Emeritus Professor Status conferred on Wits Health Sciences' Professor Manga
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Professor Pravin Manga has been honoured with the status of Emeritus Professor for his outstanding contribution to the University.
After more than 40 years of service to the University of Witwatersrand, Professor Pravin Manga has been honoured with the status of Emeritus Professor for his outstanding contribution to the University.
Academic Head of Internal Medicine, Professor Pravin Manga, spent the majority of his 40 years post qualification in the public service. He completed his internship at the then Coronation Hospital and subsequently did his Registrar training in internal medicine at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital.
He was attracted to cardiology and gained a fellowship position to train at Tulane University in the United States of America. On his return to South Africa, he was appointed Head of Cardiology at the Hillbrow Hospital. With a passion for interventional cardiology, he completed his PhD in this area, pioneered the first program of balloon valvuloplasty for the treatment of rheumatic mitral stenosis in the country and became an international expert on this subject.
In 1995 he was appointed Chief Specialist, Professor and Academic Head of Cardiology and later Academic Head of the Department of Internal Medicine in the School of Clinical Medicine until his retirement in 2016. In this time he was known for running a patient focused unit, launching the only 24-hour cardiac cath lab service in a public hospital in South Africa.
He has had the distinction of being the past President of the South African Cardiac Society and still serves/ served on the board of the South African Heart Association. His research focused on valvular and ischaemic heart disease and he still serves as the Deputy Editor of the Journal of American College of Cardiology, the number one rated cardiovascular journal in the world.
Prof Manga will continue to pursue his research interests and teaching; staying on in the Division of Cardiology. In addition, he will also start a new journal for the School of Clinical Medicine.
The Faculty would like to thank Professor Manga for his service and congratulates him on his Emeritus Professor appointment.