A physician specializing in geriatrics and internal medicine in Britain, Bacete Bwogo was an ICWA fellow examining primary health care systems in Cuba, Costa Rica, Kerala State in India and the Bronx in New York from 1992 to 1995. After earning a bachelor’s degree in medicine from Egypt’s Alexandria University, he completed an internship at Khartoum North Teaching Hospital in Sudan and began work for Sudanaid, a local non-governmental agency providing medical services to refugees on the Red Sea coast, as well as St. Jude Hospital in Saint Lucia, and helped establish the acute frailty services unit at Maidstone Hospital in West Kent, where he worked as the clinical lead. He obtained the diploma of the Royal College of Physicians (UK) in 2006, and he serves as a member of the British Medical Association, British Geriatric Society and Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom. Bacete is also a musician and founder of the group Nile Star Friends Forever in his native South Sudan, with plans to open a music school with a mission to advance peace and national reconciliation.
