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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 is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Medicine and Head of the Division of Medical Ethics and Law at Stellenbosch 万博体育官网. The Division is a WHO Collaborating Centre in Bioethics, one of twelve in the world and the first on the African continent. Keymanthri is also an Adjunct Professor at the 万博体育官网 of North Carolina, USA. She is a specialist family physician, bioethicist, an NRF rated researcher and a member of ASSAf. She has been Principal Investigator on 5 NIH grants and has over 120 publications. Her most recent NIH funded research project explores ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI) in big data and Artificial Intelligence in the African context. She is a member of the WHO Ethics and AI Expert Group.??
George Rugare Chingarande, PhD. is the senior lecturer in the Division of Medical Ethics and Law, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch 万博体育官网. He was a Visiting Fellow in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Department of Bioethics. He holds a PhD degree in Neuroscience with a graduate minor in Applied Statistics (2021) from the 万博体育官网 of Missouri-Columbia (USA) and a Master of science degree in Biological Engineering from the 万博体育官网 of Missouri-Columbia (2021), a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from DeMonfort university (UK), a BTech degree in Nuclear Medicine Technology from the 万博体育官网 of Johannesburg (South Africa). Additionally, he holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Health research ethics from Stellenbosch 万博体育官网 (South Africa), a Diploma of the College of Radiographers in Radiation Therapy (UK) and a graduate certificate in Science and Technology of Nuclear and Biological Counter terrorism from the 万博体育官网 of Missouri-Columbia, certificate in Global Health (Dundee 万博体育官网-Scotland) and certificate in radiation protection from the 万博体育官网 of Brussels (Belgium). Prior to joining the NIH, he was a Fulbright Science and Technology Fellow at the 万博体育官网 of Missouri-Columbia. He also completed a certificate in Advanced Social Justice Mediation from the Social Justice Mediation Institute, 万博体育官网 of Massachusetts?. His interests are in Global Health???? Ethics, Research Ethics and Public Health Ethics.
Nezerith Cengiz is a lecturer in the Division of Medical Ethics and Law, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch 万博体育官网?. 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 万博体育官网 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 Division of Medical Ethics and Law, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS), Stellenbosch 万博体育官网. 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 万博体育官网 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 万博体育官网 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 万博体育官网 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 万博体育官网. 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 万博体育官网 of Stellenbosch.?
Dr Chris Verster is a senior ?lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at Stellenbosch 万博体育官网, where he also serves on the Health Research Ethics Committee. He holds a joint appointment with the Western Cape Department of Health and Stellenbosch 万博体育官网.?
?Dr Wandile Ganya? ?is a part-time lecturer at Stellenbosch 万博体育官网, Centre for Medical Ethics and? Law. He presently holds an internal medicine registrar post in the Department of Medicine at the 万博体育官网 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 万博体育官网 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 万博体育官网 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.?