Access to health care and organ donation
When: | Monday, 12 March 2018 - Monday, 12 March 2018 |
Where: | Parktown Health Sciences Campus Marie Curie Lecture Theatre |
Start time: | 18:00 |
Enquiries: | Samkelo.Nsibande@wits.ac.za / 011 717-2190 |
The Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics will host this talk during the Ethics Alive Week.
Speakers include:
- Professor Roy Thomas (Chief Executive, Kidney Wales Foundation) on Playing God in Organ Donation
- Dr Shoyab Wadee (Nephrologist, Wits University and Donald Gordon Medical Centre) on Presumed Consent and Organ Shortage
- Professor Magda Slabbert (Professor of Law, Department of Jurisprudence, University of South Africa) on Presumed Consent with Routine Referral
- Professor Saraladevi Naicker (Chairperson - Ministerial Advisory Committee on Unrelated Organ Transplant) on Improving Kidney Transplant Rates in South Africa - Increasing Living Kidney Donation by Paired Exchanges and Donor Chains