Invited South African Speakers

Professor Mohambry Nadesan (Morgan) Chetty

Professor Mohambry ‘Morgan’ Chetty, is a registered Specialist Family Physician who serves as the Chairman of the IPA Foundation of South Africa and the Chairman of the KwaZulu Natal Doctors’ Healthcare Coalition. He is also a visiting Professor in the Department of Health Sciences at the Durban University of Technology.

Prof Chetty was awarded the Fellowship of Family Physicians by the College of Medicine of South Africa in 2013 (FCP(SA)) and in 2019, was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy (Honoris Causa) by the Nelson Mandela University. He currently writes for the Medical Chronicles Journal, among others, has authored two books on Managed Care, and is a renowned local and international speaker.

He has been the recipient of a number of prestigious awards, including the Life Achievement Award for Quality in Healthcare; Discovery Health and BHF Titanium Awards for Excellence in 2018 and 2017 respectively; and in 1993/1994 was the recipient of the Fullbright-Humphrey Scholarship in the USA where he completed his MPH.

Prof Chetty’s interests are in quality and safety in healthcare; and working as an advocate for Best Practice Medicine.

He is currently the Advisor of Schemes on Clinical Practice and Peer Monitoring; and is the Vice-President (African Global Health) on the Harm Reduction in Healthcare Scientific Committee.