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Professor Ashraf Coovadia

Qualifications

MBBCh FCPaed DCH Dip HIV Man
Current posts

Academic Head of Department : Paediatrics and Child Health
University of the Witwatersrand
Head of Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital
Portfolios

Faculty Exec and Board (Wits), Professional and Ethical Standards Committee (Wits), Gauteng Provincial Health Research Committee, Child and Adolescent Subcommittee of the Southern African HIV Clinician’s Society, Sector Leader – Children’s Sector (Yezingane Network) of the South African National AIDS Council
Biosketch

Ashraf is a Chief Specialist and Head of Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at the Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital where he has been working since February 1998.
Professional interests

HIV, Paediatric Emergency Medicine and Resuscitation, Mobile technology in the clinical space
Phone number

Office: 0114709100 / 9284
Fax:0866142346
Email address/es

Ashraf.Coovadia@wits.ac.za
Outreach

Includes Yusuf Dadoo Hospital, Leratong Hospital, Klerksdorp Hospital
Publications (top 3)
  • Coovadia A, Hunt G, Abrams EJ, Sherman G, Meyers T, Barry G, Malan E, Marais B, Stehlau R, Ledwaba J, Hammer SM, Morris L, Kuhn L. Persistent minority K103N mutations among women exposed to single-dose nevirapine and virologic response to non-nucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitor-based therapy. Clin Infect Dis. (IF=9.374) 2009 Feb 15; 48(4):462-72. doi: 10.1086/596486.PubMed [citation] PMID: 19133804, PMCID: PMC2810158 (Citations 49)
  • Coovadia A, Abrams EJ, Stehlau R, Meyers T, Martens L, Sherman G, Hunt G, Hu CC, Tsai WY, Morris L, Kuhn L. Reuse of nevirapine in exposed HIV-infected children after protease inhibitor-based viral suppression: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA. (IF=30) 2010 Sep 8; 304(10):1082-90. doi: 10.1001/jama.2010.1278.PubMed [citation] PMID: 20823434. (Citations 32)
  • Coovadia A, Abrams EJ, Strehlau R, Shiau S, Pinillos F, Martens L, Patel F, Hunt G, Tsai WY, Kuhn L. Efavirenz-Based Antiretroviral Therapy Among Nevirapine-Exposed HIV-Infected Children in South Africa: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2015 Nov 3;314(17):1808-17. doi: .1001/jama.2015.13631. PubMed PMID: 26529159.

 

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