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Saraladevi Naicker (South Africa) |
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Saraladevi Naicker is currently Academic Head of the Department of Internal Medicine and Professor of Renal Medicine and head of the Division of Nephrology at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She chairs the Postgraduate (Graduate Studies) Committee of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand. She is a member of the Council of the College of Physicians of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa. She is a Council member of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) and chairs its Education Committee.
She was the recipient of the Philip Tobias/ Convocation Distinguished Teachers Award at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2006, the International Distinguished Medal of National Kidney Foundation of the USA in 2005 and was awarded the prestigious Roscoe Robinson award for nephrology education by the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) at its World Congress in Milan in May 2009. She is the Arthur Landau Lecturer of the Colleges of Physicians of South Africa for 2010.
She has hosted the nephrology training of ISN Fellows from Ethiopia, Nigeria, Botswana, Tanzania, Rwanda, Kenya and Zambia as well as ISPD trainees from Nigeria and Tanzania. During her period as Chair of the Africa Committee of ISN COMGAN from 2000-2007, she made site visits and participated in CMEs in many African countries. Her interests are HIV and kidney disease, prevention of chronic kidney disease, CVD in renal disease and medical education.
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