Emeritus Assoc Prof Sebastiana Zimba Kalula

BSc MBChB (Zambia), FRCP (UK), MMed, MPhil, PhD (Cape Town), FRCP (London)

Sebastiana Zimba Kalula is a physician specialist in Geriatric Medicine and the Director of the Albertina & Walter Sisulu Institute of Ageing in Africa (IAA) at the University of Cape Town (UCT). She headed the Division of UCT Geriatric Medicine from 2001 to 2010 and is the course convenor for the MPhil programme in Geriatric Medicine.

Apart from clinical service and teaching responsibilities, she manages a focused and expanding research programme on functioning and health care at the IAA. Her current research interests are i) falls in older persons, ii) physical and cognitive functioning, and iii) the epidemiology and management of dementia.

Kalula is the Co-Director of the International Longevity Centre – South Africa (ILCSA). She is a member of the African Research on Ageing Network (AFRAN), the Global Aging Research Network (GARN), the South African Geriatrics Society (SAGS) and the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG).