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UCT Research Report '11
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Departmental Statistics
Permanent and long-term contract staff
Professors
3
Associate Professors
7
Emeritus Professors
6
Emeritus Associate Professors
7
Honorary Senior Lecturers
12
Honorary Lecturers
2
Senior Lecturers (full time)
30
Lecturers (full time)
5
Senior Lecturers (part time)
12
Lecturers (part-time)
15
Research Ethics Co-ordinator
1
Research Staff
30
Administrative and clerical staff
16
Total
146
Students
Doctoral
8
Master’s
31
- MPhil
40
Undergraduate
454
Total
533
Research Fields and Staff
A. 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;
management of traumatic brain injury in PICU; HIV in the
PICU; ventilator associated pneumonia; cardiomyopathy /
myocarditis in children; ethical issues in resource allocation.
D.W. Beatty
Primary immune deficiency disorders; tuberculosis in
childhood; paediatric infectious disease.
H. Buys
Ambulatory, emergency and outreach care; paediatric HIV
disease and nutrition; diarrhoeal disease.
M. Carrihill
Type 1 diabetes in the South African youth; Neonatal
screening programmes; Disorders of sex development.
A. Davidson
HIV-related malignancy; the impact of ethnicity on Acute
Lymphoblastic Leukaemia; Wilms’ Tumour; Supportive Care.
Rick de Decker
22q deletion; genetic associations with cardiac disease
in children.
R. De Lacy
Cystic fibrosis; gastroenterology.
S. Delport
Paediatric endocrinology; advance diabetes.
F. Desai
Paediatric oncology.
R. Diedericks
Emergency paediatrics; common infectious diseases.
K. Donald
Gillespie syndrome; molecular genetics of Duchenne
Muscular Dystrophy in South Africa.
B.S. Eley
Primary immune deficiency disorders; paediatric
tuberculosis; paediatric HIV/AIDS; paediatric infectious
disease.
E. Goddard
Paediatric liver disease; transplantation in children;
immunology; paediatric infectious disease; paediatric
gastroenterology and nutrition.
M. Harrison
Neonatal epidemiology; infection control; neonatal
outcomes.
M. Hendricks
Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in a developing world setting.
L. Henley
Research ethics in general. Ethical and legal issues in
research with children.
J. Hewitson
Resource allocation and cardiovascular disease; Trisomy
21 and cardiovascular disease; surgical management of
patients with a single ventricle.
A. Horn
HIE and head cooling methodology; cerebral function
monitoring, Surfactant treatment therapeutic protocols.
M. Kroon
Mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
M. Levin
Genotypic and phenotypic features of allergic Xhosa
children; relationship between food allergy and atopic
dermatitis; communication issues in management of
asthma and allergy in indigenous people in South Africa
P. Gajjar
Renal disease; paediatric organ transplantation especially
infectious complications; paediatric hypertension including