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Dr. Samuel Kalibala
Our clinical team is led by Dr. Samuel Kalibala, a highly experienced medical doctor and general practitioner with specialized training in Behavioral Health and Lifestyle Medicine. Dr. Kalibala earned his MBChB from Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Behavioral Health from Montgomery College in Maryland, where he completed 150 hours of practicum as a Behavioral Health Analyst. He also brings expertise in preventive and holistic care through a Certificate in Lifestyle and Wellness Coaching from Harvard Medical School. With this comprehensive training, Dr. Kalibala integrates evidence-based medicine, behavioral health principles, and lifestyle coaching to deliver whole-person primary care. eadership & Approach to Care Dr. Kalibala leads a dedicated team of doctors, clinical officers, nurses, and counselors who share his commitment to holistic, patient-centered care. Together, they focus on helping clients prevent, manage, and treat lifestyle-related conditions such as: Diabetes Overweight & obesity High blood pressure Stress-related and behavioral health concerns The team emphasizes empowering patients to take an active role in their health. This includes teaching self-monitoring skills using tools many clients already have at home—such as blood glucose monitors, blood pressure cuffs, and weighing scales. A Partnership for Better Health At our clinic, the patient is the leader of the care team. We partner with you to: Define your personal health goals Identify your strengths, motivations, and support systems Create realistic, sustainable plans for diet, exercise, and behavior change Navigate challenges with ongoing support and encouragement For example, if your goal is to lose 2 kilograms per week, we work alongside you to explore nutrition options, physical activity strategies, and lifestyle adjustments to help you succeed—one step at a time.
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Questions and Answers About Wellness
It is about being well in the body, our thoughts, feelings, our brain and our spirituality. It involves making personal choices and practices such as: • regular exercise • good nutrition • good sleep • good health care seeking when ill • good adherence to treatments when put on treatment • good social connections • good stress management, including: avoidance of unnecessary stress, unnecessary arguments, and unnecessary conflicts finding good coping mechanisms such as spirituality, games, sports, friends, while avoiding poor coping mechanisms such as abuse of alcohol and drugs, violence, etc
Identifying and strengthening behaviors that keep us healthy, such as: • regular physical activity • regular health checks Identifying and addressing behaviors or habits that affect our health, such as: • behaviors that expose us to infectious diseases, e.g., poor hygiene • behaviors that make our own bodies generate ill health, e.g., a stressful activity such as arguing can cause high blood pressure
Non-judgmental conversations to empower a client to: • Identify and set personal goals in their social, emotional, and physical health areas • Supporting clients to create personalized plans based on their values and strengths • Motivating clients to build confidence to take action and score on these goals
Conversations with clients to examine how they can: • improve their physical and social environment • enhance their positive personal habits while discouraging their negative ones • personally enrich themselves by gaining a sense of being valued • practice self-kindness
Yes, often one needs a personalized approach that can identify and help the clients to examine options for: • addressing emotional and behavioral issues that trigger weight problems • dietary strategies • physical activity
Lifestyle health issues include chronic diseases like: • heart disease • diabetes • some cancers, such as lung cancer and cancer of the liver • obesity • high blood pressure • mental health conditions like anxiety and depression. These diseases are linked to unhealthy habits such as: • a poor diet • lack of physical activity • smoking • excessive alcohol consumption. These problems are often preventable or manageable by adopting healthier lifestyle choices. Stress and cancer progression or recurrence: “Stress can wreak havoc in many ways. The body’s natural stress response, designed to protect it from perceived threats, can stay on when it shouldn’t. This can happen for many reasons, including trauma and other stressors. The long-term activation of the stress response system and the overexposure to stress hormones can disrupt almost all your body’s processes, and some research suggests there could be a link between stress hormones and cancer progression and recurrence.”
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Akamwesi Complex, Ground Floor, Office 18, Nakawa, Kampala
