TheCATHARTIC ALUMNI MAGAZINE | FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES | 2008 Striving for health excellence Contents 2008 has been an eventful year in South students of this university have enjoyed Africa, with significant impact on our over decades. Our initial impressions are Features Faculty. The “xenophobic” crisis resulted that the fit between curriculum content From Greece … to Rhodesia … to South in widespread health challenges and the and its products, on the one hand, and the Africa … to the USA … and back to SA, civil society response in this region was led requirements of the healthcare delivery with love ______2 to a large measure by our students in system, on the other, is good. And UCT climbs world rankings ______3 Installation of new VC ______4 SHAWCO. And on both the provincial evidence that quality of our training has On the move ______4 and national political front, a change in improved is borne out in the high levels of Major Milestones at Groote Schuur ____6 health ministers brings new opportunities academic achievement by our students. 30 years of the Medical 10 Race______9 for constructive engagement and Research remains firmly on the collaboration with the public health Faculty’s agenda and we now boast 20 Faculty News system. Throughout, the Faculty of Health research units and groups. In addition, six Noakes receives Order of Mapungubwe Sciences has maintained an of SA’s A-rated scientists from President Kgalema Motlanthe____5 even keel and has continued are in the Faculty; and of New cardiovascular genetics to teach and support South the 51 National Research laboratory ______5 Africa’s future health care Foundation chairs UCT man leads international asthma group ______7 practitioners with the level awarded in 2007, eight are Prof Vanessa Burch notches up a of excellence which has in our faculty. In recent first______7 been our hallmark for years, there has been an June 2008—a bumper crop of PhDs____8 almost a century. exponential increase in A celebration of Our commitment to Dean, Professor Marian Jacobs. the numbers of PhD and Solms wins top prize ______11 improving health care and Masters graduates, and Gillian is our “Brain of Brains”______13 strengthening health systems in the there is a growing interest in our Honours

region, the country and across the African programmes, which serves as a taproot for Inaugural lectures continent remains firm and is amply further research development. While Diane McIntyre, Alastair Millar, Anna- illustrated by several new initiatives. maintaining our tradition of research Lise Williamson, Alan Morris ______14 Across the Faculty, academic staff enjoy excellence, we continue to enjoy Publications research partnerships and collaboration international recognition in areas which For the love of the written word _____15 with counterparts in almost every country range from genomics and vaccine The slave has overcome—autobiography in Sub Saharan Africa and support for development at the bench, to clinical by William Pick ______15 strengthening capacity for clinical service research and epidemiological studies in and institutions takes various forms. These the field. Reunions and Alumni News include provision of clinical fellowships Transformation within the student In Memorium ______8 for African specialist clinicians, direct and staff bodies has proceeded apace, but Three generations of doctors ______9 involvement in curriculum development more than that, a great deal of effort has UCT alumna heads way, way down and teaching methods, and – most recently gone into the transformation of the under … all the way to Antarctica____10 Alumnus’ minimally invasive chest - a partnership with the national and faculty’s culture and its practices. op performed in SA______11 provincial departments of health to We continue to practice the same high UCT memorabilia: on Main Road and provide support for the efforts of the academic standards that have on-line ______11 Namibian Ministry of Health to establish a characterised this faculty since its Baxter girls get together for 50th cardiac unit in that country. inception and in so doing, we remain one reunion ______12 We have successfully transformed our of the leading health science institutions Hayden wins Prix Galien Canada for curriculum to meet the changing health on the continent, It is our hope that you Work on Huntington’s ______12 needs of the people of our country and to not only share our pride in our School mates stage special reunion ___13 fit the vision of the ministry of health’s achievements, but that you can continue Reunions ______16 priorities for healthcare. Our new to hold your head high as a graduate of

the University of Cape Town’s Health Where are they now? curriculum is proving its capacity to Sciences Faculty. News of old friends and colleagues ___20 maintain the levels of excellence that TheCATHARTIC FEATURE

From Greece … to Rhodesia … to South Africa … to the USA … and back to SA, with love

Three medical careers have kept Dr John Brownstone enjoying life after a later- than-usual start as an “FOF”

By Helen Théron

Dr John Brownstone (MBChB 1963) has a favourite saying. Make that two. The first is about attitude: “Try and try again.” he says. “Never give up,” he adds, for good measure. The second is about vocation: “You must like what you do in life. I always did things I enjoyed.” It shows. At the time of writing, the eighty- eight years old Dr Brownstone was pre- paring for a long trip; an annual six- month sojourn to sunny California with his wife Dina. They’ve been married 61 years and though she has Alzheimers, he will not be parted from her. In their Sea Point apartment, their bags wait. Tomorrow a taxi will take them to Cape Town Inter- national and from there they begin a Dr John Brownstone. marathon journey to the States. ber kits after a bet for a bottle of whisky? started? He puts a finger to his mouth, There’s no wringing of hands at the It took six weeks for the first frame to go contemplatively. “The Germans came to prospect. Dr Brownstone is looking for- up and another three years to complete Greece when I was a student.” ward to it. The children are there, living the electrical work and plumbing. He’s referring to the war. By 1 June within half and hour of each other. And Yes, he’s single-minded. 1941, after the capture of Crete, all there are 11 grandchildren. And they It’s a quality that runs like a leitmotif Greece was under Axis occupation. have an apartment in a complex geared through his life. He talks about the 40th “I was a student at the University of to senior citizens. There’s so much to do. class reunion in 2003. Most of the class Thessaloniki, studying law and econom- “Look, I painted these, and these,” he are younger. When he came to UCT’s ics. My father, an English Jew by the says of the art on the apartment walls. medical school in 1958 he was already name of Brownstein, was married to a Three pictures hang on the partition 38 and married. Greek Jew. He advised me to get out. By wall he built when he created a new “On the first day the students gave the end of the war, I had no family to go bedroom for the carer Dina will have way, in deference. They didn’t know I back to. All had perished in camps like when they return. was a first-year student. I joked, telling Auschwitz.” Not bad for an old gent, says the them I was an FOF. They were im- It was part of near total extermina- humour in his eyes. pressed, until I explained it stood for tion of Greece’s 80 000-strong Jewish Did I know that in 1977 he built two father-of-five!” community during war. houses with his own hands? From tim- What took him so long to get When Athens fell to the Germans on 2 TheCATHARTIC

27 April 1941, Dr Brownstone was on can accent!” But mental health services were Mytilini. He fled to Istanbul, Turkey, in Without any formal English training, decentralised and patients were sent a small boat, a rough journey that lasted he went back to school in Rhodesia, home, resulting in the advent of commu- three days. studying with Cambridge-trained chem- nity clinics. In the end, Dr Brownstone was the istry and physics tutors. By 60, Brownstone needed another only Jew from his village who survived. “I’d left school 20 years before!” challenge. He left psychiatry and trained After joining the Allied war effort he The subjects were essential for medi- as an anaesthetist at Tennessee in Mem- was trained by Battle of Britain pilots cal studies he planned at UCT. With phis. “I have to like something, other- and sent to the former Rhodesia as a Dina and his young family, Dr Brown- wise I can’t do it.” flight instructor for the Royal Air Force. stone set his sights on an MBChB, gradu- Brownstone practiced anaesthesiol- With nothing to go back to he re- ating in 1963. ogy for 12 years, becoming head of de- mained in Rhodesia after the war, open- It wasn’t all study. He recalls partment in a 100-bed hospital. ing a company to grade tobacco. His moonlighting for picnics with Dina In 1977 the local newspaper Hart- father had been a banker and a tobacco when the weather was good. ford Courant carried a report on Dr merchant. This was how he gleaned his But that was just the beginning. Brownstone’s two self-built houses on knowledge about Turkish tobacco, Moving to the States, Dr Brownstone adjoining plots. smaller leafed than the Virginia-type specialised in psychiatry at Yale and “I was getting flabby,” explains the tobacco, he explains. followed up with a master’s degree in man named “Grandpa Fixit” by his Times were tough. Though he speaks public health from the same institution. grandchildren. seven languages (Greek, French, Italian, He counts among his successes a Far from retired, Dr Brownstone has Spanish, Turkish, Bulgarian and English) mental health clinic in Hartford, Con- downed building tools for the moment English was the last language he picked necticut. to teach Spanish at the University of the up. It was 1963, the year John F Ken- Third Age. He also attends Italian and “I taught myself, learning pronuncia- nedy was assassinated. Significant re- French groups for a little foreign conver- tion from American movies, watching sources were being poured into mental sation. them five times in a row, listening care- health. But for the moment there’s that trip fully to the dialogue. It explains why a “In those days the state psychiatric he and Dina have been looking forward Greek Jew spoke English with an Ameri- hospitals were huge.” to.

UCT climbs world rankings NEWS FLASH

UCT has been ranked 179th in the selves and the quality of our entire enter- Times Higher Education QS World prise on our own well-developed set of University Rankings 2008, climbing 21 criteria. This is an ongoing process aimed spots from 200th place last year. at continuously improving and strength- The Times Higher Education rank- ening our institution." ings are considered the primary bench- This year's THE-QS World Univer- mark for comparing universities across sity Rankings have reflected the increas- borders. ing value attached to technology. Many UCT was the only African univer- top technology-based universities im- sity to be listed in the top 200. It was proved their position, a fact linked to a ranked 257 in 2006. demand by international employers for Vice-Chancellor Dr Max Price said: more technology-literate graduates. "It is great that UCT rates so high. We The Top 10 was still dominated by Another striking trend was the are pleased that we are competitive in institutions from the US and UK. Har- "unprecedented" response levels to the the international higher education sec- vard University kept their top spot, with survey - 6354 academics (compared with tor." Yale moving ahead of Cambridge for the 5101 in 2007) and 2339 employers He added: "The rankings give us a second spot. Oxford dropped to fourth, (compared with 1 482 in 2007). sense of our position when measured while Princeton dropped out of the top Universities from 33 different coun- using a specific set of criteria. As an 10, replaced by the only new entrant in tries (28 countries in 2007) are repre- institution, we constantly measure our- the top 10, Columbia University. sented in this year's top 100. 3 FEATURES TheCATHARTIC On the move

Vice-Chancellor Njabulo S Ndebele and Prof Cheryl de la Rey.

UCT bid farewell to Deputy Vice- Chancellor, Prof Cheryl de la Rey, who left the University in April 2008 to take up the reins as CEO of the Council on Chancellor Mrs Graça Machel shares a light moment withVice-Chancellor, Dr Max Higher Education. Price, at his installation in Jameson Hall on 19 August 2008. New VC installed amid pomp and ceremony

Setting the tone for his term as Vice- equally committed to seeking truth." Chancellor in his installation address on He committed UCT to promoting Tuesday, 19 August 2009, Dr Max Price democracy by providing a highly skilled Prof Martin West and Vice-Chancellor mooted the creation of pro-vice- workforce educated in "thoughtful citi- Njabulo S Ndebele, graduation 2008. chancellors to lead intellectual projects of zenry". At the graduation ceremony on 13 June national importance. "This is the basis upon which UCT 2008, outgoing VC Professor Njabulo S These would include safety and secu- makes its most profound contribution to Ndebele, conferred the Vice-Chancellor's rity projects. In this regard, a pro-vice- the development and transformation of Medal on Professor Martin West, who chancellor would ensure that "... UCT our society," he said. retires from UCT at the end of 2008. brings all its intellectual resources to bear Price spoke of his vision of UCT as an on the problem of violent crime and the Afropolitan university. "The 'Afro' ele- threat it poses to our survival". ment connotes an open, assertive engage- Price was installed as UCT's ninth ment with the world from the standpoint Vice-Chancellor in the Jameson Hall, in a of Africa. It describes a growth in African ceremony attended by Minister of Educa- studies, particularly the economic soci- tion Naledi Pandor and Chancellor Graça ologies of different African countries and Machel, and graced by the musical and regions. 'Politan' suggests cosmopolitan, choral offerings of UCT's South African and signals firstly a sophisticated and College of Music. future-oriented approach to understand- In his address, Price also provided a ing Africa, as opposed to a sentimental, clear indication of his leadership style. naïve, often 'rural peasant and wildlife' "Transformative leaders value diver- view of what an African perspective is. Prof Martin Hall. sity, build self esteem, nurture talent, "Secondly, UCT will be cosmopolitan mentor, listen and respect, along with in the sense of the mix of staff and stu- Former Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Profes- the leadership they provide." dents, from Africa, Latin America, Asia sor Martin Hall has been appointed Vice- "It means that a university requires and from the North." Chancellor of Salford University in that people respect each other and give "To be a global university, UCT needs Greater Manchester, UK, and takes up his them the benefit of the doubt that all are to be an African university,” he said. new role in 2009. 4 TheCATHARTIC Noakes receives Order of Mapungubwe from President Kgalema Motlanthe Prof Tim Noakes was one of four UCT terests, including politics, the arts and staffers, past and present, who were culture. awarded National Orders by President “All expressed their support for the Kgalema Motlanthe at the Union Build- value of sport and the way in which we ings on Tuesday 28 October 2008. at UCT and the Institute have used sci- The Order of Mapungubwe is ence to help South African sport and to awarded to South African citizens for promote health and wellness for all South excellence and exceptional achievement. Africans.” National Orders are the highest awards Vice-Chancellor Dr Max Price en- that a country bestows, through its presi- dorsed the valuable contribution UCT Prof Tim Noakes on the podium. dent, on its citizens and eminent foreign academics and staff, some of them Nobel nationals. The Order of Mapungubwe in the early 1980s. It is now an acclaimed Laureates, have made to broader society, (Silver Category) was bestowed on Pro- research unit of the Medical Research both at home and internationally. fessor Tim Noakes for his excellent con- Council. “Their input has been across a wide tribution to the field of sport and the “I am extremely proud that the im- spectrum, from great literature and pio- science of physical exercise. portance of this discipline should be ac- neering medicine, to cutting-edge mathe- The Discovery Health professor of knowledged,” Noakes said. “I was over- matics and sustainable technology. exercise and sports science and a National come by the messages of congratulations “The group that received this year’s Research Foundation A-rated researcher, that I received at the ceremony from a Orders is again testimony to the span of Noakes established the fledgling Exercise broad cross-section of South Africans disciplines in which UCT scholars con- Science and Sports Medicine Unit (ESSM) from many different disciplines and in- tinue to stand out.” New Cardiovascular Genetics Laboratory Two years of planning and collaboration between the University of Pavia in Italy and the University of Cape Town (UCT) have resulted in the establishment of a joint Cardiovascular Genetics Laboratory in the Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Re- search. The opening of the new facility took place on Friday, 15 August 2008 and was the highlight of a Symposium on Cardiac Arrhythmias and Sudden Death: From Genes to Prevention, that has attracted Prof Bongani Mayosi, VC Dr Max Price, Prof Lionel Opie and Prof Peter Schwartz at experts in a spectrum of disciplines within the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Cardiovascular Genetics Laboratory. cardiology from all over the world. The goal of the Cardiovascular Genetics Vanderbilt University in the USA. This The laboratory, which is situated Laboratory is to foster research into the gives us a unique perspective that spans the within UCT’s Faculty of Health Sciences, is genetic causes of sudden cardiac death and developed and developing world – taking jointly headed up by Prof Bongani Mayosi, to find treatment strategies for the condi- the lessons learnt in the developed setting Head of UCT’s Department of Medicine tion. and applying and adapting them in a devel- and Prof Peter Schwartz, Chairman of Car- Prof Mayosi said: “One of the most oping country. diology, the University of Pavia. Collabora- exciting aspects of this project is the col- “It gives us the potential to make signifi- tors in this exciting facility are Associate laboration between the developing world, cant progress quite quickly, as much of the Prof Hanlie Moolman-Smook of Stellen- through the universities of Cape Town and groundwork has already been laid by the bosch University and Dr Al George of Van- Stellenbosch, and developed countries, experts; several of whom have been able to derbilt University in the USA. through the University of Pavia in Italy and join us for this symposium,” he added. 5 NEWS TheCATHARTIC Major milestones at Groote Schuur: 70th anniversary for the Hospital and the 40th anniversary of the first heart transplant

It’s been a big year for Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH)—not only did it celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first heart transplant on 3 December 2007, but only a few weeks later, on 31 January 2008, the hospital itself celebrated a major milestone—70 years since it was officially opened. Groote Schuur Hospital and the University of Cape Town celebrated the 40th anniversary of the first successful human-to-human heart transplant, performed by Professor Chris Barnard View of the main entrance to Groote Schuur Hospital from the Main Road. and his team on 3 December 1967, with a series of activities, including the opening of the Heart of Cape Town GSH history launched Museum. The museum, based at the hospital, There was standing room only at the committee member that he would have pays tribute to the life of Christiaan launch of a book chronicling the history his history by midnight on 31 December Barnard and documents the first heart of Groote Schuur Hospital, entitled At 2008. It was later discovered that the transplant with unsettlingly realistic the Heart of Healing, Groote Schuur comment was minuted as “the book displays. The website address is: Hospital 1938 - 2008. The event took would be released at midnight on 31 www.heartofcapetown.co.za. place on Monday, 24 November 2008 in December 2008”. Prof Phillips wryly A gala dinner held at the opening the Barnard Fuller Building of the commented: “The book has very great was attended by several South African Faculty of Health Sciences. merit, but it is not in the dignitaries. "The celebration of the 40th According to Prof Harry Potter mould!” anniversary of the heart transplant Howard Phillips, Professor At the Heart of Healing reminds us of our responsibility to in the Department of provides a new kind of ensure that our research, teaching and Historical Studies at UCT, hospital history, described service improve our quality of life, co-author of the book, as a “history in-the-round” particularly in the field of health along with Prof Anne in its inclusive coverage of sciences," said Vice-Chancellor and Digby of Oxford Brookes staff and patients. Prof Principal, Professor Njabulo S Ndebele. University, the long process Phillips points out that the Decades later, the Chris Barnard began in 2005, drawing on authors have taken Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at archived material and particular pains to show the Groote Schuur Hospital and the personal interviews, to “beauty spots and the warts” University of Cape Town continue to provide “a rich, probing in their attempts to give a perpetuate the traditions of surgical history of Groote Schuur balanced history of this excellence, patient care, teaching and Hospital, in the round and in context.” landmark hospital. In her foreword, the research. He went on to describe an incident Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, shortly after he agreed to the project, Prof Marian Jacobs, describes the history where an enthusiastic member of the of the hospital as “a microcosm of the steering committee insisted he give a history of South Africa”. publication date. Not wanting to make The book can be found at good any rash promises, he assured the bookstores or www.exclusivebooks.com. 6 TheCATHARTIC UCT man leads international asthma group

UCT's Professor of Respiratory Medicine, of GINA is dissemination Eric Bateman, has been appointed chair- and implementation, and person of the Global Initiative for the GINA asthma man- Asthma (GINA), becoming the first per- agement guidelines are son from a developing country to lead the the most widely quoted group. and used documents for GINA works with health-care profes- this condition. In their sionals and public health officials around latest revision, edited by the world to reduce asthma prevalence, Bateman, they have been morbidity and mortality. successfully simplified in Bateman, the founder of UCT's Lung the hope of ensuring Institute and head of the Division of Pul- improved care and access monology in the Department of Medi- to care for asthma suffer- cine, has been involved in GINA for the ers. The challenge in last six years, four years serving as chair implementing guidelines of the 96 country-member body's Science is to partner with govern- Committee, which develops evidence- ments health depart- based guidelines for treatment of the ments and involve the condition. In this capacity, Bateman has community at large. worked hard to improve representation "Countries do spend from developing countries and to ensure money on treating that the guidelines are global and applica- asthma but some do not ble. spend it well. We need to Prof Eric Bateman. "It's nice that we (developing coun- encourage them to adopt tries) have made it to leadership positions effective strategies and purchase effective wanted to see improved care for asthma in asthma care in the world," he said. treatments," Bateman said. He added that patients around the world in his four- An important component of the work he was "enthusiastic" about the work and year term. Prof Vanessa Burch notches up a first

Vanessa Burch is the new Professor of clinical services across the academic teach- Clinical Medicine, succeeding Professor ing platform at the Groote Schuur Hospital Solly Benatar and becoming the first teaching complex. woman to be appointed to an established She will work closely with clinical chair in the Department of Medicine's 87- staff in Level 2 hospitals in the metropole year history. and will co-ordinate all the department's Burch completed her MBChB degree undergraduate and postgraduate clinical at Wits University and her specialist train- teaching activities. ing at UCT. She was awarded a Fellowship "It is my mandate to develop staff of of the College of Physicians in 1994 and in quality and relevance, and provide leader- 1997 obtained an MMed from UCT. She ship with regard to issues of diversity, has a PhD from Erasmus University, Rot- transformation and equity," Burch added. terdam. She is also dedicated to developing the Winner of a Distinguished Teacher profile of senior women in medicine at Prof Vanessa Burch. Award in 2004, Burch now co-ordinates both teaching and clinical service levels. 7 NEWS TheCATHARTIC In Memorium ...

Dr HA Kalley and his wife, Yvonne.

The well-known and respected doctor HA Kalley has died in Pietermaritzburg aged 95. He was born in Cape Town and edu- June PhD graduates: back row, left to right: Prof Marian Jacobs (Dean), Dr Des Michaels cated at South African College School, Claasen, Dr Wendy Spearman, Mrs Adri Winckler, Dr Lucky Malaza, Dr Mark Nicol, where he was a top pupil. He then went Dr Frank Kirstein, Dr Lubbe Wiesner, Dr Sharhiedd Taliep, Dr Lauraine Vivian, Prof on to the University of Cape Town, Kit Vaughan (Deputy Dean, PG Affairs). Front row, left to right: Dr Jill Borresen, Dr where he obtained his MBChB in 1936. Yumna Albertus, Dr Lize Haveman, Dr Roshan Ebrahim. Kalley served on numerous committees. He was a founder member of Padca June 2008 — a bumper crop of PhDs (Pietermaritzburg and District Care of the Aged) and was a previous chairman The Health Sciences Faculty produced From a financial point of view, each of Lions, a member of the Antique Soci- its largest ever number of PhD graduates PhD graduate is worth approximately ety and as an enthusiastic member of the in June 2008, generating more students at R0.25 million to the Faculty in govern- Woodworkers’ Guild won numerous one ceremony than 13 of the 23 universi- ment subsidy, meaning that this graduat- prizes at the Royal Show. He was also a ties in South Africa produce in a whole ing class has a monetary value to UCT of keen gardener and skilled calligrapher. year. more than R6 million. He is predeceased by his wife and is The 26 graduates represent a significant Earning a PhD, of course, has far survived by his children Jaqui, Claudia contribution towards the country’s overall greater ramifications than merely the and Martin, and three grandchildren. output. In its recently published strategic financial. For many the degree may be plan, the National Research Foundation has considered as the next step, albeit an stated that by 2015 it would like to double important one, along the path towards a Dr Mary Elizabeth Philip passed away the number of PhD graduates. successful career in academia. recently in San Antonio, Texas, USA (1950 graduating class). In 1957, Dr TheCATHARTIC Philip settled in Knysna with her hus- band, Clifford Walsh, also a 1950 The Cathartic is published by the Faculty of Health Sciences at the MBChB graduate, where he practiced University of Cape Town. medicine for 33 years, while she contin- Contributors: ued her lifelong tuberculosis work and Chris Rainier-Pope, Katherine Traut, Helen Théron, Tina Barsby, Joan Tuff, Melanie raised their family of four. She was an Jackson, Megan Morris, Myolisi Gophe and Raymond Botha avid sailor and long-standing member of Private Bag X3, Observatory, 7935 South Africa the Knysna Yacht Club. Tel: +27 (0)21 406 6686 Fax: +27 (0)86 612 6390 She is survived by her brother, John There are many alumni for whom we do not have email addresses. Please forward this Russell Philip of Tucson, Arizona, and publication to your former classmates who may have lost touch with UCT. They can contact Joan Tuff to ensure we have their latest contact details so we can invite them to her four children, Brian (Honolulu, Ha- events and send them all the latest news about their alma mater. waii), Sandra (San Antonio, USA), Doro- Email: [email protected] thy (Perth, Australia), Elizabeth (New Zealand) and six grandchildren. 8 TheCATHARTIC 30 years of the Medical 10 race

30 November saw the 30th running of the Medical 10, a race started by a group of medical doctors - many from UCT - back in 1978. Here UCT graduate and staffer Dr Sydney Cullis gives a potted history of the event. The first staging of the Medical 10 was in 1978, and was as a result of a letter to the South African Medical Journal in June that year by Hendrik Muller, a sen- ior physician in Cape Town. He pointed The staging of the first Medical 10 race. out that a group of doctors in Finland had organised a race for medical practitioners then and still an oncologist at Groote to be funded by Warner Lambert, (which over 10km, who felt that it would add Schuur Hospital, in a time of 37 minutes after 1994 reverted to Pfizer), an entry some credence to recommending a and 5 seconds for 5 kilometres - but she fee was charged. This was donated to the healthy lifestyle to their patients if it thinks she was beaten by a runner whose Victoria Hospital to cover projects that could be shown that they practised what name was not included in the result list. were not normally covered by the hospi- they preached. The race was organised by The two organisers, Tim Noakes and J tal budget. JP van Niekerk, then deputy dean of the P van Niekerk, both managed to finish At the end of 2004 Pfizer gave up the Faculty of Medicine - later dean - and under the 40-minute barrier. sponsorship. It was taken over by Afrox now managing editor of the South Afri- In 1982 the venue was moved to the Heathcare. When Afrox sold its health- can Medical Journal, and Tim Noakes University Sports Complex in Pinelands care interests to Life Healthcare, they (then a PhD research fellow in Professor and the Pfizer Pharmaceutical company took over the sponsorship and Victoria Lionel Opie's department). Metropolitan took over the sponsorship. In 1988 Pfizer Hospital continued to receive the pro- Life Insurance Company sponsored the withdrew their sponsorship but Warner ceeds of the event - last year more than event. Lambert Pharmaceuticals took over and R19 000 was donated, which enabled It was run on 9 December at UCT, the race moved to their facility in Main them to acquire a washing machine for and was won by Bob Jamieson, then a Road, Retreat. their endoscopy unit. The race retains its radiologist in private practice and now By now it had become established as uniqueness of being run on a handicap still doing sessions at Victoria Hospital, in part of the calendar of medical events in basis, but in order to give the scratch 44 minutes and 56 seconds. (As a handi- the Western Cape, not least because of runners more chance, the handicap has cap of one minute for each year of age the amusing commentary provided by been cut from one minute to 1/2 minute over 40 was allowed, it gave him a handi- ear, nose and throat surgeon John Steer. for the over 40's. Despite this they have cap time of 32 minutes and 56 seconds.) It had now grown to over 200 runners not been able to beat their aged col- According to the results list, the fast- plus a group of walkers from the Cardiac leagues - last year it was won by 65-year- est female runner was Clare Stannard, Rehabilitation Unit. While it continued old dentist Francois Hofmeyr. Three generations of doctors

The Kaye Kerbel family in Boston, USA, celebrated a proud moment in May 2008 when Russell Kerbel graduated from Tufts Medical School. Russell is the son of Richard Kerbel (far right: UCT MBChB 1975). Richard is a Pediatrician and is on Faculty at Tufts Medical School and was therefore able to hand his son Russell (second right) his degree at the ceremony. Trevor Kaye (far left: MBChB 1973) is the brother of Brenda (née Kaye) Kerbel (second left: MBChB 1976). Russell's grandfather , Dr Solly Kaye (inset, with Russell: MBChB 1946) still practices as a GP in Cape Town. Unfortunately, he was not able to attend graduation, but Russell spent some quality time with him in Cape Town earlier in the year. 9 TheCATHARTIC UCT alumna heads way, way down under … all the way to Antarctica

It’s Friday night in the Trauma Unit at Groote Schuur Hospital and Dr Joanna Thirsk (MBChB 2005) is intent on resus- citating a young accident victim. She’s closed off to the mayhem around her. After almost a year here, she thinks on her feet. Dr Joanna Thirsk. It’s a skill she’ll need when she’s thousands of miles down south at the SANAE base in Antarctica, responsible for the welfare of the 48th winter-over group. She has also worked at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital. “There you learn big coping mechanisms,” she quips. The only woman on the skeleton team of 10, Thirsk will be away for 14 months, responsible for the mental and physical health of the group in the most inhospitable conditions imaginable. She has been preparing for some time, reading up on polar medicine and bolstering her dental, X-ray and anaes- thetics skills. The base is equipped with a fully fledged operating theatre. At 26, Thirsk is also preparing to put Thirsk knows all the stories; the Rus- mental affliction that hits most winter- her life on hold. This stint on the giant sian medic who removed his own appen- over crew. Lethargy, mood swings and ice continent will mean two Christmases dix under local anaesthetic and the doc- forgetfulness are symptoms. A lack of and a birthday away from home and tor who removed a cancerous lump from vitamin D (daylight disappears as winter family. But it’s a season that comes once. her breast. You have to be prepared. sets in) may be linked to the disorder. It’s something she has to do. She leaves on 23 December and the “I must ensure the team is kept busy In December she will join the team journey aboard the SA Agulhas is ex- and socially active.” for basic training in non-medical skills pected to take two weeks. The base will Socially active? Wares from sponsors like fire fighting and, yes, cooking. be busy then. In the summer season there like wine farms and book stores are being Thirsk will also learn to handle heavy are plenty of researchers about. After sought to add to the cache of goodies vehicles and master the basics of climb- that, they’re on their own. The return they’re taking along to add some cheer. ing and abseiling. date is March 2010. Thirsk has bought a single lens reflex “I’m not very sporty,” she says, “but “This attracts me,” she says. “I have a camera and intends teaching herself to I’ve signed up for boot camp for a keen sense of adventure. I rise to a chal- play the guitar. month.” It’s a weighty responsibility for a lenge. And the world will be waiting for She will also tend to the team’s nutri- young doctor. me when I get back.” tional health, ensure they wear the proper “The thing about Antarctica is that Emergency medicine has always in- gear to stave off frostbite and that they use you can’t evacuate anyone,” she adds, terested her and she hopes to specialise in the right equipment to maintain safety. “unlike Gough and Marion Islands where the field. At Antarctica, medical condi- “Polar medicine is a sub speciality in you can get away with having a para- tions like polar T3 syndrome (T3 is a its own right. The psychiatric component medic.” thyroid hormone), are common. It’s a is big.” Like Antarctica. 10 TheCATHARTIC Alumnus’ minimally invasive chest op performed in SA

A procedure to correct the condition sections of rib cartilage. pectus excavatum (concave chest), de- He developed a keyhole method veloped by UCT alumnus Professor Don- using an arthroscope, a probe with a ald Nuss (MBChB 1963) in the United camera attached. A metal bar is inserted States two decades ago, was performed into the patient’s chest through three in Johannesburg for the first time re- small holes. It remains in place for about cently. four years and is then surgically re- The surgeon who performed the moved under general anaesthesia as an operation, Dr Ivan Schewitz, is also an outpatient procedure. alumnus (MBChB 1974). In a recent Sunday Times interview, Concave or sunken chest is a birth Nuss, who lives in Virginia, said the fact defect that affects one in 400 children, that it had taken so long for South Afri- leaving many with psychological scars. can doctors to adopt the method came as The Nuss procedure, as it is called, is no surprise as concave chests were “rarer a minimally invasive way of correcting Dr Ivan Schewitz (right) and his team perform- in the African population”. ing the procedure. sunken chest, a condition that causes the In spite of this, at the time of writ- chest to curve inwards towards the the condition. ing, seven procedures had already been spine. Nuss developed the method as an performed in South Africa, with a fur- Until now South African surgeons alternative to the traditional way of ther six booked to take place in the near have used open-chest surgery to correct breaking the breast bone and removing future. UCT memorabilia: on Solms wins top prize Main Road and on-line Professor Mark Solms, current Chair of Neuropsychology at The UCT Campus Store is UCT's authorised on-campus UCT and Groote Schuur Hos- retailer of textbooks. They also stock a wide range pital (Departments of Psychol- of stationery, UCT clothing and gifts. ogy and Neurology) has re- They focus on catering for the needs of UCT alumni, ceived the Arnold Pfeffer students, staff and visitors and aim to provide all goods and Prize for his contribution to services required under one roof! neuropsycho-analysis. David Milrod, chair of the The UCT Campus Store on UCT’s Upper Campus offers Prof Mark Solms. a convenient shopping location and competitively-priced committee and of the New products. Together with their newly renovated store on York Psychoanalytic Institute, logical phenomenon. He has the Main Road, Atlas Books, offering the same range of described Solms as "a rare made his major contribution products as the UCT Campus Store on Upper Campus, they modern-day colossus" and a in the area of sleep and dream aim to offer their customers a more convenient shopping worthy recipient of this, the research and his previous location. Atlas Books is the ideal store for all Health most prestigious award in the honours include the 2002 Sciences Faculty customer needs. field. American Psychiatric Asso- The team at the UCT Campus Store would like to Previous award winners ciation's International Psy- extend a warm invitation to all Health Sciences Faculty are Antonio Damasio, Jaak chiatrist of the Year Award. alumni, students and staff to visit them and enjoy a unique Panksepp and Nobel Prize He is best known for his and refreshing shopping experience in their world-class winner (Physiology or Medi- discovery of the forebrain university stores. cine, 2000) Eric Kandel. mechanisms of dreaming, and Contact them via: www.atlas-group.co.za. You can also Solms' award lecture, for his pioneering integration shop online and ensure that you get what you need – even What is Repression?, outlined of psychoanalytic theories if you live abroad! the brain mechanisms under- and methods with those of pinning this pivotal psycho- modern neuroscience. 11 TheCATHARTIC Baxter girls get together for 50th reunion

Over 180 UCT women spanning five decades of the university's history re- turned to campus to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Baxter Hall Residence over the weekend of 25-26 July, 2008. As Pauline Alexander (1969) noted, "It was the feel of the familiar half-steps of the wooden staircases that lead up to the Dining Room & Common Room that was the first trigger of memories, and the weekend just went on an upward trajec- tory from there!" Alumni were welcomed by Vice- Chancellor Dr Max Price on Friday after- noon. The programme included high- lights of UCT's history in the period since Baxter's opening in 1958 from the Regis- trar, Hugh Amoore, and Law Dean Hugh Corder's call to get back into the trenches and fight for South Africa's great Consti- tution, as well as talks and performances by alumni and from the UCT School of Baxter Hall's founding warden, Mrs Joan van den Ende, with UCT Vice-Chancellor Dr Dance. On Friday night, alumni attended Max Price. "Cissie", a play about the life of Cissie Howard Phillips. The Reunion con- ing toast: Gool, written by UCT alumna, Nadia cluded with a formal dinner in Baxter's When everyone else is sitting down, Davids. Dining Room. Alumni from each of the may Baxter girls be standing Saturday's activities began with an five decades represented offered remi- When everyone else is standing, may early rise for those walking up to Rhodes niscences from their days in res, while Baxter girls be outstanding. Memorial, followed by a guided tour of Ruvi Pariranyetwa, current Head Stu- And when everyone else is outstanding, UCT's main campus led by historian, dent of Baxter Hall, proposed the follow- may Baxter girls have set the standard! Hayden wins Prix Galien Canada for work on Huntington’s

UCT alumnus Professor Michael Hay- ease and diabetes. Recently, he pro- den has received the prestigious 2007 vided the first evidence of a cure for Prix Galien Canada, dubbed the Oscar Huntington's disease. of the pharmaceutical and biotechnol- "I feel like a student just starting ogy world. out," he is quoted in a recent article in Hayden, now a professor of medical the newspaper Vancouver Sun. "There genetics at the University of British are so many things yet to be discov- Columbia in Vancouver, won the acco- ered.” lade for his "pioneering, ground- Hayden, a multi-award winning breaking" medical research. student, graduated from UCT with a The Cape Town-born geneticist medical degree in 1975 and a PhD in pioneered the development of predic- Prof Michael Hayden. genetics in 1979. He is currently tive testing for Huntington's disease, a pharmaceutical companies, helped deter- spearheading a fundraising campaign rare inherited neurological disorder. mine how specific genes lead to the disease, to build a centre for at-risk youth in Hayden, who co-founded three as well as premature coronary artery dis- Cape Town. 12 TheCATHARTIC School mates stage special reunion

Then … and now! From left to right: Drs Gasiep Jappie, Elroy Schroeder, Manilal Daya and Kaltoem Adams.

This is definitely not something you see Schroeder of Neave Township; and Dr rate continents – met up in Port Eliza- every day! Four Port Elizabeth school Manilal Daya. beth for a good dose of nostalgia follow- friends share a bond that few others can All four were educated at the South ing their 40th reunion celebrations at claim—from high school to qualifying as End High school. They began their stud- UCT. Specialist surgeon Manilal Daya doctors and doing their internships to- ies at the University of Cape Town Medi- still lives in Port Elizabeth, along with gether. cal School in 1962. Kaltoem Adams, a general practitioner. The following articles are excerpts Dr Daya, 27, obtained a Bachelor of Anaesthetists Gasiep Jappie and Alroy from a Port Elizabeth newspaper, the Science degree before going on to study Schroeder live in the United Kingdom Weekend Post. The first celebrates their medicine. and Australia respectively. achievements as they qualified as doctors, Unfortunately there are no facilities Jappie who left Port Elizabeth in and the second chronicles a special reun- for non-White medical students in Port 1972, said although the foursome had ion of this group. Elizabeth, so we had no choice but to gone their separate ways, their friendship come to Cape Town, said Dr Adams. had been “firmly established”. Weekend Post, 15 December 1967: All four will return to Port Elizabeth “We were friends at high school, we soon where they will do their houseman- qualified together and we did our intern- From South End High School to ship at Livingstone Hospital. Their par- ships together”. Schroeder said: “The class doctors’ gowns ents attended the graduation ceremony of 1967 is scattered all over the world. VARSITY TRIUMPH FOR FOUR yesterday. The reunion presented an opportunity for P.E. NON-WHITES many to come back and talk’. Four non-White students from Port Weekend Post, Saturday 15 December He last visited Port Elizabeth six years Elizabeth were among 126 young doctors 2007: ago, 31 years after moving to Australia. who received their degrees at a gradua- Special reunion for South End Daya added: “While we have special tion ceremony at the University of Cape graduates memories, it was also a difficult time. It Town yesterday. Forty years ago, four South End High was the apartheid era and there were They were capped by the Chancellor School matriculants graduated as doctors problems with education. Not everything of the University, Mr Harry Oppen- from the University of Cape Town – an was available to us in terms of clinical heimer. The four are: Dr Kaltoem Adams, event reported in the Weekend Post at material”. Recalling the 1967 graduation, daughter of Mr and Mrs AM Adams of that time as a “varsity triumph” for the Adams said: “That year, Professor Chris Gelvan Park; Dr Gasiep Jappie, son of Mr schoolmates. Barnard performed the first heart trans- and Mrs HF Jappie, of South End; Dr This month, the four doctors – who plant. When we graduated he shared the Elroy Schroeder, son of Mr and Mrs D have kept in touch despite living on sepa- stage, receiving a doctorate in science”. Gillian is our “Brain of Brains” Associate Professor Gillian Ainslie and a bit of luck saw Ainslie become the (MBChB 1975) entered the Radio 702/ 2008 winner of the competition, pocket- Radio 567 (Cape Talk) Brain of Brains ing the princely sum of R41 000. competition just for fun, and thought she Ainslie, from the UCT Department would likely be knocked out in the first of Medicine's Respiratory Clinic, entered round. both online and by phoning in and But a combination of sound general eventually won all her rounds to become knowledge, the ability to hold her nerve the "Brain of Brains". 13 INAUGURAL LECTURES TheCATHARTIC Four professors inaugurated in 2008

The Faculty of Health Sciences hosted four inaugural lectures in 2008. The lectures celebrate the appointment of Professors in the Faculty.

JULY

Professor Diane McIntyre Title: “Just health care: people or profits?” Prof McIntyre has a BCom, BA (Hons), MA and PhD, all from UCT. She has worked at UCT for over 20 years, starting as a lecturer in 1988 and progressing via ad hominem promotions to profes- sor in 2008. She founded the Health Economics Unit (HEU) in 1990, and served as director for 13 years. She was recently appointed the South African Research Chair in Health and Wealth.

AUGUST Professor Alastair Millar Title: “Surgery for Children: In search of perfection” Professor Millar qualified at UCT and first had training in paediatrics at Groote Schuur and Red Cross Children’s Hospitals before undertaking surgical training in paediatric and general surgery in the United Kingdom. He continued with further specialist training in paediatric surgery at the Red Cross Children’s Hospital, Cape Town and at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. Further experience was gained in transplantation in Cambridge, U.K as Senior Clinical Transplant Fellow (1990) to the University Department of Surgery, Addenbrooke’s Hospital under Professor Sir Roy Calne. SEPTEMBER

Professor Anna-Lise Williamson Title: “Cancer, Viruses and Vaccines” Professor Anna-Lise Williamson received her B.Sc. (1978) and B.Sc. (Hons) (1979) from the Univer- sity of the Witwatersrand. She then worked at the Veterinary Research Institute, Onderstepoort, where she completed her PhD (1985) through Wits. After completing her PhD, she spent 6 months as a visiting scientist at the Friedrich Miescher Institute (Basel, Switzerland). In 1987, she moved to the University of Cape Town to work in the Medical Virology section of the Department of Medical Microbiology and is now recognised as an international expert on BCG vectored vaccines.

OCTOBER

Professor Alan Morris Title: “The Politics of Old Bones” Prof Alan Morris graduated with a PhD (1984) from the University of the Witwatersrand, but has been at the University of Cape Town since 1979, first in the Department of Archaeology and since 1981 in the Department of Anatomy (now Human Biology). His PhD thesis was on the ‘ Osteologi- cal Analysis of the Protohistoric Populations of the Northern Cape and Western Orange Free State, South Africa.’

The lectures are available on the UCT web site at: http://www.news.uct.ac.za/lectures/inaugural/

14 PUBLICATIONS & RESEARCH TheCATHARTIC For the love of the written word Biography of Nobel winner rooted in South African science There are two remarkable things about about a family man, his discoveries, and Allan MacLeod Cormack, the subject of the way those changed our world. And Professor Kit Vaughan's newly launched Cormack's science did change the world. biography, Imagining the Elephant. Guest speaker at the South African The first is that Cormack, a 'lowly' launch, neurosurgeon Professor Graham physicist (albeit UCT trained), was co- Fieggen, said computer assisted tomogra- winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physi- phy had revolutionised his discipline, ology or Medicine for his computer- allowing clinicians to identify objects assisted tomography (CAT) scanner. normally hidden in a traditional 2D X- Second, Cormack's work, conducted ray. Another highlight of this event was at the southern tip of Africa, revolution- the brief address by Cormack's elder sis- ised the future of imaging - and inspired a ter, Amy (Amelia) Read. Vaughan had new generation of medical scientists such been able to present her with a hot-off- as Vaughan. the-press copy of the book on her 90th When Cormack died in 1998, birthday. Vaughan, then a biomedical engineer in The Boston, USA book launch was the Department of Human Biology, ap- held in the Tisch Library of Tufts Univer- proached Cormack's family about plans to sity, where Allan Cormack was a Profes- Prof Kit Vaughan at the launch of Imag- create a UCT research group to honour sor in the Department of Physics from ining the Elephant. his scientific contributions. They agreed 1957-1994 . Tufts University President and the MRC/UCT Medical Imaging Re- Lawrence S Bacow welcomed a wide alumni and friends. search Unit was launched in May 2000, range of guests, including Allan’s chil- Proceeds will go to the Allan Cor- with Vaughan its director. dren, Jean and Robert Cormack and mack Book Fund, to help needy students But the book is not about science. It's other family members, Tufts faculty, and to buy physics and maths books. The slave has overcome—autobiography by William Pick

Professor William Pick has lived through watersrand School of Public Health and pre-apartheid, apartheid and post- ultimately the interim Presidency of the apartheid regimes, and these experiences South African Medical Research Council. are remarkable enough to deserve docu- The transformation committee at the Fac- mentation. ulty of Health Sciences invited him to "I thought about writing a textbook launch the book there as they felt it was for schoolchildren, but then I realised that important to think back on the faculty's I was not an author, and that it would be past as well. easier to reflect on my experiences," says Associate Professor Gonda Perez, dep- Pick, an honorary professor of public uty dean for the faculty, said the need to health at UCT. reflect on the past is crucial. On 24 June he released an autobiogra- "Unless we understand what happened, Prof William Pick. phy, The Slave has Overcome. In it, he and put in place supportive and preventive reflects on, among other things, his time as a black medical stu- structures, we will not be able to prevent injustices happening dent at UCT, where he completed his MBChB and MMed de- again.” grees in 1964 and 1989, respectively. Pick believes that the Western Cape is still struggling with As one of the youngest graduates in medicine at the Univer- issues of identity. "There is no reason for not celebrating our sity of Cape Town, his career followed an extraordinary trajec- identity, and we should be keen on sharing our ancestry," he tory from family practice in Ravensmead, through academic says. "It is time for us to speak about it frankly, without shame Public Health, to the headship of the University of the Wit- or fear." 15 REUNIONS TheCATHARTIC REUNIONS

Above and right: the Class of 1957 gathered for their 50th reunion in December 2007. Below: A group with a lot to talk about: The Faculty of Health Sciences’ MBChB graduating class of 1953 gathered in Cape Town to reminisce, catch up and, maybe to “skinner” just a little!

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Class of 1967 crowding into the hallowed halls!

Top: the 1967 reunion group crowd the passage of Hospital Street, Groote Schuur Hospital.

Above: registration provides an ideal opportunity to chat!

Above and left: Festivities form a major part of a reunion event, but more importantly, provide an opportunity to reconnect with old friends.

17 TheCATHARTIC Do you remember

when …

… the Class of 1982

Reunions provide UCT Health Sciences Faculty graduates with a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with old friends and share experiences, both professional and personal. Taking the time to meet up with your former classmates is an enriching—and even entertaining experience! Don’t miss out, please contact Joan Tuff on 021 406 6686 or [email protected] to find out when your next reunion is taking place! 18 TheCATHARTIC The Class of 1992 reconnects and catches up with old friends

Above and right: the Class of 1992.

Below: 40 years of fun in Physiotherapy

19 TheCATHARTIC Where are they now?

The Cathartic keeps in touch with all Faculty of Health Sciences Alumni through this publication, the website and UCT News. This is an excellent way of finding out where old friends and colleagues are and what they might be doing. Please complete the form at the end of this section so that we can also keep track of your career and assist you to keep in touch with your alma mater. Gilbert, Ralph (MBChB Knox, Karen (MBChB Reid, Guy (MBChB 1990’s 1992) is a General Prac- 1992) is a Clinical Micro- 1992) is an Anaesthetist Baboolal, Hermanth titioner in private prac- biologist at the Surrey & in Private Practice in (MBChB 1992) super- tice in Pietermaritzburg. Sussex Healthcare Trust Port Elizabeth. He is vises anaesthesia resi- He has two daughters in the UK. She is mar- married with 2 children. dents primarily during and enjoys bridge, cook- ried to Grant Hayman, a paediatric surgery at ing and camping. UCT graduate who is a Rooke, Sonia (MBChB Massachusetts General Consultant Clinical Im- 1992) is a General Prac- Hospital, Harvard Medi- Harrison, Dale (MBChB munologist. They have 2 titioner in a five-partner cal School in Boston. He 1992) is in private Oph- daughters. practice in rural Wales enjoys swimming and thalmology practice in and is also involved with rock climbing. Claremont, Cape. Mar- Kuper, Sandi (MBChB training GP specialist ried to Kerry with one 1992) is in private prac- registrars in practice. Birch, Craig (MBChB son, he enjoys running, tice as a General Practi- She is married to David 1992) is an Anaesthetist fishing and golf. tioner in Parkwood, Jo- Williams who is Welsh at Middlemore Hospital, hannesburg. She is mar- and works as a commu- in Auckland, New Zea- ried with 3 children and nity psychiatric nurse. land as well as a Senior Hopley, Charles enjoys running, boxing They have two children. Lecturer at the Univer- (MBChB 1992) is an and watercolour paint- sity of Auckland. He is Ophthalmology registrar ing. married to Alexandra at the Wellington Hospi- Tweedale, Justin (Ali) Goldkorn (MBChB tal in New Zealand. He (MBChB 1992) is a Gen- 1994) and they have one is married to Jennifer Lombard, Linda eral Practitioner from daughter, Tessa who is and has 2 boys. (MBChB 1992) is a Gen- Winchester, UK. Married 3 years old. Craig enjoys eral Practitioner special- to Alexia with six chil- golf, running, kayaking Howard, Bruce ising in travel and addic- dren, Justin counts lead- and cycling. (MBChB 1992) is mar- tion medicine and has ing church in Winchester ried to Bronwen Sara, been living in North amongst his memorable his classmate from Bondi beach, Sydney for moments. Cleveland, Gregory medical school. They the last 12 years. She is (MBChB 1992) is a Gen- live in Rondebosch, married to Mark and has Wilson, John (MBChB eral Practitioner at Long Cape where Bruce is in 2 children. She enjoys 1992) is an Anaesthetist Beach Medical Centre Obstetrics and Gynae- ocean swimming and in Private Practice in and lives in Noordhoek, cology at the Vincent has done the Sydney Durban. He is married to Cape. He is married to Pallotti and Groote opera house harbour Tonia and they have one Dee and has 2 sons. Schuur Hospitals, while swim. son. John enjoys watch- Bronwen is in a private ing sport on TV, golf and Emanuel, Shaunagh anaesthetics practice. birding. (MBChB 1992) works They have three chil- Rainier-Pope, Nick part time at the UCT dren. (MBChB 1992) works in Lung Institute and is a emergency medicine at

General Practitioner with the Royal Inland Hospi- 1980’s a special interest in Al- Jedaar, Zareena tal and is district medical Berman, Sandra lergies. She is married to (MBChB 1992) is mar- coordinator and trans- (MBChB 1981) is a part- Trevor Versfeld whom ried to Irishman, Mark port advisor for the Brit- time Medical Officer and she met in her 3rd year of Sandy-Thomas, and is a ish Columbia ambulance works at the Retreat study and they have consultant in emergency service. Married to Paula Community Health Cen- three children. Hobbies medicine at the Univer- with one son, they live in tre. She is married to include walking on the sity Hospital of Wales in Kamloops, Canada. Alan Boyd, a Scientist in mountain and going to Cardiff. They have one Hobbies include snow Marine Coastal Manage- the beach. child. and water skiing. ment and has 2 daugh- 20 TheCATHARTIC ters. They live in Marina into Africa). atric Radiology at the Worthington, Michael da Gama, Cape. Red Cross War Memo- (MBChB 1982) works in Hodkinson, Bruce rial Children’s Hospital the Department of Boltman, Mary (MBChB (MBChB 1981) is Group and School of Child and Cardio Thoracic Surgery 1981) is married to CEO of Swiss Reinsur- Adolescent Health at at the Royal Adelaide Stephen Taylor who ance and lives in UCT. He is married to Hospital. He is married was in her class at medi- Newlands, Cape with his Stephanie (Stevie) and with one daughter and cal school. Mary is in wife Marylyn and two they have 2 children. enjoys keel boat sailing part-time private practice sons. and scuba diving. with an interest in An- Pridgeon, John aesthesia whilst Stephen Katz, Ian (MBChB 1982) (MBChB 1981) is a Gen- is a Private Hospital Ex- works in Community- eral Practitioner and 1970’s ecutive specialising in based Obstetrics and Consultant to Alcat Blignaut, Paul (MBChB Community Health. They Gynaecology care at the South Africa and is in- 1976) is an Ophthal- live in East London and Clalit Health Services & volved in anti-aging mologist in private prac- have 2 daughters. Rabin Medical Centre in medicine. He lives in tice at Parklands Hospi- Petach Tikva, Israel. He Gauteng and has 3 chil- tal in Durban. He enjoys Dowdle, Sue (MBChB is married and has 2 dren. fly fishing and summited 1982) is a Family thera- children. Kilimanjaro last year. pist and Counsellor and Reay, Gill (MBChB He is married to Lindy specialises in Nuclear Kaye, Geoff (MBChB 1982) is acting Head of and has 3 children. Medicine in Melbourne, 1982) is Medical Director the Department of An- Australia. She is married at the Gimbel Eye Cen- aesthetics at Edendale Brink, Johan (MBChB to Stephen Booth tre in Edmonton, Can- Hospital in Pietermaritz- 1976) is Director of Clini- (MBChB 1978) and has ada and does Refractive burg. She is married to cal Services and Associ- 2 children. Sue enjoys Surgery, Cataract Sur- Nick Grice who gradu- ate Professor, Chris Bar- walking, cooking, enter- gery and General Oph- ated from UCT in 1980 nard Division of Cardio- taining and reading. thalmology. He enjoys as an architect. They thoracic Surgery at UCT. swimming and travelling. have 2 children. He is married to Monika Eickhoff, Sibylla Esser (MBChB 1978) (MBChB 1982) is an Leibbrandt, Beryl and they have 3 daugh- Anaesthetist from Hout (MBChB 1982) is a Pae- Robertson, Cleeve ters. Hobbies include Bay, Cape. She is mar- diatrician involved with (MBChB 1983) is Head cycling, windsurfing, ca- ried and enjoys jogging HIV/AIDS, allergy and of the Emergency Medi- noeing and running. and horse riding. general paediatrics at cal Services in the West- Sibylla spent 4 months Tygerberg and Karl ern Cape. Married to Corkin, Richard after graduation as a Bremer Hospitals. She Charmaine, his daugh- (MBChB 1976) is an doctor on St Helena Is- lives in Bellville and en- ter, Carrie, is in her third Ophthalmologist from land and 10 months in joys jogging, hiking and year of Medicine at UCT Dalkey, Ireland and Trail, Canada as a Gen- reading. and son, Dugald, is dep- practices at the Welling- eral Practitioner/ uty head boy of SACS ton Eye Clinic in Dublin. Anaesthetist. Motyer, Rob (MBChB for 2008. He is married to Lynn 1980) is in private Cardi- with 2 children, Lucy and Gotlieb, David (MBChB ologist practice and lives James. 1981) is a Rheumatolo- in Pimlico, Queensland, Rosen, Hugh (MBChB gist in Private Practice in Australia. Married to 1982) is Professor of Curwen, Christopher Cape Town. He is mar- Lynette Boyes (MBChB Immunology and Chair, (MBChB 1976), is an ried to Linda and has 2 UCT 1982), they have Advances Human Orthopaedic Surgeon at children from a previous two children. Therapeutics at the the Gloucestershire marriage and 2 step chil- Scripps Research Insti- Royal Hospital in the dren. Hobbies include Piemontesi, Rob tute in La Jolla, Califor- UK. He enjoys watching computers/graphic de- (MBChB 1982) is an nia. He is married to rugby and is Doctor to sign and golf. Opthmologist from Debra with 2 sons, Jer- the Gloucester Rugby Nanaimo, British Colum- emy and Daniel. Club. Married to Alison, Hacking, Geoffrey bia, Canada where he they have 3 children. (MBChB 1981) is a Di- lives with his wife, Jill, Van Diggelen, Nick agnostic Radiologist in and their 3 sons. (MBChB 1981) is a Histo Marais, Edgar (MBChB private practice in Cape and Cyto-pathologist in 1976) is in general prac- Town. He is married to Pitcher, Richard Cape Town. He is mar- tice in Cape Town. He Liz and enjoys golf and (MBChB 1981) is Head ried to Ewa and has 2 enjoys mountaineering travel (especially 4x4 of the Division of Paedi- sons. and painting. 21 TheCATHARTIC Matthews, Stanley located to rural Canada 4 sons, 3 of whom stud- sultant from Milnerton, (MBChB 1976) is an Or- in 2002 where he re- ied at UCT. He enjoys Cape. He is married to thopaedic Surgeon from qualified as a medical reading and going to the Maureen with 4 children Gisborne New Zealand doctor at the age of 62 . gym. and 2 grandchildren and where he lives with his He is married and has 3 enjoys golf and music. wife, Karen and their 2 children. Hobbies in- Duncan, Geoff (MBChB sons. Hobbies include clude music and cross 1967) works in Family Leroith Derek (MBChB vintage cars and horse country skiing. Medicine at the Medi- 1967) is an Endocrinolo- racing. cross Clinic in Fish gist who is presently Di- Hoek, Cape. He is mar- rector of the Metabolism Miller, Jim (MBChB ried to Rosemary with 3 Institute at the Mount 1972) is Chief Physician 1960’s daughters and 2 grand- Sinai School of Medicine at the Pietermaritzburg Banda, Ernest (MBChB sons and enjoys hiking in New York. He is mar- Hospital complex. Mar- 1966) is Principal Medi- and carpentry. ried to Irit with three chil- ried to Fritse with two cal Officer at 1 Military dren and two grandchil- children, he enjoys Hospital, Pretoria doing Faure, Jean (MBChB dren – one daughter and travel, music, golf and clinical work and neuro 1967) is in private urol- granddaughter living in motoring. rehabilitation. He is ogy practice at the Her- Cape Town. married to Rita, a Nurs- manus Medi-clinic. He Norton, Bryan (MBChB ing Service Manager, and his wife, Mary, man- Locketz, Maxwell 1976) is in General with 5 children and 4 age a guest house in (MBChB 1966) is a Ra- Practice in North Van- grandchildren. Hermanus. They have diologist and Partner at couver, Canada. He and two sons, a daughter Visser, Erasmus and his wife, Rose, have 3 Chait, Alan (MBChB and a grand-daughter. Partners in Port Eliza- children. 1967) is Head of the Di- beth. He is married to vision of Metabolism, Freedman, Bazil Marilyn with 2 children, Royds, Jeremy Endocrinology and Nutri- (MBChB 1967) is a Psy- both UCT graduates. (MBChB 1976) is a Con- tion at the University of chiatrist in Private Prac- Son, Michael, is an Ana- sultant Psychiatrist at Washington, in Seattle. tice in Eugene, Oregon, tomical Pathologist and Cygnet Hospital in Married with two sons, USA. He has 4 children daughter, Leanne, a Sevenoaks, Kent, UK he enjoys photography, and one grandson and Speech Pathologist now and also practices in boating and skiing. enjoys walking, garden- living in Australia. Harley Street, London. ing, music and travel. He enjoys horse riding, Chalmers, Ian (MBChB Maggs, Peter (MBChB fly fishing and new world 1967) specialises in in- Gluckman, Jack 1966) is a Cardiotho- wines. He is married to ternal medicine with sub- (MBChB 1967) is Pro- racic Surgeon from Trish and has 3 children. speciality Rheumatology fessor of Otolaryngology Cambridge, Massachu- at the Health Sciences at the University of Cin- setts. He has one Stapleton, Graham Centre in Winnipeg, cinnati. He and his wife, daughter and enjoys (MBChB 1978) is a gen- Canada as well as the Vickie, have 4 children tennis, squash, flying, eral surgeon specialising University of Manitoba and 4 grandchildren and photography and com- in hepato biliary and Faculty of Medicine. his hobbies are skiing, puters. pancreatic surgery, bari- flyfishing, squash, golf, atric surgery and gastro- Chan Yan, Clifford reading and photogra- Mitchell, Allan (MBChB intestinal cancer from (MBChB 1967) special- phy. 1967) retired from the Newlands in the Cape. ises in nephrology and Kwa Zulu-Natal Depart- He is married with two internal medicine and is Greeff, Pierre (MBChB ment of Health as Re- children and enjoys gym in a group private prac- 1966) is a surgical on- gional Director in 2002. and photography. tice in Vancouver, Can- cologist from Tulsa, He is married to ada. He is married to Oklahoma, USA . He is Marianne and has three Tribe, Robert (MBChB Lorna Sent (MBChB married to Dinah and daughters. Hobbies in- 1976) is a Specialist UCT 1971), they have has two sons. Pierre clude bird watching, hik- Physician specialising in two daughters and two won the Service to Man- ing, caravanning and Nephrology in private granddaughters. kind Award presented by fishing. practice in Claremont, the Sertoma Society of Cape. He enjoys playing Daya, Manilal (MBChB Houston, Texas in 1987- Morison, Adrian golf. 1967) is a General Sur- 1988. (MBChB 1967) is a pae- geon in Private Practice diatrician in the Paediat- White, Graham in Port Elizabeth. He is Jedeikin, Leon (MBChB ric Department at Victo- (MBChB 1970) is a fam- married to Hemkala, a 1966) is a general Pae- ria Hospital in Wynberg, ily practitioner who re- physiotherapist, and has diatric Specialist Con- Cape. A keen runner, 22 TheCATHARTIC Adrian has completed 17 Philander, Dennis therapist. They have a Hospital in Victoria, Can- Two Oceans and 7 (MBChB 1967) is a Psy- son and a daughter, ada. He is married with Comrades Marathons as chiatrist from Minneapo- both living in Cape Town three sons and enjoys well as 10 Argus Cycle lis, USA. He has been and three grandchildren. woodworking, photogra- Tours. married to Eileen for 36 phy, golf and travel. years, and has four chil- Swift, Peter (MBChB Narunsky, Leslie dren. Dennis enjoys ten- 1967) specialises in In-

(MBChB 1967) is a re- nis, art collecting – espe- ternal Medicine and is 1950’s tired Radiologist from cially Mexican artists, Head of the Department Allen, Edward (MBChB Sydney, Australia. He and the piano. of Medicine at the East 1953) works in internal has been married to his London Hospital Com- medicine, respirology wife, Marcia, for 40 Ross, John (MBChB plex. Married to Jenny, and public health in years and has 3 children 1967) has retired from they have 3 children. West Vancouver, Can- and one grandchild. He General Practice and Their daughter, Donne, ada. He is married to enjoys gym, walking and lives in Wembley, Pieter- is a Medical Officer at Ursula and has four chil- music. maritzburg with his wife, Red Cross Children’s dren, 5 grandchildren Susan. They have 2 chil- Hospital and is a fourth and one great- dren – Andrew in New generation medical doc- grandchild. Nicolson, Melanie York and Jessica in Lon- tor. (MBChB 1966) has been don. Basker, Samuel Acting Director of An- van der Walt, Johan (MBChB 1957) is in aesthetics at Rockhamp- Sacks, Basil (MBChB (MBChB 1967) retired Family Medicine in Nor- ton Hospital in Queen- 1966) is a Family Physi- from Paediatric Anaes- dia, Israel. He is respon- sland, Australia for 10 cian with a special inter- thetics in July 2007 and sible for the day-to-day years. She has a mar- est in Bariatric Medicine was former Director of care of approximately ried son and grand- in Sea Point, Cape Anaesthesia at the Ade- 2000 patients. Married to daughter living in the Town. He got engaged laide Children’s Hospital Pat, they have 3 children United States and a sin- to his wife, Sheila, when in Australia. He is mar- and 15 grandchildren. gle daughter in South he was in 5th year and ried to Gaynor and en- Africa. Hobbies include married 10 days after joys 4x4 touring and Crossley, Arthur art, yoga, tennis and graduation. They have 2 camping, woodcarving (MBChB 1956) is from gardening. sons who are both doc- and gardening. Norton, Zimbabwe tors. where he was a General Oppenheimer, Edgar Werner, John (MBChB Practitioner/Anaesthetist (MBChB 1967) is Direc- Shaskolsky, Ivor 1967) is head of the for 20 years. He did fly- tor of Paediatric Neurol- (MBChB 1966) ran the ophthalmology depart- ing doctor duties in Zam- ogy at the North Shore first dedicated private ment at the Maluti Mis- bia and Zimbabwe dur- Children’s Hospital in practice in Nuclear Medi- sion Hospital in Mapo- ing the Rhodesian Bush Massachusetts, USA. cine in Cape Town and teng, Lesotho. He and War. He also served in Married to Joyce for 33 South Africa up until his wife, Celia, have two the South Pacific Health years, they have 3 chil- 2002. He lives in Milner- children. He enjoys jog- Service in Fiji, the British dren and 4 grandchil- ton, Cape with his wife, ging having participated Solomon Islands and dren. Amongst his Faisia, and has 3 sons. in the Comrades and Niue Island. memorable moments, Two Oceans Marathons Edgar has enjoyed trips Sher, Jeffrey (MBChB) twice each. De Kock, Ewald to the Galapagos Is- 1967 is a General Practi- (MBChB 1957) is a Di- lands, Machu Picchu tioner from Newlands, Wiid, Jan (MBChB agnostic Radiologist and and a trip to the Baltic Cape. Married to Carole 1966) is a partner in a lives in Hermanus with States and Russia trac- (née Tyfield) with two GP practice in Gauteng. his wife, Katusha, a ing family roots. sons, and a grand- His wife, Marlene, is Groote Schuur Hospital daughter, Jeffrey enjoys Chief Radiographer tutor trained nurse. He enjoys flying his own Piper in Oncology at Hillbrow surf angling, especially Pearce, Sarah (MBChB Cherokee. Hospital. They have 4 in Namibia where they 1967) is a Consultant children and his hobbies have an apartment in Physician specialising in Smith, David (MBChB include woodwork, walk- Henties Bay. Respiratory Medicine at 1969) works in a GP ing and South African the University Hospital of practice at the local hos- politics. Du Plessis, Jeanne North Durham, UK. She pital in Hay River, Can- (MBChB 1956) is an An- is married to Dr John ada. His wife, Meriel Zacks, David (MBChB aesthesiologist from Cotes and has one son. (née Forbes) is a Cana- 1967) is staff radiologist Newlands, Cape. She is Sarah sings in a choir. dian trained massage at the Victoria General married to Emeritus Pro- 23 TheCATHARTIC fessor JC (Kay) de ming, skiing and tennis. dren and 8 grandchil- dren. Hobbies include Villiers (MBChB 1951) dren and enjoys astron- music and electronics. and they have 2 children Kennelly, Brian omy, reading, world af- and 4 grandchildren. (MBChB 1958) is a Car- fairs and travel. Jeanne won the Gold diologist at the Hoag Truter, Frans (MBChB Medal in her final year Memorial Presbyterian Movsowitz, Leon 1957) has retired from examination at UCT in Hospital in Newport (MBChB 1957) is a gen- private practice as a 1956. Beach, California, USA. eral Paediatrician in Pri- General Practitioner and He is married to Fiona vate Practice in Wyn- lives in Citrusdal with his Hassan, Mogamat and has 4 children – berg and does part-time wife, Ina. He has three (MBChB 1957) is a Brian, Mandy, Scott, hospital sessions. His children and 8 grandchil- semi-retired Consultant Kirsten and 6 grandchil- wife, Eunice, is a Radi- dren and enjoys cycling Urologist at the Prince dren. He enjoys garden- ographer and they have and 4x4 excursions. George Regional Hospi- ing. 3 sons – Roy, Colin and tal, in Canada. He lives Herman and a daughter, in White Rock, British Kessler, Ada (MBChB Tanya, all of whom are Van Coeverden De Columbia with his wife, 1958) worked in the Out- UCT graduates. Groot, Henk (MBChB Lima, and has 3 children Patients Department of 1957) works in the De- and 2 grandchildren. Groote Schuur Hospital Paton, David (MBChB partment of Obstetrics for 28 years before re- 1958) is a Consultant and Gynaecology at the Heydenrych, Jacobus tirement. She also did Orthopaedic Surgeon Dora Nginza Hospital in (MBChB 1956) retired sessions at Red Cross with the North London Port Elizabeth where he Prof of Paediatric Sur- Out-Patients Department Group Hospitals. He is does outpatient ses- gery, Tygerberg Hospi- a well as tutorials to the married to Rosemary, sions. He is an ordained tal, is married to Derma- 5th year students. Her lives in Norfolk, UK and Anglican Priest and is a tologist, Leonore van husband is a Director of has a daughter, Fiona. widower with 3 married Rensburg. He was nomi- Companies and they He enjoys travelling, daughters and 4 grand- nated as the Great have 2 children. walking and gardening. children. Scholar of the 21st Cen- tury in 2005 by the Laubscher, Jan Rochman, Hyman Van der Horst, Ron American Biographic (MBChB 1957) was for- (MBChB 1956) is a re- (MBChB 1956) was for- Institute. They have 3 merly Officer Command- tired Clinical Pathologist merly Medical Director of children and 2 grandchil- ing: Institute for Maritime from Chicago, USA. He a 65 office Medical Prac- dren and live in Durban- Medicine in Simon’s is married and has 2 tice and Associate Pro- ville, Cape. Town. He is a widower sons. fessor of Cardiology at and lives in the Strand, the University of Illinois. Cape. He has a son and Segal, Alan (MBChB He is married to Mau- Jacobson, Jack a daughter. 1958) lives in Tel Aviv, reen with 3 children and (MBChB 1956) is a re- Israel and is married 4 grandchildren and has tired Anaesthetist from Marks, Isaac (MBChB with 2 sons and 2 grand- homes in Boca Raton, Bellville, Cape. He has 1956) retired in 2002 sons. He was formerly Florida and Northbrook, been married to Carolyn and is Professor Emeri- Consultant Anaesthetist Illinois, USA. for 42 years and they tus of Experimental Psy- at the Stockton-on-Tees have 2 sons and 2 chopathology, Institute University Hospital in the Van der Merwe, Carel grandchildren. He is an of Psychiatry at King’s UK. He is a private pilot (CP) (MBChB 1959) is a ex police reservist and College as well as Visit- and flew as first officer retired General Practitio- enjoys woodwork, cy- ing Professor at the Im- taking men to Amster- ner who practiced in the cling, piano, gym and perial College in London. dam to work on the Cape Town CBD for photography. He is married to Prof North Sea Oil Platforms. forty years. Married to Shula Marks with 2 chil- Nannette (née Cleak) – Kahn, Leonard (M Med dren and 3 grandchil- Stassen, Louis BA UCT 1956, they have Path 1965) is Chairman dren. (MBChB 1957) is a Di- 3 children, all of whom and Professor of Pathol- agnostic Radiologist who studied at UCT. He is a ogy at the Albert Ein- Mohamed, Abdullah has retired to Onrus keen yachtsman having stein College of Medi- (Abe) (MBChB 1957) is River with his wife. Be- been Vice Commodore cine and lives in Great a part-time consultant at fore retirement he was of the Royal Cape Yacht Neck, New York. He is Groote Schuur Hospital working in the Depart- Club and has sailed married to Louise (née and won the UCT Distin- ment of Radiology at the most of the big races Tuch) and has 3 children guished Surgeon Award University of the Free around South Africa, and 8 grandchildren. in 1993. He lives in State. They have 4 chil- including several races Hobbies include swim- Cape Town, has 5 chil- dren and 10 grandchil- to Rio de Janeiro. 24 TheCATHARTIC Keeping in touch

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