OBITUARY
Tributes pour in for acclaimed medical pioneer Bongani Mayosi
Bongani Mayosi, a cardiologist whose pioneering research changed the way doctors treat tuberculous pericarditis, committed suicide in Cape Town on Friday. He was 51. Born in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape, Mayosi was inspired to pursue a career in medicine by his father, who was a rural doctor. His career took him to the pinnacle of academic medicine, but his work as a clinician scientist had influence far beyond the laboratory bench. "His love for clinical research and capacity development, coupled with an innate intellect, quickly propelled him into a leader in clinical medicine and cardiology," says Medical Research Council president Glenda Gray. "He always inspired me. Over our coffee meetings in Cape Town, we would dream about a future for clinical research in SA and how we could conspire to make this realisable," she says.
At the time of his death, Mayosi was dean of the faculty of health sciences at the University of Cape Town (UCT), a post he took up in 2016 after a decad...
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