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Professor Ames Dhai
Director and Head - Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics
Head - Bioethics Discipline of the Faculty of Health Sciences
Editor in Chief - South African Journal of Bioethics and Law
Contact details: amaboo.dhai@wits.ac.za or 011 717 2718 / 2635
Qualifications: MBChB (Natal), FCOG (SA), LLM (Natal), PGDip.IntResEthics (UCT).
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Professor Peter Cleaton-Jones
Chair - Human Research Ethics Committee (Medical)
Honorary Adjunct Professor - Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics
Contact details: peter.cleaton-jones@wits.ac.za or 011 717 2301 / 2635
Qualifications: BDS (Wits), MBBCh (Wits), PhD (Wits), DScDent (Wits), FCD (CMSA), DTM&H (Wits), DPH(Wits), DA(CMSA), PhD Honoris causa (Medunsa), MASSAf.
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Jillian Gardner
Lecturer and Academic Coordinator of Postgraduate Studies - Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics
Contact details: jillian.gardner@wits.ac.za or 011 717 2719
Qualifications: BA (Rhodes), LLB (NMMU), MScMed Bioethics and Health Law (Wits).
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Dr. Norma M Nongauza-Tsotsi
Lecturer and Academic Director of Undergraduate Studies, Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics
Contact details: norma.tsotsi@wits.ac.za or 011 717 2634
Qualifications: BChD (Bucharest), MPH (Wits.), PG Dip Int Res Ethics (UCT), MSc Med Bioethics and Health Law (Wits).
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Dr Kevin Behrens
Lecturer
Qualifications: BA (Natal), Hons BTh (Unisa) (cum laude), MA (Wits) (cum laude), D Litt et Phil (UJ)
Kevin is interested in all aspects of ethics, particularly applied ethics. His research focus in the past few years has been on African Thought and Philosophy and Environmental Ethics. He is keen on developing this work further by researching some of the implications of African Philosophy and Thought for Bioethics.
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Dr Bazil Shaughn Fick
Lecturer – Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics
Qualifications: MBBCh (Wits), PGD (Applied Ethics) (Wits), Msc Med (Bioethics and Health Law) (Wits).
Dr Fick is a Medical Practitioner, an Anaesthetist and an Ethicist with an interest in business management. He strives to keep informed in new developments in his fields of expertise in order to offer the best care to his patients at Garden City Clinic, Fordsburg Clinic and at his private practice in Eldorado Park. Dr Fick serves on the boards of Unicoc Investments, Andryan Investments and Fordsburg Clinic – all of which he Chairs.
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Professor Eleanor Ross
Lecturer – Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics
Professor of Social Work
Qualifications: BA Social Work (Wits); MA Social Work cum laude) (Wits); PhD (Wits)
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Robyn Fellingham
Associate Lecturer – Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics
Contact details: Robyn.Fellingham@wits.ac.za or 011 717 2663
Qualifications: BA (Honours in Philosophy) (Wits), MScMed (Bioethics and Health Law) awaiting Examiner’s report.
Research interests: Compassionate/decent/just societies and state responsibility in health related matters |
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Roxanne Logarsperan
Administrator – Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics
Contact details: Roxanne.Logarsperan@wits.ac.za or (011) 717 2635
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Kurium Govender
Administrative Assistant - Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics
Contact details: Kurium.Govender@wits.ac.za or (011) 717 2190
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Honorary Lecturers
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Professor Merryll Vorster
Honorary Lecturer - Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics
Qualifications: MBBCH (Wits), MMed Psychiatry (Wits), BA (UNISA), PhD Medicine (Wits), Certificate in Medicine and Law (UNISA), Dip. International Research Ethics (UCT).
Professor Vorster is Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is a psychiatrist by training and is committed to bioethics at Wits University. She is dedicated to the protection of vulnerable populations in research, as evidenced by her active involvement in Research Ethics Committees at Wits. Prof. Vorster's special interest is research ethics.
Professional boards and committees and other responsibilities: Co-chair: Wits Human Research Ethics Committee (Medical); Chair: Wits Human Research Ethics Committee (Humanities)
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Professor Trefor Jenkins
Honorary Professor - Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics
Qualifications: MD (London), Honorary MD (Wits), Honorary Doctor of Science (UCT).
Professor Jenkins has made a very significant contribution to medicine, ethics and genetics at Wits University. Professor Jenkins is currently Professor Emeritus and Honorary Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of Human Genetics, National Health Laboratory Services. He has been an honorary professor at the Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics since 2007. Professor Jenkins special interest is ethical issues in genetics.
Professional boards and committees and other responsibilities: Honorary Fellow of the College of Medicine, University of Whales, Cardiff
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