The clinicians who teach at Medilearn

Dr Tari Papavarnavas completed his medical degree at University of Pretoria and trained in General Internal Medicine and subsequently in Infectious Diseases at University of Cape Town. He was appointed as an Infectious Diseases sub-specialist in the Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine at UCT in 2022.

Professor Bridget Hodkinson is a South African physician and rheumatologist trained at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in Soweto, with a research fellowship completed in France. She now leads the busy rheumatology unit at Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town.

First female Chair and Head of Medicine at UCT since the department's inception in 1920. Gastroenterologist, researcher, and mentor.

Jantina de Vries is founding and current director of the Ethics Lab and Professor of Medicine at the University of Cape Town. The Ethics Lab cultivates convivial scholarship for a more just world and fosters transformative ethics scholarship that centres Africa as the context and driver for global health ethics.

Professor Rannakoe Lehloenya, commonly referred to as Ranks, is a dermatologist and an associate professor at the University of Cape Town. His main interests include cutaneous adverse drug reactions, pigmentary disorders, and the anthropology of human perception of beauty.