Neurology

The Department of Neurology is part of the School of Clinical Medicine in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Its research centres on stroke, HIV-associated neurological disorders and cardiovascular risk. Studies examine HIV-related vasculopathy, cardioembolic stroke, immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome and the interaction between infectious and non-communicable diseases, with strengths in clinical phenotyping, imaging and context-specific risk assessment.

Further work covers regional stroke systems analysis, clinician wellbeing and the development of HIV and syphilis clinical guidelines. The research is focused on high-burden settings in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly South Africa.