Abridged CV – October 2015 Bongani M. Mayosi Department of Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Email: [email protected] URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bongani_Mayosi Born: 28 January 1967, Mthatha, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Qualifications, and where and when obtained BMedSci with distinction, University of KwaZulu Natal, 1986 MBChB with distinction, University of KwaZulu Natal, 1989 FCP(SA), The Colleges of Medicine of South Africa, 1995 DPhil, University of Oxford, 2003 Recognition from peers Honours, awards, prizes

2013 Elected to the Fellowship of the World Academy of Arts and Science (FWAAS) South African Medical Association / Bonitas Medical Fund Merit Award for Health Research 2012 2011/2012 National Science and Technology Foundation – BHP Billiton Award: To an individual for outstanding contribution to Science Engineering Technology and Innovation through Management and related activities over the previous 5-10 years or less 2011 National Research Foundation Award for Transforming the Science Cohort in South Africa 2009 Order of Mapungubwe, Silver 2007 Top 25 Influential Leaders in Healthcare in South Africa Award, South African Institute of Health Care Managers 2006 Elected to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of London (FRCP Lond) 2006 Elected to the Fellowship of the American College of (FACC) 2005 Elected Member, Academy of Science of South Africa (MASSAf) UCT Fellows’ Award in recognition of outstanding scholarly achievement 2004 National Research Foundation President’s Award (‘P rating’) National Science & Technology Forum Awards, Research and Innovation over 2 years, Finalist Elected to the Fellowship of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC) 2002 University of KwaZulu Natal Convocation Award for Promising Young Academic 2001 4th Annual AstraZeneca Day Clinical Science Prize Tribute Magazine Achiever’s Award in Health Care 2000 – Finalist

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Research grants (from 2010) totalling R86,824,602 International collaborations Genetics of heart disease:  Professor Hugh Watkins, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK  Professor Bernard Keavney, University of Manchester, UK  Professor Peter Schwartz, University of Pavia, Italy  Dr Debo Adeyemo, Howard University, Washington DC, USA  Dr Guillaume Pare, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Management of tuberculous pericarditis:  Professor , Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada  Professor Jonathan Matenga, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe  Professor James Hakim, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe  Professor Albertino Damasceno, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique  Dr Alfred Chitsa Banda, Military Hospital, Lilongwe, Malawi  Dr Charles Mondo, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda  Dr Ayub Barasa, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya  Dr James Russell, Connaught Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone  Professor Mahmoud Sani, Kano University, Kano, Nigeria  Dr Akinyemi Aje, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria  Dr Okechukwu Ogah, Federal Medical Center, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria  Dr Victor Ansa, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Nigeria  Professor Solomon Danbauchi, Ahmadu Bello Teaching Hospital, Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria  Dr Dike Ojji, Abuja Teaching Hospital, Abuja, Nigeria Prevention of rheumatic fever:  Professor Salim Yusuf, Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada  Professor Jim Dale, University of Memphis, Tennessee, USA  Dr Ana Olga Mocumbi, Instituto Nacional de Saude, Maputo, Mozambique.  Professor Abraham Haileamlak, University of Jimma, Jimma, Ethiopia  Dr Dejuma Yadeta, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia  Professor Ganesan Karthikeyan, All India Institute of Medical Science, Delhi, India  Professor Luiza Guilherme, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil  Dr Chris Hugo-Hamman, Windhoek Central Hospital, Windhoek, Namibia

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 Professor Stephen Ogendo, 6Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya  Dr Charles Mondo, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda  Professor Albertino Damasceno, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique  Professor Mahmoud Sani, Kano University, Kano, Nigeria  Dr Akinyemi Aje, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria  Dr Okechukwu Ogah, Federal Medical Center, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria  Dr Dike Ojji, Abuja Teaching Hospital, Abuja, Nigeria  Dr Fidelia Bode-Thomas, Department of Paediatrics, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria  Professor Mohammed Al-Kebsi, 10Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Sana’a, Al-Thawrah Cardiac Center, Sana’a, Yemen  Dr Azza Abul Fadl, Faculty of Medicine, Benha University, Cairo, Egypt  Professor Sahar Sheta, Department of Paediatrics, Division of Paediatric Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University Children’s Hospital, Cairo, Egypt  Professor Ahmed ElSayed, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Al Shaab Teaching Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Alzaiem Alazhari University, Khartoum, Sudan  Dr John Musuku, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University Teaching Hospital, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia  Dr Neil Kennedy, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi  Dr Joseph Mucumbitsi, Paediatric Cardiology Unit, Department of Paediatrics, King Faisal Hospital, Kigali, Rwanda

Editorial responsibilities:  Member, Editorial Board, BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2000-  Associate Editor, South African Medical Journal, 2003-2010  Associate Editor, International Journal of Epidemiology, 2003-2014  Member, Editorial Board, Cardiovascular Journal of Africa, 2004-  Member, Editorial Board, SA Heart, 2007-  Member, Editorial Board, South African Journal of Epidemiology and Infection, 2008-2014  Member, Advisory Board, Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2009-  Editor for Africa, Circulation, 2012-  Member, International Advisory Board, Lancet Global Health, 2013-  Member, Editorial Advisory Board, HeartAsia, 2015-  Guest Editor for: South African Journal of Continued Medical Education on the Ailing Heart, April 1997. South African Journal of Continued Medical Education on Evidence Based Medicine, September 2003. Circulation focus issue on Cardiovascular Disease in Africa, 6 December 2005 (with Professor Lionel Opie) http://theheart.org/viewArticle.do?primaryKey=614439&from=/index.do . Heart series on the epidemiology of heart disease in Africa, 2006-2007. The Lancet Series 3

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on Health in South Africa, member, Steering Committee, 2007-2009. HeartRhythm, Supplement with Professors Peter Schwartz and Lionel Opie, November 2009. The Lancet Series on Health in South Africa, member, Steering Committee, 2012. Heart series of 9 peer-reviewed articles on the heart disease, diabetes and stroke in Africa, 2013. http://heart.bmj.com/search?fulltext=Mayosi&submit=yes&x=0&y=0 Research Publications: articles in more than 168 peer-reviewed journals Active Membership of Societies – National and International  South African Medical Association [Membership No. 24561], 1996-  Cardiac Arrhythmia Society of Southern Africa, 1997-  South African Heart Association, 2001-  European Society of Cardiology, 2004-  Pan-African Society of Cardiology, 2004-  Academy of Science of South Africa, 2005  American College of Cardiologists, 2005-  Royal College of Physicians of London, 2006 -  World Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2013 -

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