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Associate Professor & Head: Programme of Bio & Research Ethics and Medical Law, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Sylvester C Chima, MD, LL.M, LLD
Associate Professor and Head:
Program of Bio & Research Ethics and Medical Law,
College of Health Sciences, UKZN

Professor Chima, who was born in Nigeria, spent more than 20 years of his academic career in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Caribbean. Qualifying as a medical doctor in Nigeria, Professor Chima practiced for many years in that country before going to Howard University, Yale University and Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University in the USA where he trained as a Pathologist and Neuropathologist. Apart from being a qualified Pathologist, in 2006 Professor Chima received a Master of Laws in Medical Law from Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne in England. Professor Chima has worked around the globe in various prominent institutions such Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut, the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland and Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, USA.
Prior to joining UKZN, he was Professor of Pathology and Medical Law at the International American Medical University in St Lucia, West Indies. Professor Chima has published papers in International journals such as BMJ, BMC Medical Ethics, Journal of General Virology, Human Biology, Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice etc. and he is an author/co-author four books on Medical Law and Ethics and African Health issues. His latest book is entitled “ A Primer on Medical Law, Bioethics and Human Rights for African Scholars”, Currently, Professor Chima is Associate Professor and Head, Programme of Bio & Research Ethics and Medical Law, School of Nursing and Public Health, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Experience

  • –present
    Associate Professor & Head: Programme of Bio & Research Ethics and Medical Law, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Education

  • 2006 
    Northumbria University, Newcasle-upon-Tyne, England, LL.M (Medical Law)
  • 1984 
    University of Jos, Nigeria, BM, B.CH ( Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery)

Publications

  • 2015
    " Because I want to be informed, to be part of the decision-making": Patients' insights on informed consent practices by healthcare professionals in South Africa SC Chima Nigerian journal of clinical practice 18 (7), 46,
  • 2015
    Religion politics and ethics: Moral and ethical dilemmas facing faith-based organizations and Africa in the 21st century-implications for Nigeria in a season of anomie SC Chima Nigerian journal of clinical practice 18 (7), 1,
  • 2015
    Ethical and legal dilemmas around termination of pregnancy for severe fetal anomalies: A review of two African neonates presenting with ventriculomegaly and holo... SC Chima, F Mamdoo Nigerian journal of clinical practice 18 (7), 31,
  • 2013
    Evaluating the quality of informed consent and contemporary clinical practices by medical doctors in South Africa: An empirical study SC Chima BMC medical ethics 14 (1), S3,
  • 2013
    Stigmatization of people living with HIV/AIDS by healthcare workers at a tertiary hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A cross-sectional descriptive study TO Famoroti, L Fernandes, SC Chima BMC medical ethics 14 (1), S6,
  • 2013
    Global medicine: Is it ethical or morally justifiable for doctors and other healthcare workers to go on strike? SC Chima BMC medical ethics 14 (1), S5,
  • 2011
    A primer on medical law, bioethics and human rights for African scholars SC Chima Chimason Educational Books,
  • 2006
    Global medicine: Regulation of biomedical research in Africa SC Chima BMJ: British Medical Journal 332 (7545), 848,
  • 2000
    Polyomavirus JC genotypes in an urban United States population reflect the history of African origin and genetic admixture in modern African Americans SC Chima, CF Ryschkewitsch, KJ Fan, GL Stoner Human biology, 837-850,
  • 2000
    JC virus as a marker of human migrationto the Americas GL Stoner, DV Jobes, MF Cobo, HT Agostini, SC Chima, ... Microbes and Infection 2 (15), 1905-1911,
  • 1999
    Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy and JC virus genotypes in West African patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome: a pathologic and DNA seq... SC Chima, HT Agostini, CF Ryschkewitsch, SB Lucas, GL Stoner Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 123 (5), 395-403,
  • 1998
    Phylogenetic analysis of 22 complete genomes of the human polyomavirus JC virus. DV Jobes, SC Chima, CF Ryschkewitsch, GL Stoner Journal of General Virology 79 (10), 2491-2498,
  • 1998
    Molecular epidemiology of human polyomavirus JC in the Biaka Pygmies and Bantu of Central Africa SC Chima, CF Ryschkewitsch, GL Stoner Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 93 (5), 615-624,

Grants and Contracts

  • 2018
    Role:
    Associate Professor & Head: Programme of Bio & Research Ethics and Medical Law, College of Health Sciences
    Funding Source:
    National Research Foundation

Honours

US Public Health Service Award, Forgarty Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA