Elmi Muller

Elmi Muller
Residence	Cape Town, South Africa
Nationality	South African
Alma mater	University of Pretoria University of Cape Town
Occupation	Medical Specialist and Transplant Surgeon

Elmi Muller is a South African medical specialist and President of the Southern African Transplantation Society who pioneered an organ transplant programme at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town for HIV positive patients using HIV positive donors.

Biography

Elmi Muller has been a full-time medical specialist within the Department of Surgery at the University of Cape Town, Groote Schuur Hospital since 2007. She has been involved in organ transplant-related outreach and education programmes for the public and the medical profession as medical director for the Organ Donor Foundation of South Africa.

The pioneer of an organ transplant programme at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town for HIV positive patients using HIV positive donors, Muller also initiated a Donation after Cardiac Death programme. She is the President of the Southern African Transplantation Society and Chair of the Netcare Transplant and Research Ethics Committee.

Education

After graduating with a M.B. Ch.B. from the University of Pretoria in 1995, Muller was awarded a M.Med. (Surgery) degree from the University of Cape Town (UCT). She completed her final submission for a Ph.D. (Surgery) at UCT in April 2015.

Professional memberships

A member of the UK's Royal College of Surgeons and a Fellow of the College of Surgeons in South Africa, Muller was awarded Fellowship of the American College of Surgeons in 2013. Other professional memberships include the European Society for Organ Transplantation and the International Society of Nephrology.

Awards and accolades

In 2014, Muller was the recipient of CEO Magazine’s Most Influential Woman in Business and Government: Africa award, and was the winner of the health care category of the Most Influential Women in Africa in 2013. She was awarded a guest scholarship by the American College of Surgeons in 2012, and was winner of the Checkers Shoprite Woman of the Year award in the health care section for 2011.

References

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2. "HIV-Positive–to–HIV-Positive Kidney Transplantation — Results at 3 to 5 Years". Nejm.org. Retrieved 2016-08-18.