First Quarter Highlights
Intro paragraph for the recap to the first quarter of the year 2023. We want to share our achievements, success and stories with you. Click on the title to take you to the section.
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Graduation March 2023
March Graduation 2023
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Staff Appointments
Congratulations to the following
Associate Professor Clint Hendrikse
Head: Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Family, Community and Emergency Care as of 1 January 2023.
Dr Shamila Manie
Head: Division of Physiotherapy, Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences as of 23 January 2023.
Dr Lucretia Petersen
Head: Division of Communication Sciences, Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, as of 16 February 2023.
Nondumiso Khanyile
Academic Administration: Postgraduate Manager as of 6 March 2023.
Associate Professor Wiedaad Slemming
Director: Children's Institute as of 1 April 2023
Faculty Highlights
Advancing leadership in Global Surgery
A special event was held to welcome new delegates to the Executive Leadership in Global Surgery programme – a cross-collaboration between the UCT Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB) and the Global Surgery Division in the Faculty.
Kidney transplant
The first incompatible kidney transplant in Africa using the Glycosorb technique - where the donor and recipient's blood type don't match - was performed at Groote Schuur hospital in Cape Town.
Mayosi’s legacy a gift to UCT
Professor Salim Abdool Karim, the director of the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, delivered the fourth annual Bongani Mayosi Memorial Lecture at a gala dinner event held to honour the late Professor Mayosi on the anniversary of his birthday.
‘If it’s not a calling, find another job’
“Yours is not a profession but a calling because you are dealing with human life, human emotion, human dignity and human suffering – and that’s an ethical issue,” Gift of the Givers’ Dr Imtiaz Sooliman told returning second-, third- and fourth-year physiotherapy students at a welcome event on 3 February.
SHAWCO: Celebrating 80 years
“So, it was on one cold and windy night in mid-July in 1943 that this small group of students went in, and on that night, eight patients came. The clinic had started.” These are the words attributed to SHAWCO founder, Andrew Kinnear, during the celebration of the 80-year milestone of Africa’s largest student-led non-profit organisation.
Inspiring PhD grad, Nafisa Mayat
Nafisa Mayat’s doctoral thesis examines the inclusion of people with disabilities in the Muslim community and within Islam. She graduated with a PhD in Disability Studies through the Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences during the recent graduation season.
Achievements
Petrus de Vries bags two global mental health awards
Professor Petrus de Vries has received two prestigious international awards for his relentless research and capacity-building efforts in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health. Professor de Vries is the head of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health. He recently received the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ (RCPsych) inaugural Psychiatric Global Health Contributor of the Year award for 2022. The RCPsych is a professional body in the United Kingdom, responsible for education, training and setting and raising standards in psychiatry.
SAMRC Gold Award
Congratulations to Professor Sharon Prince, Professor in Cell Biology and Head of the UCT Department of Human Biology on being awarded the South African Medical Research Council’s Gold Award for her substantial and influential contribution to health, especially in low-and middle income countries.
SAMRC Silver Award
Congratulations to Dr Muki Shey, Chief Research Officer in the Department of Medicine and associate member of the IDM, on being awarded the South African Medical Research Council's Silver Award for his outstanding scientific contributions to health research.
Professor Ernesta Meintjes inducted as Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Professor Ernesta Meintjes was inducted as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Election to the AIMBE College of Fellows is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to a medical and biological engineer. The College of Fellows is comprised of the top two percent of medical and biological engineers.
The Mayosi Impilo Bursary Fund
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