Professor Bongani Mayosi
Professor Bongani Mawethu Mayosi (BMedSci, MB ChB, FCP(SA), DPhil, OMS) was the embodiment of a visionary medical researcher, a nurturing teacher, an inspiring mentor and a caring doctor. He had an immense impact on the lives of academics, patients and ordinary citizens. His rare combination of academic brilliance, vision, and tenacity combined with charm, an infectious smile, and deep humility, made everyone who came into contact with him feel special and empowered. Bongani Mayosi’s humility and leadership was nurtured in rural Eastern Cape Province where, at only 15 years old, he received the province’s highest marks in matric. At the age of 16 he enrolled at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, where he was the first person to graduate with two concurrent degrees, MB ChB and BMedSci, both with distinction. After he specialised in Cardiology at UCT, he studied at the University of Oxford on a Nuffield Fellowship for a Doctor of Philosophy in Medicine. He returned to South Africa to pursue his career as a clinician scientist and cardiologist at Groote Schuur Hospital and UCT. He was later appointed as Groote Schuur Hospital and UCT’s first Black African Head of Medicine, developing it into one of the continent’s most successful and productive departments of Medicine. His academic leadership was recognised through his appointment as the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, providing the opportunity to live out his dream of nurturing the next generation of health researchers and practitioners.
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Bongani Mayosi’s humility and leadership was nurtured in rural Eastern Cape Province where, at only 15 years old, he received the province’s highest marks in matric. At the age of 16 he enrolled at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, where he was the first person to graduate with two concurrent degrees, MB ChB and BMedSci, both with distinction.
After he specialised in Cardiology at UCT, he studied at the University of Oxford on a Nuffield Fellowship for a Doctor of Philosophy in Medicine. He returned to South Africa to pursue his career as a clinician scientist and cardiologist at Groote Schuur Hospital and UCT.
He was later appointed as Groote Schuur Hospital and UCT’s first Black African Head of Medicine, developing it into one of the continent’s most successful and productive departments of Medicine. His academic leadership was recognised through his appointment as the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, providing the opportunity to live out his dream of nurturing the next generation of health researchers and practitioners.
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