Tuesday 30th June: 20:00
Dr Karyn Moshal is a consultant in the Department of Infectious Diseases at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, and Sepsis Lead for the Hospital.
Dr Moshal graduated from the University of Cape Town, trained in General Paediatrics in London (UCL and Imperial affiliated hospitals) and completed a Fellowship in Paediatric Infectious Diseases at the Children’s Hospital, Philadelphia. In 2004 she founded the NGO CHIVA Africa, in response to the HIV pandemic and the crisis in South Africa. She remains Chairman of both the South African and UK Trustees. This organization has trained and mentored more than 20,000 health care professionals – responsible for the care of hundreds of thousands of children – in the provision of quality HIV treatment and long-term management, giving them the practical skills to save lives and improve the quality of life of these young people. She received Rotary International’s Paul Harris Award, the CHIVAS Humanitarian Award (South Africa) and the South African Achiever Award in the Health Care sector for this work.