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Prof Mashiko Setshedi

Chair and Head of the Department of Medicine, UCT and Groote Schuur Hospital

Professor Mashiko Setshedi became the first woman appointed as the St Anne’s Trust Chair and Head of Medical Gastroenterology at Groote Schuur Hospital and UCT in 2018, and in 2024 the first female Chair and Head of Medicine since the department’s inception in 1920. She is a distinguished physician, researcher and educator. The conversation below is shaped by her mentorship-led teaching style.