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[:en]Dr Dominique Eugene – Reflections of being an HBNU Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at Stellenbosch University[:]

[:en]Dr. Dominique Eugene, Ph.D., is a multicultural Haitian American who has been residing in Cape Town since October 2021. She is an early career clinical psychologist, a licensed marriage and family therapist, a registered play therapist, a certified trauma specialist, and an infant-family and early childhood mental health specialist focused…

[:en]Establishing the first Mindfulness degree in Africa[:]

[:en]Mindfulness is an inherent human capacity that can be cultivated intentionally through attending to personal phenomena (e.g. sensations, thoughts and feelings) and moving through the present moment with an attitude of kindness, curiosity and non–judgment. The formalisation of mindfulness as a clinical approach has received increasing attention in the last decade…

[:en]Department of Psychiatry Awards 2021[:]

[:en] (L to R: S. Maharaj, K. Rowe, C. Schumann, C. Lochner, M. Bowers, L.L van den Heuvel, P. Steyn, A. Lachman)   As 2021 comes to an end, and as is customary in the Department of Psychiatry, we have honoured members of the department and broader SU who have…

[:en]Doctor Eugene Hoyme Sanford Imagenetics Award[:]

[:en]Doctor H. Eugene Hoyme Dr. Hoyme serves as an advisor in genetics and genomic medicine at Sanford Health, the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine, and the University of Arizona. He also serves as the Medical Director of the Sanford Children’s Genomic Medicine Consortium, a formal collaborative in…