Paul D'Arbela

Paul George D'Arbela is a Ugandan physician, cardiologist, academic, and medical researcher. According to a 2008 published report, he is a professor of medicine and the dean of postgraduate studies at the Mother Kevin Postgraduate Medical School, based at St. Francis Hospital Nsambya in Nsambya, a neighborhood in Kampala.

Education D'Arbela was educated at Namilyango Junior School from P1 to P4. He attended St. Peter's School Nsambya for P5. He transferred to Nkokonjeru Primary School in the middle of P5. The following year, he was moved to Jinja, where he skipped P6. He attended P7 and P8 at Jinja College.

In 1951, he was admitted to St. Mary's College Kisubi, for his secondary school education, from S1 to S6. While at Kisubi, he resided in Lourdel Hall. From Kisubi, he entered Makerere University Medical School to study medicine in 1957. He graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree in 1962.

He later went to London, England, for further studies at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School and at Hammersmith Hospital. While there, he became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom, specializing in cardiology. Later, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He has published the finding of his research in numerous medical journals and other peer publications. He was appointed professor of medicine and dean of postgraduate studies at the Uganda Martyrs University School of Medicine in 2010.

Family On 14 November 1970, Paul D'Arbela married Maria Vera Kangoggo Samali Muliira (1946 - 2019), a social worker with whom he fathered seven children.