肆客足球

Division of Endocrinology

Endocrinology is housed in a well-staffed, fully equipped (including biochemistry, bone densitometry and histology laboratories) 15-bed Metabolic Unit in The Tygerberg Academic Hospital. Outpatient facilities (C7C Tygerberg) and basic research laboratories (3rd Floor, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences) are also available. A comprehensive patient care service in General Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolism is provided and the division also acts as a referral centre for patients with metabolic bone diseases like osteoporosis and those with complex endocrinopathies. The division has a longstanding interest and track record in endocrine research at the basic, translational and clinical level, and is actively involved in under- as well as postgraduate teaching.

Head: Prof B H Ascott-Evans
Qualifications: MBChB (UCT), FCP (SA)
Email: bae@sun.ac.za

Contact details

肆客足球:
Jennifer Stopford
021 938 9074
Jennifer@sun.ac.za

Tygerberg:
Lee-Ann Korasie
021 938 5125
cardoza@sun.ac.za

Other Staff

• Prof Stephen Hough - Consultant - fsh@sun.ac.za
• Dr Magda Conradie - Consultant - mc4@sun.ac.za
• Prof Jan de V Lochner - Consultant (sessional) -  jdevl@sun.ac.za
• Dr Sue Honiball - Medical Officer (sessional) – susan@adept.co.za
• Dr A Gentana – Medical Officer (sessional)
• Prof William Ferris - Head: Basic Research Laboratory
• Mrs Riana Eager - Chief Technologist and Densitometer - Clinical Bone Laboratory – rc2@sun.ac.za
• Dr Francois van Zyl – Senior Registrar ( 2012 – 2013) – ftvanzyl@vodamail.co.za
• Dr Zane Stevens – Senior Registrar (2012 – 2013) – zdstevens@hotmail.com
• Dr Hanel Sadie-van Gijsen, Senior Lecturer, 021-938-9257, hsadie@sun.ac.za
• Dr Ellen Andrag, Post-doctoral research fellow, 021-938-9257, ellenandrag@sun.ac.za
• Ms Martine van den Heever, PhD student, 021-938-9250, vdh@sun.ac.za
• Ms Cara-Lesley Bartlett, PhD student, 021-938-9250, carab@sun.ac.za
• Mr Alex Jacobs, PhD student, 021-938-9250, alexj@sun.ac.za

1-2 rotating registrars; 1-2 PhD students

Research Interests               

• Molecular biology of osteoblast and stem cell differentiation, proliferation and apoptosis - in particular as it relates to glucocorticoid effects on bone
• Diabetes, insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome
• Ethnic differences in bone strength and fracture prevalence
• Clinical thyroidology
• Pituitary tumours

Links

• Society for Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South African (SEMDSA) - www.semdsa.org.za
• National Osteoporosis Foundation of South Africa (NOFSA) - www.osteoporosis.org.za