Our team

Leadership

1. Prof Graham Fieggen (Director), Helen & Morris Mauerberger Professor and Head of the Division of Neurosurgery
2. Prof Kirsty Donald (Deputy director), Head of the Division of Developmental Paediatrics, Department of Paediatrics & Child Health 
3. Dr Jacqueline Bracher, Academic Project Manager 

Researchers

Our substantial research team is made up of distinguished academics drawn from six departments and two faculties:

1. Prof Marc Combrinck, Head of the Division of Geriatric Medicine
2. Prof Anthony Figaji, Head of the Paediatric Neurosurgery Unit, Division of Neurosurgery and SARChI Chair in Clinical Neuroscience
3. Prof Jeannine Heckmann, Director of the UCT Neurology Research Group, Division of Neurology
4. Assoc Prof Fleur Howells, Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry & Mental Health
5. Prof John Joska, Director of the HIV Mental Health Research Unit, Head of the Division of Neuropsychiatry, Department of Psychiatry & Mental Health
6. Dr Nelleke Langerak, Honorary Research Associate in Human Movement Sciences, Division of Neurosurgery
7. Prof Ernesta Meintjes, Director of the MRC/UCT Medical Imaging Research Unit, Department of Human Biology, SARChI Chair in Brain Imaging 
8. Dr Vinogran Naidoo, Senior Lecturer in Physiological Sciences, Department of Human Biology (relocated)
9. Dr Joseph Raimondo, Receptor Biology Unit and Senior Lecturer in Physiological Sciences, Department of Human Biology
10. Prof Vivienne Russell, Head of the Division of Physiological Sciences, Department of Human Biology (retired)
11. Prof Mark Solms, Director of Neuropsychology and Head of the Department of Psychology
12. Prof Dan Stein, Director of the Brain-Behaviour initiative and Head of the Department of Psychiatry & Mental Health
13. Assoc Prof Allan Taylor, Head of Clinical Unit, Division of Neurosurgery
14. Prof Jo M Wilmshurst, Head of Paediatric Neurology, Department of Paediatrics & Child Health