GALENOS: meet the fellows

GALENOS: Global Alliance for Living Evidence on aNxiety, depressiOn and pSychosis   Introducing the Fellows: Dr. Elugbadebo Olufisayo, MBBS, MSc, FWACP is an early career clinical and academic psychiatrist. She is a consultant psychiatrist at the University College Hospital, a lecturer at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and the Vice President…

GALENOS – Overview

  GALENOS: Global Alliance for Living Evidence on aNxiety, depressiOn and pSychosis   A new living evidence resource of early phase research for research prioritisation in mental health.   The number of research publications is increasing every day, in all scientific areas including mental health. This makes it increasingly more…

From the U.S. National Institutes of Health to Stellenbosch University: African neuroethics researcher joins the Department of Psychiatry

On 1 October 2023, Dr. Olivia Matshabane, a neuroethics researcher, joined the SAMRC/SU Extramural Unit on the Genomics of Brain Disorders in the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) at SU on permanent appointment. Dr Matshabane joins us from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH), National…

Anusha Lachman and the Tygerberg Children’s Hospital Trust receives Stavros Niarchos Foundation grant to create a holistic healing environment in the Adolescent Psychiatry Unit

Dr. Anusha Lachman, head of the Adolescent Psychiatry Unit at Tygerberg Hospital and senior lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry, Stellenbosch University, together with the Tygerberg Hospital Children’s Trust (THCT), a non-profit organization patronaged by The Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation, received a R3.4 million grant from the Stavros…

Music for Child Mental Health Concert

By Kirsten Rowe on behalf of the organising committee; photos by Domenic Gorin.   Mental illness is a huge contributor to the aggregate burden of “years lived with disability”. Half of all mental illness starts before the age of 14-years-old. Resource allocation to mental health care is generally limited and…

Getting to know our registrars: 2023 – Part II

Drs Jacqueline Holdsworth-Jenkins, Luzanne van der Colff, Nikita Hagroo, Shazia Jassat, and Zikhona Cwayi joined the department as psychiatry registrars in August 2023.   Dr. Jenkins has taken many years to find herself in a career that resonates with her values formed from the richness and diversity of past experiences.…

Prof Willie Pienaar’s publishes a book – “SOBER”

Prof Willie Pienaar, an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Psychiatry with more than 40 years of experience in healthcare (clinical and academic) published a book in Afrikaans titled ‘Sober – n’ Pratiese gid na vryheid van verslawing’.   What inspired Prof Piennar to write this book? As clinicians, educationists,…

MSc in Neuroscience – new degree in the Department of Psychiatry

In 2023, the Department of Psychiatry enrolled the first students for the new MSc in Neuroscience degree, a research-based programme with no study modules. The aim of the programme is to train researchers who can contribute toward the biopsychosocial understanding of neuropsychiatric disorders and develop much-needed research capacity in neuroscience in…

Getting to know our registrars: 2023 – Part I

Dr’s Angus Fletcher,  Kholofelo Morodi, Musa Ngwenya, and Sinombulelo Booi joined the MMed (Psychiatry) programme in February 2023.   Dr. Flecther completed his MBChB degree at the University of Pretoria after growing up under the purple canopy of the Jacaranda trees. He then set his sights on Cape Town, where…