The First Private Teaching Hospital in South Africa, Johannesburg

The Inaugural WDGMC Research Day

The first WDGMC Research Day was held on 28 November 2014. It was a great success and we would like to thank Professors Beverly Kramer and Saraladevi Naicker for their support and attendance. Health Care Professionals from various clinical disciplines participated actively and much discussion and debate was generated. Thank you to all who shared their research with us and we look forward to a very successful event in 2015. The Research Day will be held on Friday 6th November 2015 so please diarise now!

Sister Belinda Rossi (centre) from the transplant unit raising an issue regarding organ procurement for discussion

(from left to right): Sisters Ronel Senekal, Martha Allens and Jane Hoole share some thoughts at the poster session


Oral Presentations at the WDGMC Research Day: 28 November 2014
    • India Butler: HIV infection in Older Adults
    • Taalib Monareng: Aortic bifurcation stenting in occlusive disease: A pilot study
    • Warren Lowman: Active Clinical Surveillance of Hospital-Acquired Infections in SA – Implementation, Impact and Challenges
    • David Anderson: The Phenotype of Huntington Disease Like 2 and the functional neurosurgical unit
    • Dean Lutrin: A Review of One Year of Major Gastrointestinal Surgery at WDGMC
    • Marshall Murdoch: Bridging the Gap: I-GAP Flap for Pelvic Reconstruction after Carcinoma of the Rectum
    • Harriet Etheredge: sweating the small stuff – Starting a dialogue about communication, ethics and transplant in Gauteng
    • Tina Sideris: Cognitive Function in End Stage Liver and End Stage Kidney Disease
    • Jenna Hill: Cognitive Functioning and Psychological Distress in Patients with Liver Disease
    • Dimakatjo Ramushu: Clinical Outcome Scores and Radiological Features in patients with Spinal Stenosis
    • Nadine Harran: The Efficacy of Porcine Dermal Collagen Injection (Permacol) for passive Fecal Incontinence
    • Daniel Surridge: Complications of the Procedure for Prolapse of Haemorrhoids: Bad Luck or Bad Surgery?

Dr Marshall Murdoch explaining his new plastic reconstructive surgical technique

Jenna Hill, Masters student in Department of Psychology, presenting her data from the WDGMC Liver Transplant Unit on Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy

Poster Presentation