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| h1 Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town | h1 Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town |
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| h2 ANAESTHESIA | h2 ANAESTHESIA |
| * Cardiac anaesthesia | * Cardiac anaesthesia |
| * Cardiac surgery | * Cardiac surgery |
| * Liver transplants | * Liver transplants |
| * Separation of conjoined twins | * Separation of conjoined twins |
| * Burns unit | * Burns unit |
| * Multi-discipline Paediatric Intensive Care Unit | * Multi-discipline Paediatric Intensive Care Unit |
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| Supports following ICUs | Supports following ICUs |
| * Respiratory intensive care unit | * Respiratory intensive care unit |
| * Surgical intensive care unit | * Surgical intensive care unit |
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| Centre for Pain Management | Centre for Pain Management |
| * Patients with chronic pain | * Patients with chronic pain |
| * Acute pain service available for postoperative patients | * Acute pain service available for postoperative patients |
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| h2 CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH | h2 CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH |
| * Full range of paediatric disciplines | * Full range of paediatric disciplines |
| •Paediatric medicine | •Paediatric medicine |
| •Paediatric surgery | •Paediatric surgery |
| •Paediatric nursing | •Paediatric nursing |
| •Paediatric pathology | •Paediatric pathology |
| •Paediatric radiology | •Paediatric radiology |
| •Paediatric anaesthetics | •Paediatric anaesthetics |
| •Paediatric pulmonology | •Paediatric pulmonology |
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| * Children’s public health | * Children’s public health |
| * Pathology | * Pathology |
| * Psychiatry in maternal and child health | * Psychiatry in maternal and child health |
| * Child and adolescent psychiatry | * Child and adolescent psychiatry |
| * Child health unit | * Child health unit |
| * Critical care and children’s heart disease | * Critical care and children’s heart disease |
| * Neonatology | * Neonatology |
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| | Clinical Services: |
| | * Ambulatory and emergency |
| | * Allergy |
| | * Community |
| | * Dermatology |
| | * Diabetes |
| | * Endocrine |
| | * Gastroentenology, heptatology and nutrition |
| | * Haematology / oncology |
| | * Infectious diseases and immunology |
| | * Nuclear medicine |
| | * Poisons |
| | * Rheumatology |
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| | h2 CLINICAL LABORATORY SCIENCES |
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| | h3 A. ANATOMICAL PATHOLOGY |
| | * Diseases common in SA: |
| | • Tuberculosis |
| | • Cardiomyopathy |
| | • Foetal-alcohol syndrome |
| | * Various cancers: |
| | • Oesophageal |
| | • Gastric |
| | • Breast |
| | • Cervical |
| | • Colorectal and hepatocellular carcinomas |
| | • Childhood cancers |
| | * Renal and liver pathology |
| | * Neonatal pathology |
| | * Neuropathology |
| | * Immunohistochemisty |
| | * Electron microscopy |
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| | h3 B. CHEMICAL PATHOLOGY |
| | * Deals with metabolic disease |
| | * Basic biochemistry |
| | * Cell biology |
| | * Molecular biology |
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| | h3 C. FORENSIC MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY |
| | * Violence against women and children |
| | * Role of drugs and toxins in death |
| | * Firearm injuries |
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| | h3 D. HAEMATOLOGY |
| | * Outpatient clinics |
| | * Diagnostic and research laboratories |
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| | h3 E. HUMAN GENETICS |
| | * Primary health care in community outreach clinics |
| | * Highly sophisticated quaternary services |
| | * Heritable disorders which cause childhood handicap incl: |
| | • Blindness |
| | • Crippling |
| | • Profound deafness |
| | • Mental retardation |
| | * Clinical rotations in prenatal, paediatric and adult medical genetics incl exposure to: |
| | • Dysmorphology |
| | • Teratogenic disorders |
| | • Metabolic disorders |
| | • Neurogenetics |
| | • Cardiogenetics |
| | • Cancer genetics |
| | * Theoretic and practical education in genetic counselling and communication |
| | * Lab rotations in cytogenetics and molecular genetics |
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| | h3 F. IMMUNOLOGY |
| | * Immunology of infectious diseases |
| | * Innate immunity and allergy |
| | * Important advances in diseases e.g. |
| | • Tuberculosis |
| | • Bilharzia |
| | • African Trypanosomiasis |
| | • T-cell cykotine responses to allergens (immunotherapy) and mTB protein |
| | • Clinical trials in UCT Lung Institute conducted in areas of: |
| | o Antihistamines |
| | o Asthma |
| | o Eczema |
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| | h3 G. MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTRY |
| | * GnRH receptors, signalling, structure function and as target for development of therapeutics for treatment of reproductive cancers |
| | * Role of cyclooxygenases and prostaglandins in cervical cancer and other uterine pathologies |
| | * Identification of differentially regulated genes associated with the development of cervical cancer |
| | * The role of the transcription factor AP-1 in oncogenesis |
| | * Molecular mechanisms involved in the development and maintenance of oesophageal cancer |
| | * Identification and characterisation of novel compounds that can be used in the treatment of cancer |
| | * Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) Structure activity relationships and development of ACE inhibitors for treatment of hypertension, congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction and renal disease |
| | * Application of functional proteomics for diagnostics, drug and vaccine development for infectious disease and cancers |
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| | h3 H. MEDICAL VIROLOGY |
| | * referral laboratory for a large proportion of the regional virus identification |
| | * members are part of national and international programmes to: |
| | • discover an effective vaccine against HIV |
| | • developed candidate HIV vaccines that have been tested in clinical trials |
| | * participates in the WHO human papillomavirus laboratory network (Labnet) |
| | * collaborating partner in the WHO African AIDS Vaccine Collaborative Centre in Biomedical Research |
| | * interest in working on development of novel diagnostic tools for some of the more neglected but still clinically relevant viral diseases that are common in Africa |
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| | h3 I. MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY |
| | * full range of microbiological diagnostic services including state-of-the-art molecular diagnostics |
| | * involved in research activities: |
| | • basic science |
| | • clinical and diagnostic trials |
| | * defining the epidemiology and strain biology of major infectious diseases in Southern Africa |
| | * Important areas of research focus on: |
| | • Tuberculosis |
| | • Bacterial antibiotic resistance |
| | • Nosocomial pathogens |
| | • Outbreak surveillance |
| | * developing and evaluating novel diagnostics which are applicable in low-resource settings |