Fellow of Academy of Nursing South Africa

I qualified as a nurse and midwife in 1982 and obtained post-grad Diploma in Intensive Nursing Science in 1985. I spent a year on a kibbutz in Israel milking cows and trying to learn how to read from right to left.

I worked in cardio-thoracic ICU until 1998 when I joined Netcare Transplant Division in Cape Town. I completed the Transplant Procurement Management (TPM) Diploma in Spain in 2000. I have presented at every SA Transplant Congress since 1999 and at several international congresses. I have been a transplant coordinator for 28 years and have served on Organ Donor Foundation and SA Transplant Society in the past. I have recently been elected Chairperson for SA Transplant Coordinator Society. More recently I was a guest speaker at ISODP in Kyoto, Japan. I remain the flight coordinator for the ODF in a volunteer capacity, and I maintain my interest in aviation. I obtained my private pilots license in 2001 and flew actively for many years. I remain an aircraft stalker on Flight Radar. My other hobbies include game and bird watching with my husband Eugene, reading fiction, and wine tasting. I consider myself to be an uncertified sommelier of rose’ wines. (A self-appointed connoisseur.)