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Nuclear Medicine is a division of the Department of Radiation Sciences within the School of Clinical Medicine. There are two clinical departments based at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic (CHBA) and Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic (CMJA) hospitals. We provide both in vivo and in vitro services that include a wide range of functional and molecular imaging using gamma cameras, PET/CT machine, Gamma and Beta counters and various open-source radiation therapies.
VISION: To evolve into a "Top Class" Unit that is a model to others
MISSION: To promote the clinicial role of Nuclear Medicine in Science Delivery to the Community
The division provides daily clinical nuclear medicine services to the four academic hospitals in Johannesburg and to their clusters. Due to limited resources and with nuclear medicine facilities located only at the two Tertiary Hospitals (CHBAH & CMJAH) in southern Gauteng, the services are also provided to the North West province.
We have an established Centre of Excellence, the Thyroid Cancer Clinic that is run every Wednesday and provides service to patients beyond the Gauteng province. Another Centre of Excellence is our unique Scintillation Laboratory, which is only one of two in the country, for glomerular filtration rate (GRF) measurement in preparation of potential renal transplant donors. It is also the only laboratory that offers the 14C breath test for H. pylori in the country, thus, in addition providing its services to the private pathology laboratories. Our in-house electronic medical record and information technology system (VENUS) is also unique in the public service in South Africa.
To cater to our international colleagues, we have a short refresher course (Observership Program in Nuclear Medicine) designed for fellows from geographic regions with very limited nuclear medicine facilities. They are usually trained in places with wide exposure to nuclear medicine.
Our nuclear medicine team is working hard to provide world-class services to our patients in both imaging and therapy, offer exceptional training to our registrars and radiographers and do innovative research informing the practice of nuclear medicine in our community.
