FACULTY SENIOR ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS & PROMOTIONS

READER, School of Public Health

Dr Wade graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (Honours) (2000) at the University of West Indies and, as a Rhodes Scholar, went to the University of Oxford where she obtained a DPhil in 2006. She later obtained diplomas in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism through the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Her main research focus is in endocrine and metabolic diseases in lower- and middle-income countries (LMIC), focusing on individuals of African descent. In addition to her own research programme in Agincourt, she spearheads the development of a clinical research programme, nested in the existing population research platform, which seeks to develop clinical cohorts for longitudinal follow-up of patients with prevalent chronic non-communicable diseases. She has co-authored 57 peer-reviewed publications, and is a first author on 7. She is also first author on two book chapters and an editorial in the reputable Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology and co-author of a review in Science. She has presented at more than 20 local and international conferences, her research excellence is also demonstrated through her NRF C3 rating, google scholar H-index of 27 and Web of Science and Scopus H-index of 24.

She is currently supervising one masters and two PhD students, including one at the University of Oxford. She has been an external examiner for an MPH course in non-communicable disease epidemiology (UCT), and external examiner for dissertations at Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University. She has been an internal examiner of 12 masters’ students’ research and besides her supervisory and examination roles, she has provided mentoring and guidance to staff members through the SPUH Career Development Committee.

In addition to her clinical practice in Endocrinology at the Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre, she is also a member of the in-house Medical Executive Committee. Her input is valued in the review of grant applications within the Health Sciences Advisory Panel for the Competitive Programme for Rated and Unrated Researchers of the NRF for several years and was a reviewer for the transcontinental COVID-19 Africa Rapid Grant Fund. Lastly, in the wider society, she has served on several national and international scholarship committees, is currently a Board member of a non-profit organization that supports early intervention in babies with hearing impairment.

We congratulate Dr Wade on her promotion to Reader (Associate Professor)