Pathcare Research Committee

To establish and support a culture of research at PathCare

Purpose

The Pathology Research Committee (PRC) is a subcommittee of the Board, and acts to secure the integrity of research done at PathCare.  This includes operational research, evaluating best practice, research linked to educational programmes or degrees, research aimed at publications and research/innovations with a view to new developments and/or products. The committee facilitates and enables research by providing an easy to use structure to register projects, update progress reports and to link investigators to resources that can support their work.

Guidelines to do research on the PathCare platform (download document)

Committee Members

  • Dr K Hoek (chair) research@pathcare.org
  • Dr R Soldin
  • Dr M Olivier
  • Dr Bongani Mhemedi
  • Dr Karen Mostert
  • Prof Nickie Goedhals
  • Ms Miekie Treurnicht

Register your project

PathCare supports research on its platform that adds value to our role in patient management as part of the healthcare team.
The following documents should be submitted via the secretariat to register projects with the PRC:

  • Checklist for registration of project (download document)
  • Research proposal
  • Signed declarations where relevant (confidentiality agreement, conflict of interest, intellectual property) (download document)
  • Proof of approval by a registered ethics committee
  • Signed approval of the manager in charge of the section where the research will take place, in order to guarantee that we can meet your expectations (download document)
  • All researchers not employed by PathCare should sign a non-disclosure agreement (download here)

Information regarding additional funding for projects

In order to facilitate the execution of registered research projects, the Pathcare Research Committee can consider applications for amounts up to R15 000.

This funds can be used for additional laboratory tests, statistical analysis or publication fees. All applications will be evaluated on merit, within the restrictions of our annual budget.

Application for seed funding PRC: Download Form

Research Output for 2022

PathCare Staff that have contributed to research publications is listed below:

PathCare Authors

Ashlin Rampul

Journal & Citation

International federation of Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine, South Korea, 25 – 26 June 2022

 

Title

Total Laboratory Testing vs Point of Care Testing

Type of publication and role

Conference Presentation

Izak Loftus

Encyclopaedia of forensic sciences, Third Edition

General Principles and Analysis of Mechanical Trauma

Book Chapter

Colleen Bamford
Kim Hoek

Emerging Infectious Diseases
Vol. 29, No. 2, February 2023

Neoehrlichiosis in a symptomatic immunocompetent child in South Africa

Research Article

Ashlin Rampul

J Lab Medicine, April 2023

Digital competence in laboratory medicine

Research article

Dominique Goedhals
Sabeehah Vawda

Journal of Virus Eradication 9 (2023) 100317

Barriers that prevent adults living with HBV infection from participating in clinical research: experience from South Africa

Narrative Article

Dominique Goedhals

Archives of Virology (2022) 167:1175–1179

A decontamination strategy for resolving SARS-CoV-2

Research Article

Dominique Goedhals

Science

The evolving SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Africa: insights from rapidly expanding genomic surveillance

Research Article

Dominique Goedhals

Nature | Vol 603 | 24 March 2022

Rapid epidemic expansion of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in Southern Africa

Research Article

Jacqueline Goedhals
Gerhard van der Westhuizen

SA Journal of Oncology ISSN: (Online) 2523-0646,
(Print) 2518-8704

Succinate dehydrogenase-deficient renal cell carcinoma: A retrospective study, 1999 – 2018

Research Article

Bheki Masango

The Journal of Medical Laboratory Science & Technology South Africa. 2023;5:24-30

Evaluation of the simplified Carbapenem Inactivation method
(sCIM) for detection of carbapenemase-producing Gram-negative bacilli

Research Article

Hue-Tsi (Tony) Wu

SASGO Congress 2023

Specimen grossing and fixation, from materials to margins

Conference Presentation

Dominique Goedhals

A. Sing (ed.), Zoonoses: Infections Affecting Humans and Animals

Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus, an Emerging and Re-emerging Pathogen of Public Health Concern

Book Chapter

Dominique Goedhals

J Med Virol. 2023;95:e29154

Identification of T cell responses to the nonstructural glycoproteins in survivors of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in South Africa

Research

Ashlin Rampul

MedLab Africa

Troponin I in the emergency room and “beyond”

Conference Presentation

Ashlin Rampul

SAMRC Cardiometabolic disease in the technological era

Digital Technologies, mobile Apps and laboratory data in lab medicine

Conference Presentation

Warren Lowman

S Afr J Infect Dis. 2023;38(1), a498

Clinical application of Vitek-derived minimum inhibitory concentration values: Proof of concept study

Research Article

Warren Lowman
Catherine Samuel

Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance 35 (2023) 93 – 100

In vitro activity of ceftazidime-avibactam against clinical isolates of Enterobacterales and Pseudomonas aeruginosa from sub-Saharan Africa: ATLAS Global Surveillance Program
2017–2021

Research Article

Carol Massyn

SMLTSA 2023

Genetic Testing for Male Infertility

Conference Presentation