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PROF SR BENATAR
Solomon R Benatar is Professor of Medicine and Founding Director of the University of Cape Town's Bioethics Centre. He was Professor of Medicine, Chairman of the University of Cape Town's (UCT) Department of Medicine and Chief Physician at Groote Schuur Hospital from 1980-1999. Additional appointments that he currently holds include: Visiting Professor in Public Health Sciences and Medicine at the University of Toronto, and Director of a United States National Institutes of Health and Fogarty International Center funded program for capacity building in International Research Ethics in southern Africa. He is an advisor on medical ethics to the HIV Trials Prevention Network (USA) and Medecins Sans Frontieres and Past President of the International Association of Bioethics. His academic interests have ranged from respiratory medicine, academic freedom, medical ethics and the humanities in medicine, to human rights, health care systems, health economics and global health - on which topics he has published over 230 journal articles and book chapters.
DR ABOSEDE BOLA
Dr Abosede Bola Ofi is a Senior Lecturer and the current Head, Department of Nursing. A UK trained nurse who had her BSc Nursing Education, MEd, MPhil and PhD in Educational Management. She is certified in Health Assessment by University of Botswana, Quality Improvement in Nursing by British Council, Oxford and Medical Assessment by the University of Dundee. She has won many awards, grants and prizes and she is a member of several learned society at home and abroad. Dr Bola Ofi is a seasoned teacher, effective manager and resourceful researcher with a number of publications in peer reviewed journals. Her research areas are: Mother to Child transmission of HIV, Nursing education, Research utilization in Nursing practice and Adolescent health.
PROF GEORGE ELLISON
George, TH Ellison is Professor of Health Sciences at St George’s, University of London and Associate Editor of Critical Public Health. His research focuses on social inequalities in health, the use of race/ethnicity in biomedical research, HIV/AIDS and the development of evidence-informed policy and practice. This has culminated in the publication of two edited volumes: Learning from HIV and AIDS (with Cathy Campbell and Melissa Parker) published in 2002 by Cambridge University Press; and The Nature of Difference: Science, Society and Human Biology (with Alan Goodman) published in 2006 by Taylor and Francis. He is currently a member of several inter-disciplinary teams researching the role of racial/ethnic categories in pharmacogenetics research funded by the Wellcome Trust, and two British Council-funded projects: the first developing training for evidence-informed decision-making for HIV prevention, treatment and care in sub-Saharan Africa; the second building inter-disciplinary support for biotechnology and the new genetics in Africa.
1 http://www.criticalpublichealth.net/
2 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/igbis/reg/
JOHN GOWERS
John Gowers has a background in electronics and instrumentation and had gained City and Guilds qualifications He also obtained credits from the Open University. He has been working with medical electronics in the Dopler field for over 30 years.
Currently he is Business Development Manager for Huntleigh Healthcare Ltd.
HESTER KLOPPER
Hester Klopper is professor and director in the School of Nursing Science at North West University (Potchefstroom Campus). Previously she was Co-Director of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Nursing and Mental Health, at the University of Alberta, Canada. She received her PhD from the University of Johannesburg.
Her research interests are:
Leadership development within a Social Capital framework
Scholarship in Nursing Science
International Health
Quality of life and well being of the older person.
She has served in a management capacity on many national and international boards and organizations and notably within STTI (Sigma Theta Tau International).
Her publications range from 10 monographs, textbooks and chapters in textbooks and more than 25 national and international articles in peer-reviewed journals.
We are looking forward in welcoming you in Bloemfontein!!