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SAMA Annual Merit Awards 2011
Prof Bateman was one of the awards recipients at the SAMA Annual Merit Awards and
President's Dinner on 9th September 2011.
Professor Eric Bateman (back right) and other awardees and Council members of the South
African Medical Association at the award ceremony held in Gauteng on September 9th, 2011
at which Professor Bateman received a Gold Medal: Fellowship in the Art of Science of
Medicine award.
A Season of Honours for Pulmonology?
September 2011: “This must be the golden age of pulmonology at UCT” said Professor Bongani Mayosi, head of the Department of Medicine at a recent staff function. This view is supported by the several honours received by members of the Lung Institute and Division of Pulmonology in recent weeks. At the recent Annual Conference of the South African Thoracic Society held in Durban
- Dr Richard van Zyl Smit, doctoral research fellow and honorary consultant, with members of the Lung Infection and Immunity Unit received the Best Publication for 2010 award for his paper entitled “Within-subject variability and boosting of T cell IFN-g responses following tuberculin skin testing” published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
- Greg Calligaro, senior registrar and doctoral research fellow, received awards for the best abstract submitted and the best poster presentations for work on Metronome-Paced Tachypnoea, and Lung Function Changes in HIV-infected Cohort being Treated with Anti-retrovirals, respectively.
- Dr Hoosain Khalfey, research fellow and honorary consultant, was awarded the GlaxoSmithKline Respiratory Research Fellowship.
- Dr Brian Allwood, senior registrar and doctoral research fellow was awarded an AstraZeneca Research Award for his project on Tuberculosis-associated chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; a 5-year follow-up of the Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease project in Cape Town, South Africa.
Two other recent notable awards were:
- Dr Lara Fairall, Senior Researcher in the Knowledge Translation Unit was selected as one of the Mail and Guardian Top 200 Young South Africans You Must Take to Lunch!
- Professor Eric Bateman was awarded the Fellowship in the Art and Science of Medicine: Gold Medal from the South African Medical Association at its Annual Awards ceremony held in Kempton Park on 9th September 2011.
A feature of these awards is that they represent the range of research being undertaken in the Division and at the Lung Institute.
Helping comrades over the social upliftment line
SAMJ June, 2011; 101: 374-76 (Number 6) [...download article]
Student piques interest with her TB findings [...read article]
SA's unique wildlife comes with unique allergens
Business Day – 7 June 2011 [...download article]
When a bee is more than just a bee
Sunday Times – 29 May 2011 [...download article]
New MDR-TB diagnostic tool
Die Burger – 15 April 2011 [...download article]
Dr Keertan Dheda wins Union Award
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Dr. Keertan Dheda, Associate Professor of Respiratory Medicine, based within the Department of Medicine, at the University of Cape Town, was the recipient of the 2010 “Union Scientific Award”. The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IUATLD) is an international society that bestows an annual global award to a researcher under the age of 45 who has made an outstanding contribution to the field of tuberculosis and/or lung disease. Dr. Dheda received the prestigious award at the 2010 IUATLD meeting in Berlin for his contributions to the fields of diagnostics and drug-resistant tuberculosis. His work was recently published in The Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine, and the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, and addresses challenges in managing patients with XDR-TB, drug-resistant TB in health care workers, and enhancing the rapid diagnosis of TB. This work was funded by the EDCTP, NIH, South African MRC and the South African Department of Science and Technology (SARChI). The award was presented to Dr. Dheda on behalf of the Union by Dr. Michael Kimerling of the Gates Foundation'. [...read more]
Watch the movie: 'Opening of the World Conference'
SABC interview
SABC Interview on collapsed lungs
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Radio interview
Radio Interview about XDR-TB with SAFM, the leading national news channel
[...download MP3 file] 29.9 MB
Courses:-
1. Grant writing and manuscript preparation course [...download course info]
2. Biostats course programme [...download course info] [...download slides]
3. XDR TB course programme [...download course info] [...download slides]
Xpert TB diagnostic highlights gap in point-of-care pipeline [...download article]
SA Health Workers Getting Deadly TB
Cape Times – 21 September 2010 [...download article]
TB workshop commentary
Monday Paper – 13-26 September 2010 [...download article]
Keertan Dheda serves on American Thoracic Society
MTPI
committee 2009-2010
Left to right. BACK ROW: Ed Chan, Stephen Gordon, Keertan Dheda,
Charles Feldman, Mark Metersky; FRONT ROW: Sam Moskowitz,
Adithya Cattamanchi,
Carol Hamilton, Marcos Restropo, Scott Evans, Adrian Rendon
Multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis:
a threat to global control of tuberculosis.
The Lancet – May 2010 [...read more] or
[...download article]
Early treatment outcomes and HIV status of patients with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa:
a retrospective cohort study. The Lancet – May 2010
[...read more] or
[...download article]
Infection control 'urgently needed' to curb spread of XDR-TB among health care workers [...read more]
XDR tuberculosis in South Africa: old questions,
new answers [...read more]
TB hits health workers
Mail & Gaurdian 14-20 May 2010 [...download article]
World TB Day 2010
The Lung Infection and Immunity Unit of the University of Cape Town would like to join with the rest of the world in commemorating World TB day today, Wednesday the 24th of March, 2010. The Unit would like to take the opportunity to re-affirm its commitment to improving heath care through research, continued development of diagnostic techniques and dedicated patient care. We are also pleased to announce the publication 'Clinical utility of a commercial LAM-ELISA assay for TB diagnosis in HIV-infected patients using urine and sputum samples', published in PLoS ONE today. [...download article]
Bulletin of UK TB Research [...download article]
World TB Day 2010:
Eradicating tuberculosis in
sub-Saharan Africa needs effective and committed north-south
partnerships [...download article]
World TB Day 2010 – New innovations are required for
enhancing the global fight against Tuberculosis: the
‘Captain of
all these men of death’ [...download article]
Lung Infection and Immunity Unit in the news!
Kiss of Life for lung-infection research [...download article]
Argus – 23 October 2009
Doctor raises questions over TB skin testing [...download article]
Monday Paper – 26 October - 8 November 2009
- Success in triplicate for TB researchers [...download article]
- Researcher puts TB screening to the test [...download article]
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