Joselyn Rwebembera

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Projects & Funding

• Visiting Professorship to Address Stigma and Mental Health in Rheumatic Heart Disease American Heart Association
  2024 - 2025

Publications (15)

• Smartphone-based Detection of Group A Streptococcal Pharyngitis in Ugandan Children
  Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 2026 DOI: 10.1097/INF.0000000000005306
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• Co-Developing Strategies for Patient Engagement in Decentralized Rheumatic Heart Disease Care: Lessons from Northern Uganda
  Global Heart 2026 DOI: 10.5334/gh.1568
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• Impact of Secondary Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Latent Rheumatic Heart Disease Over 5 Years
  Anneke C Grobler, Joselyn Rwebembera, Andrea Beaton

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  • Emma Ndagire
  • Emmy Okello
  • Jafesi Pulle
  • Craig Sable
  • Rachel Sarnacki
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  Journal of the American Heart Association 2026 DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.125.049544
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• Implementation and evaluation of a pragmatic community streptococcal treatment programme to improve rheumatic heart disease primary prevention in Uganda
  BMJ Global Health 2026 DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2024-018791
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• Community co-design of contextually relevant rheumatic heart disease primary prevention
  BMJ Global Health 2025 DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2025-019733
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• Short-Course Secondary Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Children With Screen-Detected Mild Rheumatic Heart Disease
  Circulation 2025 DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.125.074969
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• End-User Experience of the 2012 WHF Echocardiographic Criteria for Diagnosis of Rheumatic Heart Disease: A Global Survey
  Global Heart 2025 DOI: 10.5334/gh.1388
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• Intramuscular versus enteral penicillin prophylaxis to prevent progression of rheumatic heart disease: Study protocol for a noninferiority randomized trial (the GOALIE trial)
  American Heart Journal 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2024.05.012
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• Author Correction: 2023 World Heart Federation guidelines for the echocardiographic diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease
  Nature Reviews Cardiology 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41569-024-01018-w
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• 2023 World Heart Federation guidelines for the echocardiographic diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease
  Joselyn Rwebembera, James Marangou, Julius Chacha Mwita +26 more
  Nature Reviews Cardiology 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41569-023-00940-9
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• User‐Centered Design to Develop Automated Short Message Service Messaging for Patient Support of Rheumatic Heart Disease Secondary Antibiotic Prophylaxis
  Journal of the American Heart Association 2024 DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.123.031252
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• Using Artificial Intelligence for Rheumatic Heart Disease Detection by Echocardiography: Focus on Mitral Regurgitation
  Kelsey Brown, Pooneh Roshanitabrizi, Joselyn Rwebembera

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  • Emmy Okello
  • Andrea Beaton
  • Marius George Linguraru
  • Craig Sable
  Journal of the American Heart Association 2024 DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.123.031257
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• Clinical Profile and Outcomes of Rheumatic Heart Disease Patients Undergoing Surgical Valve Procedures in Uganda
  Global Heart 2023 DOI: 10.5334/gh.1260
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• Refining Risk Stratification Among Children With Latent Rheumatic Heart Disease
  Andrea Beaton, Emmy Okello, Joselyn Rwebembera +19 more
  Circulation 2023 DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.063194
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• Prevalence and characteristics of primary left-sided valve disease in a cohort of 15,000 patients undergoing echocardiography studies in a tertiary hospital in Uganda
  BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2018 DOI: 10.1186/s12872-018-0813-5
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