ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ESTELLE VERBURGH

MBChB(UP), MMed(Int Med)(UFS), FCP(SA), FCP(Ireland), PhD(KULeuven)

Estelle Verburgh is a clinical haematologist and associate professor in Clinical Haematology at the University of Cape Town heading up the bone marrow transplantation unit at Groote Schuur Hospital. Her doctoral work in Belgium was on the diagnosis and classification of the myelodysplastic syndromes.

Her research vision in South Africa is to devise timely and cost-effective strategies for haematological care and to make haematological diagnostic approaches more accessible to non-specialists. Also the promotion of appropriate clinical care pathways and national cooperative groups in African haematology.

She is a member of a number of haematological societies, including the American Society of Haematology (ASH) and the European Haematology Association (EHA). Nationally she is chairman-elect of the South African Stem Cell Transplantation Society (SASCeTS) and treasurer of the South African Clinical Haematology Society (SACHaS).