Tina Wessels

A/Prof Tina-Marié Wessels holds a MSc(Med) in Genetic Counselling and a PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand. She worked as a genetic counsellor in the department of Human Genetics at the University of the Witwatersrand and then briefly joined the National department of Health in South Africa. 

She returned to the University of the Witwatersrand and the National Health Laboratory Service in 2001 where she was the course convener of the MSc(Med) Genetic Counselling course from 2001 to 2013. She is currently the course convener of the MMedSc in Genetic Counselling at the Division of Human Genetics at the University of Cape Town.  As a Genetic counsellor she sees patients at Groote Schuur and Red Cross Children’s Hospital. Her main role however is the training of Genetic Counsellors. 

In addition, she is involved in research and teaching to undergraduate and post graduate students. She has a special interest in the communication aspects of genetic counselling, predictive testing, prenatal counselling and aspects around training of Genetic Counsellors and education in Genetics and Genomics.