Research Report 2006
Director: Professor George Swingler
SCHOOL OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH
DIVISION OF ASSOCIATED PAEDIATRIC DISCIPLINES
Head of Division: Dr Brenda Morrow
Divisional Profile
The Division of Associated Paediatric Disciplines is multi-disciplinary, including all the paediatric therapy professions of Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Dietetics/Nutrition, Speech Therapy, Audiology and Social Work. The Division undertakes undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training in all aspects of paediatric care, both acute and chronic. The Division is active in conducting research in Paediatric fields, often collaborating with members of other Divisions.
Divisional Statistics
Students
Permanent and long-term contract staff (PGWC)
Permanent staff (Full time)
|
23
|
Permanent staff (Part time)
|
4
|
Community service
|
9
|
Lecturer (UCT part-time)
|
1
|
Total
|
37
|
Research Fields and Staff
C. Brown
Social work; paediatric end of life issues
F. Camroodien-Sûrve
Speech therapy; early communication intervention
A. Ellis
Speech therapy; augmentative and alternative communication
L. Marino
Dietetics; development of paediatric nutrition risk screening tool with special reference to the anti-retroviral programme
B. Morrow
Physiotherapy; endotracheal suctioning; lung recruitment; aetiology of pneumonia in PICU; ventilator associated pneumonia; constraint-induced movement therapy.
V. Norman
Speech therapy; paediatric tracheotomies in early communication intervention; paediatric dysphagia
A. Parbhoo
Physiotherapy; paediatric burns rehabilitation
S. Rahim
Physiotherapy; physiotherapy in paediatric haemophilia; ventilator associated pneumonia
Contact Details
Postal Address: School of Child and Adolescent Health, Red Cross Children’s Hospital, Klipfontein Road, Rondebosch, 7700
Telephone: +27 21 658 5111
Fax: +27 21 689 1287
E-mail: bmorrow@ich.uct.ac.za
Web: http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/ich
SCHOOL OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH
DIVISION OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
Head of Division: Professor Alan Flisher
Divisional Profile
The clinical services associated with the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry are offered in the following units: Adolescent Outpatient Unit; Adolescent Day Unit; Child Outpatient Unit; Consultation-Liaison Unit; Outreach Unit: Parent-infant Mental Health Service; Therapeutic Learning Centre; and Training Unit. Training is provided for psychiatric registrars and clinical psychology interns. In addition, the Division offers a two-year M. Phil. (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry) degree, which leads to registration as a sub-specialist in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry with the Health Professions Council of SA. In addition, staff members in the Division are supervising about 12 candidates for masters’ or doctoral degrees. Research interests of Division staff include adolescent and infant mental health, suicidality, mental health services research and behavioural manifestations of HIV infection. An interdepartmental Adolescent Health Research Institute (AHRI) has been established in the Schools of Adult Clinical Medicine, Child and Adolescent Health, and Public Health and Family Medicine (Director: Professor Alan Flisher). Members of the Division are involved in two cluster randomized control trials of school-based HIV prevention programmes and have recently completed a research-based set of guidelines for the development of child and adolescent mental health policy and plans under contract for the World Health Organisation.
Divisional Statistics
Permanent and long-term contract staff
Professors
|
1
|
Senior Lecturers
|
7
|
Lecturers
|
1
|
Emeritus Professor
|
1
|
Honorary staff
|
2
|
Total
|
12
|
Students
Doctoral
|
5
|
Masters
|
11
|
Registrars
|
5
|
Total
|
21
|
*MBChB students rotate through the Division
Research Fields and Staff
Alan J. Flisher
Professor; adolescent risk behaviour, adolescent suicidality, mental health services research, school-based interventions
Brian Robertson
Emeritus Professor; child and adolescent psychiatric epidemiology; impact of violence on children; development of community mental health services; integration of mental health services at primary care level; youthful perpetrators of violent crime; cultural psychiatry and indigenous healers
Rod Anderson
Senior Lecturer; analytic psychotherapy
Astrid Berg
Senior Lecturer; analytic psychotherapy; infant mental health; culture and mental health
Willem de Jager
Senior Lecturer; inpatient child psychiatry; group therapy; organisational dynamics
Mona Roper
Senior Lecturer; parenting practises, community-based interventions
Nic Shortall
Senior Lecturer; mental health services research
Rene Nassen
Lecturer; paediatric consultation-liaison psychiatry; pervasive developmental disorders; behavioural manifestations of HIV infection
Marian Campbell
the relationship between developmental and attachment theories and theory of mind leading to the ability in children and adolescents to symbolize and develop reflective functions.
Contact Details
Postal Address: Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, School of Child and
Adolescent Health, Red Cross Children’s Hospital, 46 Sawkins Road, Mowbray, 7700
Telephone: +27 21 685 4103
Fax: +27 21 685 4107
E-mail: alan@rmh.uct.ac.za
Web: http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/ich
Please refer to the Psychiatry and Mental Health Research Report for publications by members of the Division: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
SCHOOL OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH
DIVISION OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND NEUROSCIENCES
Head of Division: Dr C. Adnams
Head of Child Development: Dr C. Adnams
Head of Paediatric Neurology: Associate Professor J. Wilmshurst
Head of Paediatric Neurosurgery: Associate Professor G. Fieggen
Divisional Profile
The division of paediatric neurosciences consists of the units of paediatric neurology, paediatric neurosurgery and child development. These specialities though diverse are complementary, and they highlight the benefits of a multidisciplinary approach to care of children with a wide spectrum of disability. The division operates at a secondary, tertiary and quaternary level. Combining the units under one division has allowed for comprehensive multidisciplinary approaches to clinical care and research.
Areas of clinical and research interest reflect the clinical need both locally and nationally. Collaborative research projects are underway with other departments within this university as well as other national and international research institutions.
Divisional Statistics
Permanent and long-term contract staff
Senior Lecturers
|
4 + 5/8
|
Lecturers
|
2
|
Total
|
6+ 5/8
|
Students
Research Fields and Staff
C. Adnams
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: neuropsychology, behaviour and interventions; early detection and intervention in developmental disability; neurobehavioural and cognitive outcomes of children with other developmental disabilities including HIV and neurofibromatosis
J. Wilmshurst
Spinal muscular atrophy; limb girdle muscular dystrophy; peripheral neuropathies;
congenital myopathies; complex epilepsies in childhood; role of video telemetry in
paediatric neurology practice; neurofibromatosis; paediatric spinal pathologies;
neuroradiological diagnostic and prognostic indicators of TBM, neurological
manifestations of HIV; rare neuromuscular disorders; psychological impact of epilepsy surgery; ketogenic diet in epilepsy
G. Fieggen
Stereotaxis (development of the Cape Town Stereotactic Pointer [CTSP] and a Neuronavigation system [SIIGNS]); functional disorders (surgery for spasticity/ epilepsy surgery program); congenital abnormalities including spinal dysraphism (tethered spinal cord); neuro-oncology (craniopharyngioma, ependymoma); neuro-endoscopy
A. Ndondo
Hydatid disease of the spine; epilepsies in childhood; the role of
neuromuscular biopsies in childhood; the ketogenic diet in the African context; Rett syndrome; optimal management of refractory status; non-polio enterovirus infections
V. Ramanjam
Phenotype, neuroimaging and neurocognitive characteristics of children with neurofibromatosis type 1; DAX1 mutation
A. Figaji
Traumatic Brain Injury (pathophysiology and critical care management; decompressive craniectomy); cerebral haemodynamics; hydrocephalus; neuroendoscopy; tuberculous meningitis
G. Riordan
Mitochondrial disease; ADHD
K. Walker
Sydenham's chorea; post streptococcal movement disorders
B. Schlegel
Tuberous sclerosis
P. Springer
Management and outcome in tuberculous meningitis; neurodevelopment in children with HIV/Aids (with Stellenbosch University)
F. van Bever Donker
Botulinum therapy in cerebral palsy
R. Govender
Acquired demyelinating disorders; specific neurological complications of HIV-1 infection; amyoplasia of the cervical cord
M. Richards
Congenital myasthenia gravis; head injuries in childhood
K. Donald
Gillespie syndrome; molecular genetics of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in South Africa
L. Jeavon
Use of melatonin for sleep EEG studies
Contact Details
Postal Address: Division of Child Development and Neurosciences, School of Child and Adolescent Health, Rondebosch Mowbray Hospital (RMH), 46 Sawkins Rd,
Rondebosch, 7700
Telephone: +27 21 685 4103
Fax: +27 21 689 5403
E-mail: colleen@rmh.uct.ac.za
Web: http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/ich
SCHOOL OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH
CHILD HEALTH UNIT AND CHILDREN’S INSTITUTE
Director: Rotating Acting Head
l. CHILD HEALTH UNIT
Unit Profile
The Child Health Unit’s mission is to contribute to promoting equity in child health. The core business of the Unit is directed at children’s public health and community-oriented child health promotion, protection, care and rehabilitation.
The target of the Unit’s endeavours is those areas, which have a strong children’s public health and interdisciplinary focus, viz. child development and disability, community nutrition, infectious diseases and health policy and service development. The Unit has close links with the Children’s Institute.
Unit Statistics
Permanent and long-term contract staff
Professors
|
2
|
Senior Lecturers
|
1
|
Lecturers
|
2
|
Honorary staff
|
1
|
Administrative staff
|
2
|
Total
|
8
|
Students
Masters
|
12
|
Postgraduate Senior Registrars
|
2
|
Total
|
14
|
Research Fields and Staff
M. Hendricks
Development of paediatric food-based dietary guidelines in South Africa; Vitamin A supplementation at primary health care clinics in the Western Cape; evaluation of tactile stimulation in infants born to HIV-infected mothers; management of children with severe malnutrition; review of nutrition policies and programmes in South Africa; human rights and nutrition.
G. Hussey
BCG vaccine efficacy in infancy and identifying correlates of immune protection; safety and immunogenicity of Hexavac in infants; natural history of TB and HIV infection in children and defining the optimal duration of therapy; efficacy of Lactobacillus in the treatment of diarrhoeal disease; interaction between nutrition, immunity and HIV infection
V. Ramanjam
Clinical and neurocognitive characteristics of children with neurofibromatosis type 2
M. Richardson
Outcome of head injury in children
R. Petersen
An audit of the management of children with severe malnutrition
C. Adnams
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: neuropsychology, behaviour and interventions; early detection and intervention in developmental disability; neurobehavioural and cognitive outcomes of children with developmental disabilities including HIV and neurofibromatosis.
J. Shea
Health promotion and education
D. Stupar (University of Oslo, Norway)
Human rights and nutrition
Contact Details
Postal Address: Child Health Unit, Children’s Centre, School of Child and Adolescent
Health, University of Cape Town, 46 Sawkins Road, Rondebosch, 7700
Telephone: +27 21 685 4103
Fax: +27 21 689 5403
E-mail: colleen@rmh.uct.ac.za
Web: http://web.uct.ac.za/depts
II. CHILDREN’S INSTITUTE
Acting Director: Dr Maylene Shung-King
Institute Profile
The Children’s Institute aims to contribute knowledge and understanding to promotion of policies which govern improvement of child well-being, and fulfillment of the rights of all South Africa’s children, with special emphasis on children rendered vulnerable by a range of difficult circumstances. It addresses the needs and rights of South African children through policy research and other academic activities that contribute to improvement in the policy analysis, formulation, implementation and evaluation processes.
Institute Statistics
Permanent and long-term contract staff
Researchers
|
16
|
Administrative Staff
|
5
|
Communication and Knowledge support staff
|
7
|
Total
|
28
|
Students
Research Fields and Staff
Kashifa Abrahams
Child health policy; child disability
Lizette Berry
Child socio-economic rights indicators; child poverty
Mira Dutshcke
Child rights; legislative review; law reform
Katharine Hall
Child poverty; socio-economic rights
Annie Leatt
Child poverty; child socio-economic rights indicators; social security for children
Tasneem Matthews
Child health services; firearm injuries and fatalities among children
Helen Meintjes
Children & HIV/AIDS; social policy; child participation, media
Double-Hugh Marera
Child poverty; Child socio-economic rights indicators; Survey data analysis
Namhla Mniki
Children affected by HIV/AIDS; child participation
Sue Moses
Residential care for children; children and HIV/AIDS; child participation
Wanjirŭ Mŭkoma
Children & HIV/AIDS policies & interventions
Paula Proudlock
Child rights; legislative review; law reform; socio-economic rights for children
Norma Rudolph
Child rights, action research & appreciative inquiry, education, HIV/AIDS and children, evaluation
Solange Rosa
Child rights; legislative review; law reform; socio-economic rights for children
Prinslean Mahery
Child rights: socio economic rights; children’s right to health care services, legislative review; law reform
Maylene Shung-King
Child health services and policies
Contact Details
Postal Address: Children’s Institute, Children’s Centre, University of Cape Town,
46 Sawkins Road, Rondebosch, 7700
Telephone: +27 21 689 5404
Fax: +27 21 689 8330/1287
E-mail: info@ci.org.za
Web: www.ci.org.za
SCHOOL OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH
DIVISION OF CRITICAL CARE AND CHILDREN’S HEART
DISEASE
Head of Division: Associate Professor Andrew Argent
I. Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
Unit Profile
The PICU is a multi-disciplinary unit, which undertakes post-graduate teaching and
training in general paediatric, surgical, and cardiac intensive care, with 6 rotating
registrars and 1-3 sub-specialist paediatric critical care trainees. Staff affiliated from
other Departments, including Clinical Technology, Physiotherapy, Psychiatry, and
Primary Health Care, are co-workers in research fields of joint interest.
Unit Statistics
Permanent and long-term contract staff
Associate Professors
|
1
|
Senior Lecturers
|
1
|
Total
|
2
|
Students
Doctoral
|
1
|
Masters
|
4
|
Total
|
5
|
Research Fields and Staff
Andrew Argent
Respiratory mechanics in croup; respiratory mechanics and endotracheal suctioning; care practices and inter-personal relationships in ICU; quality of care and mortality risk scoring
Shamiel Salie
Infection in the PICU
Brenda Morrow
Broncho-alveolar lavage; endotracheal tube suctioning; human metapneumovirus
Infection; ventilator associated pneumonia in paediatrics
II. Children’s Heart Disease Unit
Unit Profile
The Children’s Heart Disease Unit is responsible for the care of children with congenital and acquired heart disease. The Unit is jointly managed by one cardiothoracic surgeon and three cardiologists. We have a strong association with the Genetics Department and are fortunate to have a good relationship with private sector cardiologists and surgeons.
Unit Statistics
Permanent and long-term contract staff
Senior Lecturers
|
3
|
Honorary Staff
|
2
|
Sessional Staff
|
4
|
Total
|
9
|
Students
Research Fields and Staff
John Lawrenson
Myocarditis and cardiomyopathy – a retrospective review of patients admitted to Red
Cross Hospital since 1989; rheumatic fever in South African children; Thoracopagus conjoined twins
Rick de Decker
22q deletion; genetic associations with cardiac disease in children
Steve Shipton
Myocarditis and cardiomyopathy; surgical management of patients with a single
ventricle; rheumatic fever in South African children
John Hewitson
Resource allocation and cardiovascular disease; Trisomy 21 and cardiovascular
disease; surgical management of patients with a single ventricle
Contact Details
Postal Address: Division of Critical Care and Children’s Heart Disease, School of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Red Cross Children’s Hospital, Klipfontein Road, Rondebosch, 7700
Telephone: +27 21 658 5242/5103/5113
Fax: +27 21 689 1287
E-mail: aargent@ich.uct.ac.za
Web: http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/ich
SCHOOL OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH
DIVISION OF NEONATAL MEDICINE
Head of Division: Prof Clarissa H. Pieper
Divisional Profile
The Division of Neonatal Medicine provides care to 34 000 infants annually at Groote
Schuur Hospital (GSH), Mowbray Maternity Hospital (MMH) and New Somerset Hospital (NSH) and 6 Midwife Obstetric Units in the Peninsula Maternal and Neonatal Service. All three hospitals have neonatal intensive care units and provide all levels of care while only level I care is offered at the MOUs. While GSH cares for infants born in the tertiary maternal unit, Retreat and the quatrinary services needed in the Peninsula, MMH and NSH care for most infants born to mothers needing level II care as well as most infants referred from the MOUs. The clinical follow-up and developmental assessment of infants cared for in hospital is done at the MOUs. In this way the PMNS continues to provide all three levels of neonatal care in an integrated fashion (a true seamless service). This is a very efficient, cost effective and extensively evaluated model of health care, which must not be fragmented but be protected at all costs. The Comprehensive Heath Care plan has underlined the severe shortage of staff in this service.
The value of midwives and neonatal nurses as highly trained professionals must be respected and guarded. Lack of appropriate remuneration and promotions have led to ever reducing numbers of neonatally trained nurses and this continues to threaten the future of the PMNS. This is of great concern as the principles of the PMNS should be extended into a Perinatal service throughout the whole Province. Research has concentrated on the early recognition, management and follow-up of infants exposed to intra-partum hypoxia, infection risks and respiratory distress.
Divisional Statistics
Permanent and long-term contract staff
Associate Professors
|
2
|
Senior Lecturers
|
5
|
Lecturers
|
3
|
Part-time staff
|
1
|
Administrative staff
|
1.5
|
Total
|
10
|
Students
Registrars
|
6
|
Fellow in Neonatology
|
1
|
Total
|
7
|
Research Fields and Staff
Clarissa Pieper
Neonatal epidemiology; infection control; neonatal outcomes
David Woods
Perinatal distance education; wind up monitoring technology
Geoff Moller
Neonatal jaundice
Lucy Linley
Kangaroo mother care; HIE and the effect of head cooling
Clare Thomson
Follow-up of the high risk infant; HIE and the effect of head cooling
Adrie Bekker
Feeding of the neonate, Fetal Abnormality Group
Max Kroon
Mother-to-child transmission of HIV
Alan Horn
HIE and the effect of head cooling; cerebral function monitoring, Surfactant treatment therapeutic protocols
Natasha Rhoda
Therapeutic options for third world countries, outreach
Tharina van Heerden
Perinatal audit; Kangaroo mother care
Anika (Niki) van Niekerk
Neonatal cardiology
Marc Richards
Developmental medicine
Contact Details
Division of Paediatric Neonatal Medicine, School of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, H 46-63 OMB, Groote Schuur Hospital, Observatory, 7528
Telephone: +27 21 404 6025
Fax: +27 21 447 1660
E-mail: cpieper@uctgsh1.uct.ac.za
Web: http://web.uct.ac.za/depts
SCHOOL OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH
DIVISION OF PAEDIATRIC ANAESTHESIA
Head of Division: Professor Jenny Thomas
Divisional Profile
The Division of Paediatric Anaesthesia, a division of the Department of Anaesthetics (UCT) and SCAH, is responsible for the provision of anaesthesia for all children and neonates undergoing surgery or investigative procedures, provision of acute and chronic pain management in children and to assist in intensive care. The Unit is jointly managed by Principal Specialist, Dr A. Butt and assisted by two senior specialists, Drs Thomas and Ing. Professor Bösenberg, the 2nd Chair in Anaesthesia at UCT, is the Departmental representative for SCAH. He also manages the Departmental staffing portfolio and provides clinical assistance together with three rotating specialists. We are fortunate to have a good relationship with private sector who provide sessional back-up for an understaffed department. The department has no secretarial support and therefore no permanent office, telephone or fax. In addition to training and teaching of postgraduate and undergraduate students members of the department have lectured both nationally and internationally. They have also been involved with training and teaching in other disciplines; lecture general practitioners, pharmacists, emergency medicine students, paramedics, APLS instructors and Palliative care personnel.
Divisional Statistics
Permanent and long-term contract staff
Principal Specialist
|
1
|
Senior Specialist/Lecturers
|
1
|
Professor (seconded)
|
1
|
Specialist (Rotation)
|
3
|
Total
|
6
|
Research Fields and Staff
Adrian Bösenberg
Regional anaesthesia (RA) in neonates and children: use of ultrasound in RA; postoperative pain management; difficult airway: bronchoscopic findings in oesophageal atresia; muscle disease and anaesthesia including MH, anaesthesia in children with syndromes and metabolic disorders; anaesthesia audit
Jenny Thomas
Pain management in general but particular in children with burns; HIV; drug interactions in HIV pain management (HAART, TB statics, analgesics)
Tony Butt
Fluid management; epidural analgesia
Contact Details
Postal Address: Division of Paediatric Anaesthesia, School of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Red Cross Children’s Hospital, Klipfontein Road, Rondebosch, 7700
Telephone: +27 21 658 5003
Fax: +27 21 447 5206
E-mail: bosie@cormack.uct.ac.za
Web: http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/ich
SCHOOL OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH
DIVISION OF PAEDIATRIC MEDICINE
Head of Division: Professor G. Swingler
Divisional Profile
Paediatric Medicine is one of the largest divisions in the School of Child and Adolescent Health. It accommodates the substantial field of general paediatrics as well as the paediatric medical subspecialties with the exceptions of critical care, cardiology, neonatology, neurosciences and developmental paediatrics. The Division has extensive clinical responsibilities located at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Groote Schuur Hospital, Somerset Hospital, and Victoria Hospital. As well as providing clinical services these venues provide the major teaching sites for undergraduate and postgraduate training in Paediatrics and Child Health. The clinical scope of the division is broad and the research interests of its members are diverse. The leading child health problems of our society are well represented, particularly infectious diseases.
Divisional Statistics
Permanent and long-term contract staff
Professors
|
2
|
Associate Professors
|
9
|
Honorary Senior Lecturers
|
7
|
Senior Lecturers
|
13
|
Research Staff
|
22
|
Administrative and clerical staff
|
8
|
Total
|
61
|
Students
Postdoctoral
|
3
|
Doctoral
|
6
|
Medical Registrars
|
31
|
Masters
|
0
|
Undergraduate
|
454
|
Total
|
494
|
Research Fields and Staff
D.W. Beatty
Primary immune deficiency disorders; tuberculosis in childhood; paediatric infectious
disease
J. Burgess
Paediatric HIV/AIDS, paediatric infectious diseases
H. Buys
Ambulatory, emergency and outreach care; paediatric HIV disease and nutrition; diarrhoeal disease
A. Davidson
Management of HIV-associated malignancy; Wilms tumour management; the role of minimal residual disease in ALL risk stratification; outpatient management of febrile neutropaenia
S. Delport
Paediatric endocrinology; advance diabetes
F. Desai
Paediatric oncology
R. Diedericks
Respiratory disease; pulmonology; clinical diagnostic issues in tuberculosis; diagnosis of pertussis in infants
B.S. Eley
Primary immune deficiency disorders; paediatric tuberculosis; paediatric HIV/AIDS;
paediatric infectious disease
P. Gajjar
Cystinosis; bladder incontinence
E. Goddard
Paediatric liver disease; transplantation in children; immunology; paediatric infectious disease; paediatric gastroenterology and nutrition
P. Hartley
All aspects of paediatric oncology
L. Henley
Ethics affecting children; HIV/AIDS; chronic disorders in children adolescent medicine
J. Ireland
Diarroheal disease in children; paediatric liver disease; cystic fibrosis
M. Levin
Epidemiology of asthma and allergies in Xhosa school children; efficacy of a metered dose inhaler with bottle spacer for bronchodilator therapy in acute lower airways obstruction; methacholine challenge testing in the assessment of bronchial hyper-responsiveness in the field; evaluation of the consumption of peanut-containing foods amongst 4 to 36 month old black South African infants; significance of potato allergy in children with atopic eczema; language as a barrier to care for Xhosa-speaking patients; different use of medical terminology and culture-specific models of disease affecting communication between Xhosa-speaking patients and English-speaking doctors
M. Mann
Nuclear medicine
M. McCulloch
Renal disease; paediatric organ transplantation or; paediatric hypertension including Takayasu's Arteritis; acute renal failure and peritoneal dialysis; renal and liver transplantation especially infectious complications; paediatric HIV, nephropathy; adolescent medicine
C. Motala
Chronic urticaria; cytokine profiles in allergic asthmatic Xhosa children; latex allergy in Spina bifida patients; peanut allergy; measles immunization in egg-allergic children; anaphylaxis; allergy and asthma in pregnancy
J. Nuttall
Infectious diseases
A. Philotheou
Paediatric diabetes; adolescent medicine
L. Reynolds
End of life decision-making; home care of technology dependent children; clinical priority setting
M. Richards
Traumatic brain injuries; congenital myasthenia syndromes
P. Roux
Paediatric HIV/AIDS; ethics; palliative care
A. Spitaels
Paediatric endocrinology, metabolism and diabetes; social circumstances, diabetes control, intersex
G. Swingler
Systemic literature reviews; clinical epidemiology/evidence-based health care;
epidemiology of clinical research; research methods; diagnostic test accuracy;
diarrhoeal disease; respiratory infections
A.T. Westwood
First time seizures in paediatrics; epidemiology of cystic fibrosis in the Western Cape; epidemiology of chronic illness in South Africa; management of faecal loading; health systems for children with long-term health conditions; policy perspectives on children with long-term health conditions; clinical aspects of cystic fibrosis in South Africa
H. Zar
Paediatric pulmonology in particular childhood pneumonia, HIV-associated lung disease; cotrimoxazole and INH prophylaxis in HIV infected children; P jirovecii pneumonia; sputum induction; low cost spacer devices for children with asthma; epidemiology of childhood asthma
Contact Details
Postal Address: Division of Paediatric Medicine, School of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Red Cross Children’s Hospital, Rondebosch, 7700
Telephone: +27 21 658 5324
Fax: +27 21 689 1287
E-mail: swingler@ich.uct.ac.za
Web: http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/ich
SCHOOL OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH
DIVISION OF PAEDIATRIC PATHOLOGY
Head of Division: Associate Professor Colin C. Sinclair-Smith
Divisional Profile
The Division of Paediatric Pathology is primarily an NHLS laboratory service unit to Red Cross Children’s Hospital and to paediatric, neonatal and fetal services to other Western Cape Health Care Institutions. The pathology service functions as an amalgum of three sub units comprising: Anatomical Pathology, Chemical Pathology and Haematology. Undergraduate teaching activities are largely undertaken through equivalent disciplines at Groote Schuur Hospital and the Medical School of the University of Cape Town to medical and physiotherapy students. Post-graduate teaching is undertaken to MPhil (Paediatric Pathology), MMed (in all the pathology disciplines), BSc (hons), MSc and PhD students at UCT. Research activities are related to laboratory aspects of child health and molecular mechanisms underlying paediatric disease. This research is undertaken through collaborative projects at a national and international level, and which provides collaborative support to clinical colleagues, mainly in paediatrics and paediatric surgery.
Divisional Statistics
Permanent and long-term contract staff
Associate Professors
|
1
|
Emeritus Professors
|
2
|
Senior Lecturer
|
1
|
Lecturers
|
1
|
Admin Staff
|
0
|
NHLS Staff
|
40
|
Total
|
45
|
Students
Masters
|
0
|
Honours
|
0
|
Registrars
|
4
|
Total
|
4
|
Research Fields and Staff
Associate Professor Colin C. Sinclair-Smith
Pathology of Muscle; Congenital myopathies; renal neoplasms
Professor Ronald O.C. Kaschula
Paediatric gastroenterology; infections; nephroblastoma
Professor Langley R. Purves
Iron protein structure; genetics of diseases
Dr Margareth H.G. Shuttleworth
Immunophenotyping and cytogenetics of paediatric leukaemia; congenital coagulation disorders; Von Willebrand multimers; paediatric myelodysplastic syndromes; cytogenetics of paediatric lymphomas and neuroblastomas
Contact Details
Postal Address: Paediatric Pathology, School of Child and Adolescent Health,
University of Cape Town, Red Cross Children’s Hospital, Klipfontein Rd, Rondebosch, 7700
Telephone: +27 21 658 5208/49
Fax: +27 21 658 5249 or 689 1287
E-mail: cs-smith@ich.uct.ac.za
Web: http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/ich/
SCHOOL OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH
DIVISION OF PAEDIATRIC RADIOLOGY
Head of Division: Dr Richard Pitcher
Divisional Profile
A clinical radiology department providing imaging to all divisions in the School, performing a total of approximately 45000 examinations per annum. Imaging modalities include general and computerised radiography, digital fluoroscopy, ultrasound (including Doppler), computerised tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, angiography and interventional radiology. Postgraduate teaching for a total of four registrars from the University of Cape Town (3) and University of Stellenbosch (1) on an ongoing rotational basis. Undergraduate lectures at 5th year level. Ongoing rotational training in paediatric sonography for BTech (Ultrasound) students of the Cape Technikon.
Divisional Statistics
Permanent and Long-term Contract Staff
Senior Lecturers
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2
|
Lecturers
|
1
|
Radiographers and Aux. Staff
|
28
|
Total
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31
|
Students
PhD
|
1
|
Registrars/Masters
|
3
|
Total
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4
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