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DrJo-Anne Kirby

Medical Officer

Campus Health Service

Orcid identifier0000-0002-3177-8881
  • Medical Officer
    Campus Health Service

OVERVIEW

Sports and Exercise Medicine is my passion and I desire to make it accessible to both recreational and elite athletes. I am committed to providing an integrated approach to medicine and science and highly value the principles of ethics and evidence-based medicine.

I am a clinician with a focus of sports and exercise medicine at Campus Health Service (CHS) since 2010. I serve on the executive of the South African Sports  Medicine Association and on the Therapeutic Use Exemption Committee of the South African Institute for Drug Free Sport.

I am a part time academic at the Insitute of Sport and Exercise Medicine (ISEM) and a consultant in Sports Medicine at Tygerberg Academic Hospital and a consultant for Sports Concussion South Africa. I hold a certificate in travel medicine.

 

CHS has a collaboration with KU Leuven where we host a medical doctor specialising in rehabilitation medicine at Leuven for a three month sports medicine fellowship. I provide clinical supervision and co-author clinical case reports.

 

I love to run, explore, travel and read. I have published a fiction novel under my married surname.

DEGREES

  • MBChB
    Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa25 Jan 1998 - 10 Dec 2023
  • MSc Sports Medicine
    University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa10 Jan 2008 - 30 Nov 2009

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Certificate in Travel Medicine
    University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa1 Jan 2019 - 10 Dec 2019
    Yellow Fever licence holder
  • Diploma in Football Medicine
    Fédération Internationale de Football Association, Zurich, Switzerland20 Jan 2020 - 30 Oct 2020

LANGUAGES

  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Afrikaans
    Can read, write, speak and understand
  • Portuguese
    Can read, speak and understand

AFRICAN UNION 2063 GOALS

  • 3 Healthy and well-nourished citizens
  • 1 A High Standard of Living, Quality of Life and Well Being for All Citizens

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

  • 3 Good Health and Well Being

FIELDS OF RESEARCH