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Prof Daynia Ballot
Daynia Ballot obtained her MBBCH from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in 1982, followed by a PhD from the same institution in 1989.
Dr Nicolette Brown
Nicolette Brown is a neonatologist currently working at General Justice Gizenga Mpanza Regional Hospital in Northern KZN.
Dr Pinky Chirwa
She trained as a medical doctor at MEDUNSA and completed her internship at Garankuwa Hospital in 1991.
Prof Mike Harrison
Michael completed his undergraduate training at the University of Cape Town, leaving a few years later for the United Kingdom. The trip lasted seventeen years, a lot longer than originally planned.
Prof Alan Horn
Alan is the founding past president of USANA. He has been a neonatologist at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town since obtaining Cert Neonatology in 2003.
Dr Gugu Kali
Gugu Kali is the head of neonatology at Stellenbosch University/Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.
Dr Hannelie Kemp
Dr Hannelie Kemp is a registered dietitian with experience in both clinical nutrition and lecturing. She has more than 20 years’ experience working in tertiary academic hospitals, mostly working in Paediatric and Neonatal wards.
Dr Lizel Lloyd
Lizel Lloyd is a neonatologist and researcher dedicated to reducing neonatal mortality and infections. She completed her undergraduate and postgraduate training at the University of Pretoria and has been a consultant neonatologist at Tygerberg Hospital for the last ten years.
Dr Mantoa Mokhachane
Director of the Unit of Undergraduate Medical Education at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg since 2020. She worked as a neonatologist at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital Neonatal Unit for 18 years prior to branching into Medical Education.
Dr Firdosa Nakwa
Firdose Nakwa is a Neonatologist at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital. She is a Witsie having completed all her training, both undergraduate and postgraduate at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Dr Phumza Nongena
Phumza is an experienced paediatrician & neonatologist with a passion for neonatal service provision across all levels of healthcare specifically the interaction between hospital and community based neonatal health conditions.
Dr Shakti Pillay
Shakti is a neonatologist in the Division of Neonatal Medicine at Groote Schuur Hospital. Her research interests are focused on congenital infections, and neurology particularly babies with hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy and use of therapeutic hypothermia in low middle income countries.
Dr Radhika Singh
Dr Radhika Singh is a Neonatologist and the head of the clinical unit at Victoria Mxenge Hospital. She also serves as an honorary lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Prof Sithembiso Velaphi
Prof Sithembiso Velaphi is a practising neonatologist and Head of the Department of Paediatrics at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, which is affiliated with the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.