| Areas of Expertise | Name | Email Address | Telephone Number |
|---|---|---|---|
| All animal related issues- diseases that are transmitted from animals to man-rabies | Dr Sanil Singh | singhsd@ukzn.ac.za |
312 608 160 / 084 416 0271 |
| Anaesthesiology and Critical/Intensive Care | Dr Dean Gopalan | gopalan@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 4328 / 082 777 4450 |
| Antimicrobial Resistance, Antimicrobial Stewardship, Health Professional Education, Access, Retention and Success in Higher Education | Professor Sabiha Essack | essacks@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 4287/ 082 343 9892 |
| Audiology | Dr Jessica Paken | Pakenj@ukzn.ac.za | 0312 60 7548 |
| Bio & Research Ethics and Medical Law | Professor Sylvester C. Chima | chima@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 4604 / 071 246 6168 |
| Brain tumours, aneurysms, AVM, neuroendoscopy, paediatric neuro-surgery | Dr Veysel Karan | karanv@ukzn.ac.za | 082 975 9723 |
| Cardiology (heart disease, hypertension, cholesterol, etc) | Professor Datshana Naidoo | DatshanaNai@ialch.co.za |
031 240 2207 / 083 625 7321 |
| Clinical Aspect of HIV Infection, Neurotubercolosis | Professor Ahmed Bhigjee | bhigjee@ukzn.ac.za | 031 240 2359/63 |
| Communication disorders associated with autism; speech disorders | Ms Jennifer Ann Pahl | pahlj@ukzn.ac.za | 031 260 7624 |
| Controlled release dosage forms; Clinical Pharmacy/Ward Pharmaceutical Services | Dr Elizabeth Ojewole | ojewolee@ukzn.ac.za | 031 260 7937 |
| Dental public health, dental health education, research ethics | Prof Shenuka Singh | singhshen@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 8591 / 073 841 7384 |
| Dermatology | Professor Anisa Mosam | mosama@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 4565 / 084 497 8608 |
| Dermatology, Skin, Nails and Hair | Professor Ncoza Dlova | dlovan@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 4531 / 082 464 6210 |
| Diabetes, HIV-TB, CVS | Dr Viren Rambiritch | rambiritchv@ukzn.ac.za | 031 260 7797 |
| Diabetes, prediabetes, metabolic syndrome | Dr Andile Khathi | khathia@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 7585 / 076 522 1933 |
| Drug Design and Synthesis HIV and Antibacterial (Including TB) Drugs NMR Molecular Modelling | Professor Gert Kruger | kruger@ukzn.ac.za | 031 260 1845 |
| Drug interactions, metabolic complications in antiretroviral therapy | Dr Peter Owira | owirap@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 7720 / 079 347 6920 |
| Drug Utilization; Drug Policy; Health Information Systems | Professor Fatima Suleman | sulemanf@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 7941 / 837 860 758 |
| Epigenetics, Genetics, Toxicology | Professor Anil Chuturgoon | chutur@ukzn.ac.za | 031 260 4404 |
| Endocrinology and Diabetes | Dr Ayesha Motala | motala@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 4233 / 083 652 4947 |
| Endocrinology | Dr Imran Paruk | paruki@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 4233 / 084 553 3399 |
| ENT Specialist and Surgeon, Interest in Rhinology | Dr Nthabeleng Rankhethoa | RankhethoaN@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 4292 / 031 240 1754 / 0839731435 |
| Family Medicine, Primary Emergency Care, Maternal Surgical Safety, Quality improvement, The district Health system | Professor Mergan Naidoo | naidoom@ukzn.ac.za | 083 500 5334 |
|
- Forensic Pathology, - Clinical forensic medicine, i.e. medical examination of rape survivors and drink drivers, age estimation in living patients, examination of torture victims and victims of human trafficking, clinical examination of detainees before and after SAPS interrogation/crime scene pointing. - Toxicology - medico-legal death investigation including crime scene investigation, performance of autopsies. - Numerical hanatochronometry (death-time estimation). | Dr Sipho Mfolozi | MfoloziS@ukzn.ac.za |
031 240 2580 / 079 5807107 |
| Genetics | Professor Colleen Aldous | aldousc@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 4124 / 084 407 7603 |
| Geriatrics | Professor Bilkish Cassim | cassimb@uklzn.ac.za |
031 260 4246 / 0837884358 |
| Graduate level Public Health Education and Evaluation of Community Sanitation | Dr Stephen Knight | knights@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 4226 / 083 762 3123 |
| Human Genetics, TB and HIV. Focuses on how human genes can protect against infectious diseases | Dr. Veron Ramsuran | ramsuranv@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 4898 / 0826522160 |
| Health Professions Education | Dr Veena Singaram | singaram@ukn.ac.za |
312 604 594 / 845721018 |
| Health Economics | Prof Indres Moodley | Moodleyi15@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 4497 / 083 704 1948 |
| HIV and AIDS, Operational Pharmacy Practice projects, NHI | Dr Vassie Naidoo | naidoopj@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 7487 / 083 964 5429 |
| HIV/AIDS especially biomedical research and interventions, virology, immunology | Professor Thumbi Ndung'u | ndungu@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 4887 / 082 358 7204 |
| HIV and lung in children, Vaccination, Pulmonology, Allergy and Immunology, TB | Dr Prakash Jeena | jeena@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 4345/53/ 084 467 2723 |
| HIV, Genome Sequencing | Professor Tulio de Oliveira | tuliodna@gmail.com | 0829624219 |
| HIV Prevention | Professor Salim Abdool Karim | Karims1@ukzn.ac.za | 031 260 4555 |
| HIV/Women’s Health | Professor Quarraisha Abdool Karim | Quarraisha.abdoolkarim@caprisa.org | 031 260 4208 |
| Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV HIV Prevention in Pregnancy STIs in Pregnancy ART in Pregnancy | Professor Daya Moodley | moodleyd1@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 4683 825507693 |
| HIV and Non-HIV Sexually Transmitted Infections | Dr Nathlee Abbai | abbain@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 4439 / 716861423 |
| Human Patient Simulation in Anaesthesia & Resuscitation Training | Dr Narendra Bhimsan | Bhimsan@ukzn.ac.za |
031 240 1784 / 824 632 636 |
| Infectious Diseases | Professor Yunus Moosa | moosay@ukzn.ac.za | 072 522 7997 |
| Implementation of Point-of-Care Diagnostics in Resource-Limited Settings Systematic Reviews, Scoping Reviews | Dr Tivani Phosa Mashamba-Thompson | mashamba-thompson@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 2530 / 0784358283 |
| Kidney Diseases and Immunology | Prof Alain Assounga | assoungaa@ukzn.ac.za |
031 240 1325 / 072 274 1217 |
| Maternal Health Matters | Professor Jack Moodley | jmog@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 4241 / 0836335615 |
| Mental health Issues | Dr Winnie Baphumelele Cele | Celew@ukzn.ac.za |
031-260 2966 / 0603999161 |
| Neurologically acquired communication disorders in adults; Early childhood intervention | Ms Legini Moodley | moodleyl@ukzn.ac.za | 031 260 7387 |
| Occupational Health and Safety, Air Pollution and Health Outcomes, occupational asthma, legislation for compensation of occupational diseases | Professor Rajen Naidoo | naidoon@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 4385 / 082 437 9333 |
| Occupational Therapy | Mr Stanford Phehlukwayo | phehlukwayos@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 7954 / 734 519 004 |
| Occupational Therapy, Community Engagement, HIV/Aids management, Palliative Care | Ms Chantal Christopher | christopherc@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 8218 / 0845 633 799 |
| Occupational Therapy. | Mr December Mpanza | mpanzad@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 8381 / 828 442 938 |
| Rural Health and Substance Abuse Services | |||
| Occupational Therapy and Mental Health, autism, caring for the caregiver, Group work in occupational therapy | Dr Debbie Fewster | fewster@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 7354 / 846 925 899 |
| Occupational Therapy Practice (Physical Rehabilitation, Vocational Assessment, Paediatric Development); Health Science Research | Dr Pragashnie Govender | naidoopg@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 8258 / 0716 056 931 |
| Occupational therapy, wheelchairs and seating, geriatrics, osteoarthritis | Ms June McIntosh | mcintoshj@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 8675 / 0721 225 055 |
| Orthopaedic Surgery Fracture-related (post-operative/post-traumatic) bone infections and chronic osteomyelitis | Prof Leonard (Len) Marais | maraisl@ukzn.ac.za | 0829047277 |
| Physical and paediatric Occupational therapy, primary healthcare , occupational therapy education | Ms Deshni Naidoo | naidoodes@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 8407 / 0815 540 454 |
| Ophthalmology are vitreoretinal diseases and AIDS-related ocular problems | Dr Linda Visser | visser@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 4341 / 082 958 7458 |
| Optometry, Blindness Prevention, Ocular Disease | Dr Khathutshelo Percy Mashige | mashigek@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 7352 / 082 465 2699 |
| Professor Kovin Naidoo | k.naidoo@brienholdenvision.org | 27 837 774 293 | |
| Ms Naimah Ebrahim Khan | ebrahimn@ukzn.ac.za | 031 260 8645/ | |
| Ms Urvashni Nirghin | nirghinu@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 7940 / 072 589 8855 | |
| Dr Vanessa Raquel Moodley | moodleyvr@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 7091 / 832 595 271 | |
| Mr Alvin Munsamy | Munsamya1@ukzn.ac.za | 031 260 7816 | |
| Optometry – Low vision, public health optometry, Human Resources for Eye Health, The Business of Optometry and NHI | Ms Zamadonda N Q Xulu-Kasaba | XuluKasabaZ@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 7477 / 083 799 4544 |
| Occupational health: hearing disability in the informal sector | Professor Mershen Pillay | pillaym1@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 8109 / 0722553903 |
| Paediatrics: Asthma, lung diseases in children , cystic fibrosis | Professor Refiloe Masekela | masekelar@ukzn.ac.za | 079 489 0936 |
| Paediatrics, Infectious Diseases, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome and AIDS-related Opportunistic Infections | Professor Raziya Bobat | bobat@ukzn.ac.za | 031 260 4533/ 083 225 6983 |
| Paediatric Nephrology, Research Ethics | Professor Rajendra Bhimma | bhimma@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 4345 / 083 799 5674 |
| Pharmaceutical Chemistry | Professor Rajshekhar Karpoormath | karpoormath@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 7179 / 0721107207 |
| Physiotherapy-HIV/AIDS, Sport and Soft Tissue Injuries | Professor Verusia Chetty | Chettyve@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 7741 / 748905279 |
| Dr Ntsikelelo Pefile | pefilen@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 7181 / 847300432 | |
| Ms Prithi Jayaraman | jayaramanp@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 8024 / 079 291 1510 | |
| Dr Thaya Nadasan | nadasant@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 7939 / 084 494 4880 | |
| Dr Sonill Sooknunan Maharaj | maharjss@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 7817 / 083 461 1413 | |
| Plastic Surgery | Professor Anil Madaree | madaree@ukzn.ac.za |
031 240 1168 / 083 625 0629 |
| Pre-eclampsia | Professor Anita Naicker | naickera@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 4435 / 082 338 8821 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | Dr Suvira Ramlall | ramlalls4@ukzn.ac.za |
031 242 6168 / 082 977 4010 |
| Professor Bonga Chiliza | chilizab@ukzn.ac.za |
031 2604321 / 837826642 | |
| Public Health Medicine-HIV | Professor Myra Taylor | Taylor@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 4499 / 761 530 842 |
| Public Health Medicine | Dr Saloshni Naidoo | Naidoos71@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 4008 / 833 005 370 |
| Quality of medicines, Design and manufacturing of new medicines, Registration of medicines with South African Health Products Authority (SAHPRA), Nanotechnology | Professor Thirumala Govender | govenderth@ukzn.ac.za | 031 260 7983/ 083 326 3195 |
| Renal Disease and High Blood Pressure | Professor Yackoob Seedat | seedaty1@ukzn.ac.za | 031 266 1501 |
| Rural Health | Professor Mosa Moshabela | Moshabela@ukzn.ac.za | 031 260 1736 |
| Rural Health and Family Medicine | Dr Bernhard Gaede | Gaedeb@ukzn.ac.za | 312 604 210 |
| Sexual Violence Intimate Partner Violence Forensic Nursing Nursing Nursing Education | Professor Sinegugu Duma | dumas1@ukzn.ac.za | 312 604 946 0824492635 |
| Speech Language Pathology | Dr Penny Flack | flackp@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 7207 / 083 661 4774 |
| Ms Desiree John | johnd@ukzn.ac.za | 031 260 7846 | |
| Ms Saira B. S. Karrim | Karimsb@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 7550 / 084 555 2175 | |
| Speech Impairments: Dysphagia | Professor Mershen Pillay | pillaym1@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 8109 / 0722553903 |
| Sport Science | Ms Khumbuzile Cynthia Khumalo | khumalok@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 7544 / 072 361 0413 |
| Sport Science, Exercise Physiology, Biokineticist, Exercise as Medicine | Dr Takshita Sookan | sookan@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 7987 / 0826390875 |
| Telemedicine, telehealth, eHealth, Sports Medicine, Health Informatics | Professor Maurice Mars | mars@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 4543 / 084 757 8321 |
| Trauma/ATLS/Systems of emergency care/Prehospital care and Research Ethics | Professor Tim Hardcastle | Hardcastle@ukzn.ac.za/ timothyhar@ialch.co.za | 082 468 1615 |
| Transgender Voice/Communication Transformation of Healthcare | Professor Mershen Pillay | pillaym1@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 8109 / 0722553903 |
| Urooncology | Dr Ehab Helmy Abdel Goad | abdelgoad@ukzn.ac.za |
031 208 8044 / 083 780 8044 |
| Virology | Dr Michelle Lucille Gordon | tarinm@ukzn.ac.za |
031 260 4779 / 072 938 2250 |