XOLANI NDLOVU
Specialist Nuclear Medicine Physician
Swakopmund,Erongo
Summary
An organised and dependable professional successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
14
14
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages
Work History
Consultant Nuclear Medicine Physician
Namibia Nuclear Imaging (NNI)
Swakopmund
04.2021 - Current
- Supervising and performing clinical work in the unit, including diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine procedures
- Assessment and pre-approval of all nuclear medicine procedures in collaboration with referring clinicians
- Generation and review of standardised operating procedures for all clinical and non-clinical activities in the nuclear medicine unit.
- Managed time efficiently in order to complete all tasks within deadlines.
- Organized and detail-oriented with a strong work ethic.
LECTURER
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Faculty of Medicine
Bulawayo
05.2020 - Current
- Teaching of undergraduate medical students in the,
- Teaching of undergraduate and post-graduate radiography and medical physics students in the faculty of applied sciences
- Supervising masters research theses for medical physics students.
- Used variety of learning modalities and support materials to facilitate learning process and accentuate presentations.
- Evaluated and revised lesson plans and course content to achieve student-centered learning.
- Utilized distance learning technology to instruct students remotely.
- Mentored and advised students to explore career pathways based and amplify knowledge, skills and strengths.
Project Counterpart Regional Project (RAF6057)
Ministry of Health and Child Care, Zimbabwe
Bulawayo
01.2020 - Current
- Planning and preparation of project work-plan in collaboration with IAEA staff and counterpart project coordinators from other member states.
- Implementation of project activities
- Monitoring and evaluation and preparing periodic progress reports.
- Acted as a team leader in group projects, delegating tasks and providing feedback.
- Worked well in a team setting, providing support and guidance.
- Proved successful working within tight deadlines and a fast-paced environment.
- Developed strong communication and organizational skills through working on group projects.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Exercised leadership capabilities by successfully motivating and inspiring others.
Board Member
Radiation Protection Authority of Zimbabwe
Harare
08.2019 - Current
- Member of the Operations subcommittee
- Guiding operational activities of the radiation protection authority of Zimbabwe
- Member of Human Resources, Legal and Risk-management subcommittee
- Guiding matters of the authority related to human resources, legal matters, and risk management.
- Set, enforced, and optimized internal policies to maintain responsiveness to demands.
- Presided over board committee meetings and conducted board business to address organizational objectives.
- Provided guidance and leadership on strategic planning initiatives and organizational development.
- Collaborated with other board members to develop and execute programs and initiatives to advance organizational mission.
National Project Coordinator
Ministry of Health and Child Care, Zimbabwe
Bulawayo
01.2018 - Current
- Designed project for resuscitation of Nuclear Medicine Services in Zimbabwe.
- Identified and recommended nominees for nuclear medicine training on short- and long-term fellowships
- Identification of key equipment for procurement
- Monitoring and evaluation and reporting of project progress.
- Demonstrated leadership skills in managing projects from concept to completion.
Project Counterpart IAEA Regional Project RAF6051
Ministry of Health and Child Care
Bulawayo
01.2016 - 12.2021
- FOR REGIONAL (AFRA) TECHNICAL COOPERATION PROJECT (RAF6051) ‘Strengthening Education and Human Resources Development for Expansion and Sustainability of Nuclear Medicine Services in Africa’.
- Implementation of project activities in line with the project work-plan
- Monitoring and evaluation, and periodic reporting of project progress.
- Worked well in a team setting, providing support and guidance.
- Exercised leadership capabilities by successfully motivating and inspiring others.
ACTING CLINICAL DIRECTOR
MPILO CENTRAL HOSPITAL
Bulawayo
04.2020 - 03.2021
- Supervised all day-to-day clinical administrative tasks
- Assessment of employee performance and attending to disciplinary matters
- Overseeing hospital compliance with legal guidelines, policies and quality standards
- Planning, coordination and overseeing the delivery of patient care services
- Monitoring trends and making informed decisions regarding service provision
- Prioritising the use of best and evidence-based practices, including researching programming trends and current practices being used elsewhere.
- Assisted with day-to-day operations, working efficiently and productively with all team members.
- Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
- Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
Consultant Nuclear Medicine Physician
NUCLEAR MEDICINE PHYSICIAN, MPILO CENTRAL HOSPITAL
Bulawayo
09.2016 - 03.2021
- Preparing the ground work for the re-establishment of nuclear medicine services at Mpilo Central Hospital and at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals
- Implementing all requirements for compliance with regulatory authorities for the licensing of nuclear medicine departments
- Supervising and performing Quality Control and Quality Assurance tests on nuclear medicine equipment
- Teaching of students (medical physics and radiography) attached to the nuclear medicine department and assistance with research work
- Designing a new curriculum for MSc in Nuclear Medicine for radiographers for the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) department of applied physics
- On-the job training of diagnostic radiographers in Nuclear Medicine techniques (3 have since emigrated to the UK to work in Nuclear Medicine Departments during this year 2020)
- Performing and supervising the performance of diagnostic nuclear medicine procedures
- Clinical competencies:
- Preparation, imaging and interpretation of all diagnostic imaging and non-imaging nuclear medicine procedures.
- Patient preparation, administration, and follow-up of patients receiving radionuclide therapy.
- Attended training programs to deepen professional skillset and assisted in training fellow store associates on existing and new training programs.
- Built and managed relationships with key clients and partners to drive growth.
- Created and delivered presentations to internal and external stakeholders to showcase work.
- Assisted with staff training to enforce quality, safety and sanitation guidelines.
Medical Officer
MPILO CENTRAL HOSPITAL
Bulawayo
07.2008 - 07.2013
- Attending to patients referred from other departments as well as private practitioners presenting with malignancies.
- Performing counselling of patients diagnosed with malignant disease, including relatives and care-givers.
- Prescribing and administering cytotoxic and other therapy to cancer patients, including those on palliative care and HIV-related Kaposi sarcoma.
- Performing out-patient follow-up of all patients.
- Facilitated performance improvement initiatives for CME credit.
- Directed and coordinated patient care activities of nursing and support staff.
- Completed patient referrals to other medical specialists.
- Confirmed consistent and accurate medical recordkeeping practices.
- Ordered medical and laboratory supplies and equipment.
- Kept informed on advancements in field to contribute to medical research programs.
- Compiling and maintaining patient records, including the national cancer registry database.
MEDICAL OFFICER
MPILO CENTRAL HOSPITAL RADIOTHERAPY DEPARTMENT
Bulawayo
10.2005 - 06.2006
- Attending to patients referred from other departments as well as private practitioners presenting with malignancies.
- Performing counselling of patients diagnosed with malignant disease, including relatives and care-givers.
- Prescribing and administering cytotoxic and other therapy to cancer patients, including those on palliative care and HIV-related Kaposi sarcoma.
- Performing out-patient follow-up of all patients.
- Facilitated performance improvement initiatives for CME credit.
- Directed and coordinated patient care activities of nursing and support staff.
- Completed patient referrals to other medical specialists.
- Confirmed consistent and accurate medical recordkeeping practices.
- Ordered medical and laboratory supplies and equipment.
- Kept informed on advancements in field to contribute to medical research programs.
- Compiling and maintaining patient records, including the national cancer registry database.
RESIDENT MEDICAL OFFICER
MPILO CENTRAL HOSPITAL
Bulawayo
10.2003 - 09.2005
- Rotations through Medical, Surgical, Paediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynaecology departments, with competencies in the following:
- Emergency (casualty), in-patient, and out-patient management of common illnesses, including HIV/AIDS related conditions
- Management of obstetric and gynaecologic conditions such as pre-eclampsia and ectopic pregnancy with competency in performing caesarean sections, evacuation of the uterus, tubal ligations and insertion/ removal of hormonal contraceptive implants
- Management of common paediatric medical conditions
- Management of common emergency and non-emergency surgical conditions.
- Performed clinical procedures such as collecting blood.
- Collected information about patient histories, current conditions and vital statistics to make accurate determinations about conditions.
- Educated patients about procedures, conditions and medications.
- Wrote and updated patient prescriptions.
- Provided routine and emergency medical care to patients.
- Improved patient outcomes and delivery of care through improved clinical quality processes.
- Directed and coordinated patient care activities of nursing and support staff.
- Verified complex diagnoses to facilitate treatment plans.
- Assisted senior physicians and surgeons during assessments, examinations and surgical interventions.
- Ordered medical and laboratory supplies and equipment.
- Confirmed consistent and accurate medical recordkeeping practices.
- Interpreted diagnostic test results for deviations from normal.
- Completed patient referrals to other medical specialists.
Education
Fellowship of College of Nuclear Physicians - Nuclear Medicine
College of Medicine of South Africa (CMSA)
Capetown, South Africa 07.2013 - 05.2016
Master of Medicine - Nuclear Medicine
University of Stellenbosch
Stellenbosch, South Africa 08.2013 - 03.2018
Master of Science - Nuclear Medicine
University of Stellenbosch
Stellenbosch, South Africa 07.2006 - 06.2008
Bachelor of Medicine And Bachelor of Surgery MBChB - Medicine
University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences
Harare, Zimbabwe 02.1999 - 10.2003
Skills
Interpreting physician orders
undefinedAccomplishments
- Participant at a regional training course on clinical advantage of SPECT/CT in benign bone conditions held in Pretoria, South Africa, from 2 to 6 December 2019
- Course director for a regional (AFRA) training course for nuclear medicine technologists on Nephro-urology held in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, from 6 to 10 May 2019
- Participant at the regional (AFRA) training course for Nuclear Physicians in endocrinology held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 29 April to 3 May 2019
- Participant at the Regional (AFRA) training course on nuclear cardiology held in Port Louis, Mauritius, from 12 to 16 November 2018
- Participant at the Inter-regional training course in targeted radionuclide therapies held at MD Anderson Cancer Centre, Houston, Texas, USA, from 5 to 9 February 2018
- Participant at the Regional (AFRA) Advanced training course on Infection and Oncologic Imaging using Hybrid Imaging Technologies (SPECT and PET/CT) held in Pretoria, South Africa from 27 November to 2 December 2017
- Participant at the Regional (AFRA) training course on Infection and Oncologic Imaging using Hybrid Imaging Technologies (SPECT/CT and PET/CT) held in Abuja, Nigeria, from 6 to 10 November 2017
- Participant at the International Conference on Medical Imaging in Cardiovascular diseases (IMIC 2016), Vienna, Austria, 10-14 October 2016
- Participant at Regional (AFRA) First Coordination meeting on Sustaining Clinical Nuclear Medicine Techniques in the management of diseases, including coronary artery disease (RAF 6037) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 26-30 March 2012
- Participant at Regional (AFRA) expert meeting for piloting Technical Cooperation Monitoring and Evaluation methodologies and tools held in Harare, Zimbabwe 12-16 March 2012
- Participant at the Regional (AFRA) training course on PET-CT in Oncology applying 18F and 68Ga held in Cairo, Egypt 16-20 October 2011
- Participant at the IAEA Technical Co-operation Project Planning and design course for national project counterparts held in Accra, Ghana 17-21 January 2011
- Participant at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) Nuclear Medicine Update 5-9 March 2008 and presented a paper titled, “The added value of SPECT/CT imaging in the evaluation of equivocal skeletal lesions in patients with known malignant disease-Preliminary results”
- Participant at the Regional (AFRA) training course on applications of nuclear medicine techniques in paediatrics held in Capetown, South Africa from 19-23 November 2007
- Participant at the South African Society of Nuclear Medicine (SASNM) 12th biennial congress held in Port Elizabeth, South Africa 15-18 Aug 2006
- Professional Bodies
- Registered with the Health Professions Council of Namibia (HPCNA) as a specialist Nuclear Physician
- Registered with the Medical and Dental Practitioners’ Council of Zimbabwe (MDPCZ) in the register for Radiologists (Diagnostic).
Research Work
Published work
- Ndlovu X, Warwick J, George R, Ellmann A. Should SPECT-CT replace SPECT for the evaluation of equivocal bone scan lesions in patients with underlying malignancies? Nuclear Medicine Communications 2010;31:659-665. DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e3283399107
Unpublished work
- Support Vector Machine integration of nodal size and Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake on PET/CT in Suspected Lung Cancer – a pilot study (submitted in partial fulfilment of MMed in Nuclear Medicine with Stellenbosch University).
Affiliations
- Registered with the Health Professions Council of Namibia (HPCNA) as a specialist Nuclear Physician.
- Registered with the Medical and Dental Practitioners’ Council of Zimbabwe (MDPCZ) in the register for Radiologists (Diagnostic).
- Member of the Association of Radiologists and Radio-Oncologists of Zimbabwe (ARROZ).
- Fellow of the College of Nuclear Physicians of South Africa [FCNP(SA)].
- Member of the College of Medicine of South Africa (CMSA).
- Member of the South African Society of Nuclear Medicine (SASNM).
- Member of the Namibian Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (NSNMMI).
- Member of the African Cancer Coalition, a body of medical specialists working on harmonisation of the National Cancer Coalition Network (NCCN) guidelines for sub-Saharan Africa, in collaboration with NCCN, American Cancer Society (ACS) and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI).
References
Prof James M. Warwick
Head of Division and Consultant Nuclear Physician
Tygerberg Academic Hospital
Tygerberg 7505
Capetown
South Africa
Phone: +27 21 938 4265
Cell: +27 82 377 2907
Fax: +27 21 938 4694
email: jw@sun.ac.za
Dr Shitaleni C. Herman
Consultant Nuclear Physician
Namibia Nuclear Imaging
P.O.Box 86921
Windhoek
Namibia
Phone: +264 61 225 119
Cell: +264 81 170 0770
email: scherman@iway.na
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Marie Curie
Timeline
Consultant Nuclear Medicine Physician
Namibia Nuclear Imaging (NNI)
04.2021 - Current
LECTURER
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Faculty of Medicine
05.2020 - Current
ACTING CLINICAL DIRECTOR
MPILO CENTRAL HOSPITAL
04.2020 - 03.2021
Project Counterpart Regional Project (RAF6057)
Ministry of Health and Child Care, Zimbabwe
01.2020 - Current
Board Member
Radiation Protection Authority of Zimbabwe
08.2019 - Current
National Project Coordinator
Ministry of Health and Child Care, Zimbabwe
01.2018 - Current
Consultant Nuclear Medicine Physician
NUCLEAR MEDICINE PHYSICIAN, MPILO CENTRAL HOSPITAL
09.2016 - 03.2021
Project Counterpart IAEA Regional Project RAF6051
Ministry of Health and Child Care
01.2016 - 12.2021
Master of Medicine - Nuclear Medicine
University of Stellenbosch
08.2013 - 03.2018
Fellowship of College of Nuclear Physicians - Nuclear Medicine
College of Medicine of South Africa (CMSA)
07.2013 - 05.2016
Medical Officer
MPILO CENTRAL HOSPITAL
07.2008 - 07.2013
Master of Science - Nuclear Medicine
University of Stellenbosch
07.2006 - 06.2008
MEDICAL OFFICER
MPILO CENTRAL HOSPITAL RADIOTHERAPY DEPARTMENT
10.2005 - 06.2006
RESIDENT MEDICAL OFFICER
MPILO CENTRAL HOSPITAL
10.2003 - 09.2005
Bachelor of Medicine And Bachelor of Surgery MBChB - Medicine
University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences
02.1999 - 10.2003
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