ICanFunction Health (Pty) Ltd (South Africa) is the first operating company in the mICF ecosystem. We have started with the development of an mHealth application, based on the principles of mICF, to reverse insulin-resistance.

Occupational Medicine Practitioner: • Incon (2018 - )• Consultant to insurance industry (2017- )• Life Occupational Health (2000 - )• Rainbow Chicken (1993-1998)• Denel Land Systems (Western Cape) (Part-time) (2005-2008)• Chairperson of the Cape Chapter of the South African Society of Occupational Medicine (SASOM) and member of national executive committee (2003 – 2009)• Organising committee: 26th ICOH world congress (2007-2009)• Various locum positionsPrimary Health Care: • Vila Ulónguè and Chicinono(Mozambique)• Nkhoma (Malawi)• Nosébe (Madagascar)• La Ronge (Canada) • Locum for the AIDS, Tuberculosis and STD clinics of the Cape Town City Council

Project Manager: WHO Family of International Classifications Collaborating Centre at South African Medical Research Council (part-time contract)

Collaborating in research and development of the ICanFunction mHealth Solution (mICF). Also facilitator of the International mICF Partnership, a WHO project to develop an mHealth solution serving as catalyst for the effective support of persons with disabilities throughout the continuum of care.

The Global Health program at Northwestern University is ranked 38th in the world. Developed and is serving as lecturer and course coordinator in the module, Public health in South Africa. This forms part of the programme, Public Health and Development in South Africa.Curriculum provided pre-med students first-hand experience of Public Health in South Africa through field visits, small group discussions, mentorship, continuous assessment and formative feedback.Interactive study material was designed for the following topics: Systems for Health; Infectious diseases; Non-communicable diseases; Social Determinants of Health; Environmental Health; Traditional Medicine and Worldviews; Maternal and Child Health; Mental Health.

From the beginning of 2019 I am the occupational medicine practitioner for Stellenbosch University for 1 day a week.

Responsible to deliver the “Doctor as Change Agent in Communities” module to 4th and 5th year medical students. In a recent accreditation visit by the HPCSA (July 2017) they described this module as the “flagship” module at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. I was responsible for the development of the module, focusing on the core competencies needed for health professionals to serve as change agents, e.g. Self-care, Collaborative Leadership and Teamwork, Emotional Intelligence, Patient-centred care, Quality Improvement, Health Advocacy, Financial Management, etc.

(This position was initially situated in the Centre for Health Professions Education and since 2017 in the Division of Health Systems and Public Health, Department of Global Health.)Developed and implemented innovative IPECP strategy, integrating core interprofessional collaborative practice competencies into undergraduate programmes. This included introducing the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) as interprofessional, bio-psycho-social-spiritual approach to person- and community-centred care. This initiative was selected as one of four projects globally to form part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s (USA) Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professions Education.Led innovative curriculum development initiatives to facilitate transformative learning, as well as capacity building of students, faculty and preceptors to act as agents of change by modelling interprofessional collaborative person-centred practice. Instigator and facilitator of the International mICF Partnership developing the ICanFunction mHealth solution (mICF) utilising patient-driven big data and artificial intelligence in providing interprofessional predictive, individualised continuity of care. Also served as chairperson, module team member and lecturer for various under- and postgraduate courses, including curriculum advisor for Community Health, Family Medicine, Rehabilitation and Nursing.Also serve(d) on various university committees: Senate Committee for Information Technology in Teaching and Learning; Rehabilitation Reference Group; Advisory board of the Centre for Rehabilitation Studies; Undergraduate Education Committee at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences; Undergraduate Training Committee for the division of Community Health; Module team of MPhil (Health Professions Education); Advisory Board of Maties Community Service.

Made learning happen in Psychiatry by transforming the undergraduate curricula for Medicine and Occupational Therapy.This included the evaluation and redesigning of undergraduate curricula in the Department of Psychiatry, the implementation of a service-learning module in the M.B., Ch. B. curriculum by building reciprocal partnerships with ten community organisations, as well as the development of e-learning materials for Psychiatry.My research assignment for the M Phil (Health Sciences Education) investigated the destigmatising of medical students’ perceptions towards psychiatric patients as a result of the influence of a service-learning approach.

Serve as advisor for the Cancer Association of South Africa on ad hoc basis regarding their website design, social media strategy, eLearning, mHealth and information technology systems.Award-winning CANSA website: 2011

GivenGain is the global leader in cloud-based activism. This platform enables organisations to run better fundraising operations and increase revenue with tools that allow them to build and manage relationships and win support for the ideas they believe in. GivenGain started in 2001 with a simple idea: to enable global philanthropy by empowering individuals and non-profits to break down the barriers between and within ourselves.Served at GivenGain as consultant to major local and international health-related non-profit organisations in the planning, development and implementation of ICT solutions (e.g. websites, web 2.0 functionalities, databases, communication and fund-raising strategies).Clients included: World Dental Federation (Geneve); International Commission on Occupational Health (Lausanne); UNICEF (Johannesburg); Avaaz (Washington DC); CANSA (Johannesburg); Water Neutral (London & Johannesburg); Stop Extinction Coalition (Washington DC); WWF (Geneve & Stellenbosch); Reach for a Dream (Johannesburg); South African Society for Occupational Medicine (Pretoria); Christian Medical Fellowship (London & Cape Town); ICMDA (London); Dutch Reformed Church (Cape Town); Trade Law Association (Stellenbosch); Thuthuka Educational Trust (London); Centre for Constitutional Rights (Cape Town).

Managed medical doctors at 40 occupational health clinics in Western Cape serviced by Life Occupational Healthcare. Co-ordinated the development and implementation of clinical guidelines and training, e.g. policies and guidelines to manage work-related upper limb disorders, noise-induced hearing loss, post-traumatic stress disorder and executive burnout.As part of my remit I also: • Developed the Compensation Commissioner’s Circular Instruction 180 and accompanying Guideline for health practitioners and employers to manage work-related upper limb disorders (WRULDs)• Served as Guest Editor of Occupation Health South Africa (1995, Volume 11(4), July / August)• Lectured part-time at Stellenbosch University and University of Cape Town in their postgraduate Occupational Health/Medicine programmes.

NeonatologyNeurologyPulmonologyGeneral Paediatric Outpatients

Global Careers exists as an association of people from all walks of life, committed to the promotion, facilitation and advancement of individual and community transformation and reconciliation with respect, tolerance and compassion for and between all peoples of South Africa and the nations.Served as • Executive Director: Operations (1992 – 1999), responsible for the placement and support of healthcare professionals to live integrated lives in underserved communities• Non-executive director (2000 – 2012).Co-founded the South African Partnership Forum (1995) and served as facilitator for various consensus-based development partnerships on the continent:• North African Partnership: developing Southern Africa division (1995 – 1997)• Middle East Consultation: representing South Africa (1998)• Ruvuma Partnership (Northern Mozambique): facilitating the exploration, formation and initial operation of the partnership (1993 – 1998)• Msinga Partnership: facilitator (2005 – 2008)• Makhathini Partnership: facilitator (2006 – 2012)• Training of partnership facilitators (South African Partnership Forum) (1995 –2010)• Partnership consultant (GCOWE 1998, TIE 1999, LCWE Thailand (2004), DRC (2005-2012))

NeonatologyNeurologyPulmonologyGeneral Paediatric Outpatients

SurgeryOrthopaedicsUrology (with "minor" surgical disciplines)AnaestheticsObstetrics and Gynaecology (with Neonatology)Internal Medicine (with General Paediatrics and Psychiatry).