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Health Sciences
with UCT and supports State and Private Health Care
facilities in the Western Cape and other provinces which
do not have a dedicated Paediatric Nuclear Medicine
Service. In addition, staff actively participate in the Division
of Nuclear Medicine at Groote Schuur Hospital.
Registrars from a number of institutions spend time at
the Children’s Hospital as part of their training, as do
radiography students from Groote Schuur Hospital. Other
activities include participation in International Congresses
and the College of Nuclear Physicians.
Statistics
Permanent and long term contract staff
Senior specialist
1
Part-time specialist / Emeritus Associate Professor
1
Total
2
Students
Registrars
1
Total
1
Research fields
Renal scintigraphy, “milk” scans in gastro-intestinal
motility disorders, limb perfusion in children with vascular
compromise due to infection or burns, PET/CT applications
in children, and brain perfusion scintigraphy.
Contact Details
Postal address: Paediatric Nuclear Medicine, School of
Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Red
Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Klipfontein Road,
Rondebosch, 7700, Cape Town, South Africa.
Tel: +27 21 6585367
Web: http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/ich
UCT General enquiries: +27 21 650 9111
UCT web: http://www.uct.ac.za
Department Of Paediatrics
And Child Health
Affiliated Disciplines
Paediatric Pathology
Head of Histopathology Unit: Dr K. Pillay
Unit profile
The Unit of Paediatric Pathology is primarily an NHLS
laboratory service unit to Red Cross Children’s Hospital
and provides paediatric and neonatal services to other
Western Cape Health Care Institutions. The pathology
service functions as an amalgam 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.
Postgraduate teaching is undertaken to MPhil (Paediatric
Pathology), MMed (in all the pathology disciplines), and
MSc and PhD students at UCT. Research activities are
related to laboratory aspects of child health and molecular
mechanisms underlying paediatric disease. Research also
undertaken through collaborative projects with clinical
colleagues, mainly in paediatrics and paediatric surgery.
Unit Statistics
Permanent and long-term contract staff
Senior Lecturers
3
NHLS Staff
40
Total
43
Students
Registrars
3
Total
3
Research Fields and Staff
Dr Margaret H.G. Shuttleworth
Molecular genetics of paediatric leukaemias and
neuroblastomas; paediatric myelodysplastic syndromes.
Dr Komala Pillay
Pathology of muscle; pathology of placentas from HIV
positive patients; lymphomas.
Dr George van der Watt
Inherited metabolic disorders.