South Africa: Professor Elmi Muller Wins the 2019 Alan Pifer Award

[UCT] In 2008 Professor Elmi Muller, then a young transplant surgeon based at Groote Schuur hospital, completed the world's first kidney transplant between an HIV-positive patient and donor. Now, 12 years later, Muller is recognised as a global authority on kidney and liver transplantation and a trailblazer in the field of organ transplantation in HIV-positive patients. It is this dedication to making organ transplantation available to vulnerable people that has led to Muller being recognised with the 2019 Unive
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Source Type: news