Palesa Mamoseki Violet (Motshabi) Chakane
AfOx and Female Academic Leaders Fellow (FALF)
South Africa
Palesa Motshabi Chakane is an Associate Professor and academic Head of Department of Anaesthesia at the School of Clinical Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand. She holds a PhD in Cardiac Anaesthesia, is the Past President of the Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anaesthesia Society of Southern Africa (CASSA), A committee member of the International Academy of Cardiac Anaesthesiology, member of the International Committee of the Society of Cardiovascular Anaesthesiologists (SCA). She is the Founder of the Joint Perioperative Cardiothoracic and Vascular Congress (JPC Congress).
She has chaired the 19th International Congress of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anaesthesia - CASSA - JPC Congress in 2023 and was Scientific Program Chair of the All Africa Congress in 2024. She is a recipient of the 2021 Female Academic Leadership Fellowship (FALF), winner of the prestigious FALF Research Award in 2022, the 2023 FALF Academic Leadership Award, the Clinix and Clinician Scientists Society Clinical Leadership Award. Her research interests are perioperative outcomes in paediatric congenital, adult cardiothoracic and vascular anaesthesia, acute kidney injury and patient blood transfusion.