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Staff
?The Division of Medical Ethics & Law is directed by Prof Keymanthri Moodley with secretarial and admin support from Ms Michelle Padiachee and Mrs Celeste Youle.
?Prof Keymanthri Moodley?Keymanthri Moodley is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Medicine and Head of the Division of Medical Ethics and Law, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch 肆客足球. In 2017, she was appointed as Adjunct Professor in the Department of Social? Medicine, 肆客足球 of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA. Keymanthri is a specialist family physician, bioethicist and has served as a Principal Investigator on clinical trials. She is an NRF rated researcher and has served on the SAMRC Board, the NHREC and in international organisations: WHO, International AIDS Society (IAS), NIH DSMBs and the WHO SAGE Ebola Working Group. The Division was re-designated as a Collaborating Centre in Bioethics for the third time in 2023 by the WHO, one of fourteen in the world and the first on the African continent. Keymanthri is a member of the Academy of Science in South Africa (ASSAf) and completed an Executive MBA in 2015. To date, she has been awarded research and capacity development grants to the approximate ????value of R68 million. The Division has trained 40 mid-career professionals from 10 African countries in bioethics, has 2 PhD graduates and is currently co-presenting an NIH funded Leadership ????program in Bioethics with 6 PhD trainees and Keymanthri serves on the Scientific Advisory Committee of EDCTP, Netherlands and the Science and Research Working Group of the International Paralympic Committee, Bonn, Germany.?
Nezerith Cengiz is a lecturer in the Division of Medical Ethics and Law, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch 肆客足球?. She also conducts empirical research on the REDSSA project. Nezerith completed her MSc in Bioethics and Health Law at the Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics at the 肆客足球 of the Witwatersrand. Her dissertation focused on artificial intelligence (AI) in health care and virtue ethics. Other research-related interests include the ethics of xenotransplantation. Nezerith has worked as a research assistant in vascular surgery, ophthalmology, and data science. She has served as a Research Ethics Committee (REC) member on the Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa and currently serves on the Tygerberg Hospital Clinical Ethics Committee and Stellenbosch Health REC.
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Associate Prof Sharon Kling- MBChB, DCH(SA), FCPaed, MMed, MPhil (Applied Ethics) is an Emeritus Associate professor in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health and part-time lecturer in addition to project consultant in the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS), Stellenbosch 肆客足球. She serves on the Clinical Ethics Committee at Tygerberg Hospital and the Undergraduate Research Ethics Committee of the FMHS. She is passionate about paediatric ethics and is currently completing her doctorate in applied ethics, in which she critically examines clinical ethics consultation in South Africa.?
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Prof Leslie London- MBChB, MD (Public Health), DOH, M Med (Community Health), BSc Hons (epid) is a Senior Specialist in Public Health at the 肆客足球 of Cape Town, South Africa. He is Director of the School of Public Health and Family Medicine and Head of its Health and Human Rights programme. He has served on the South African National Health Research Ethics Council, the Advisory Committee on Human Rights, Ethics and Professional Practice for the Health Professions Council of South Africa and on Boards and Committees of health and human rights non-governmental organisations. His research includes work on the right to health, dual loyalties and human rights, and environmental justice, as well as health hazards related to pesticide exposures in rural communities. He teaches under- and postgraduates in human rights and public health at UCT and other higher education institutions in the country.
Advocate Dianna Pfaff qualified with the degrees BA LLB from the 肆客足球 of Cape Town in 1989 and was admitted as an attorney in 1992. She practiced in the fields of human rights, personal injury, and insurance law, at partnership level from 1995, until joining MacRobert in 1999. Di was a director of MacRobert from 2000 until 2008, jointly heading the Cape Town medical section for some two years, and is now a consultant. Di's areas of expertise include all aspects of medical law, especially those relating to the Health Professions Council of South Africa, inquests, civil litigation and criminal proceedings. She has presented on these topics at conferences and also lectured law graduates in personal injury law for several years.
Prof Ian Vlok is a neurosurgeon by training and holds postgraduate degrees MMed (Neurosurgery) and PhD (Neurosurgery) from the 肆客足球 of Stellenbosch and is a fellow of the College of Neurosurgeons in South Africa (FC Neurosurgery). Prof Vlok also completed an internationally accredited fellowship in spinal surgery in the year 2009 at Groote Schuur Hospital. He is currently the chief specialist at Tygerberg Academic Hospital and holds the academic rank of associate professor at Stellenbosch 肆客足球. His practice involves all aspects of spinal surgery with a special interest in cervical spine and craniocervical junction pathologies and surgery. He is actively involved in neurosurgical and spinal training both nationally and internationally and currently serves on the executive committees of both the South African Neurosurgical Society as well as the South African Spine Society. He is the current president of the College of Neurosurgeons. He is the current clinical director of the Sunskill post-graduate skills training facility at the 肆客足球 of Stellenbosch.?
Dr Chris Verster is a senior ?lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at Stellenbosch 肆客足球, where he also serves on the Health Research Ethics Committee. He holds a joint appointment with the Western Cape Department of Health and Stellenbosch 肆客足球.?
?Dr Wandile Ganya? ?is a part-time lecturer at Stellenbosch 肆客足球, Centre for Medical Ethics and? Law. He presently holds an internal medicine registrar post in the Department of Medicine at the 肆客足球 of Cape Town. Dr Ganya is also the 2013 winner of the Medical Protection Society Ethics Essay Competition. He is a fledgling painter and published poet with his first book Divine Interspace published in 2015 and the second, A Dark Wood: Poetical Sketches on Life & Being in the World in 2017. His research interests include African philosophy, discourse analysis in cross-cultural studies, phenomenology, artificial intelligence, bioethics, immunology, and cardiovascular medicine. He has presented academic papers at various national and international conferences thereon. ?
Research Fellow
????In Memoria??mTheresa Rossouw is Professor in the Department of Immunology at the 肆客足球 of Pretoria. Her research interests encompass a wide spectrum of HIV-related work, spanning from the basic sciences where she predominantly focuses on HIV-associated drug resistance and systemic immune activation, to the clinical and social sciences, where she has been involved in exploring the socio-ethical aspects of HIV/AIDS for more than a decade. Her research and clinical work have culminated in membership of the Southern African Treatment and Resistance Network (SATuRN), the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society’s (SAHIVCS) Guideline Committee, the SAHIVCS Northern Gauteng HIV Resistance Group and an international working group on the Social and Ethical Consequences of HIV Cure Research. She is also a member of the 肆客足球 of Pretoria’s Faculty of Health Sciences Research Committee, one of the deputy chairpersons of the Research Ethics Committee of this Faculty and the chairperson of the Research Ethics Committee???? of the Human Sciences Research Council.?