Core Faculty
Juanita Bezuidenhout, M.B.Ch.B., M.Med., Ph.D.
Dr. Juanita Bezuidenhout is a South African from Cape Town, qualified as a Histopathologist since 1993. She is currently a principal specialist, National Health Laboratory Services, at the Tygerberg/University of Stellenbosch where she is involved in curriculum development, design, and implementation at undergraduate and post-graduate levels. Dr. Bezuidenhout also currently serves as chairperson of the School for Basic and Applied Health Sciences post-graduate education task group, as well as the chairperson for the Federation of South African Societies of Pathology (FSASP), a newly founded sub-committee on post-graduate teaching and training. She is the convener of the departmental post-graduate program committee and M.Med. (Anat Path) exit examinations, and is involved in general diagnostic service and post-graduate training as well as ENT, pulmonary, and GIT pathology, specifically.
She has been a study leader for M.Med. dissertations and an advisor to Masters and Ph.D. dissertations. She was an undergraduate examiner at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, and at the forthcoming FSASP annual congress she is an invited speaker on post-graduate pathology training in South Africa. She has also been an invited speaker at the University of Addis Ababa, Glaxo-Wellcome, Stevenage, UK, and the FSASP Annual Congress 2004. She has published eight articles, and has had Congress presentations on an international level (15), a national level (25), and a faculty level (21). She is an established member of the international Glaxo-Wellcome Action TB research group, member of the Executive Committee of International Academy of Pathology, South African division. She has served on several university and faculty ad hoc committees.
Dr. Bezuidenhout has received the Rector’s Award for Teaching Excellence, the HP Wasserman trophy for Best Scientific Exhibition at the 46th Academic Year Day, Faculty of Health Sciences, and a Crossley Research Bursary.
