
Welcome to the Wits Faculty of Health Sciences’ class of 1961’s webpage
CLASS MEMBERS’ BIOGRAPHIES

Avinoam Bakst
MB BCh (Wits) 1961,
FCP(SA) 1976.

Bennie Himpoo
MB BCh (Wits) 1961,. MRCP (Edinburgh), FRACP (Australia).

Brian Noll
MB BCh (Wits) 1961.

Clive Noble
MB BCh (Wits) 1961,
FRCSA Orthopaedics (SA).


Cyprian Cyril Lizo Nongauza
MB BCh (Wits) 1961.

David Klugman
MB BCh (Wits) 1961, FRCS 1969, B Merit Award 1981.

Ellen Viyuswa Blekie
B.Sc. (Fort Hare University) 1953, MB BCh (Wits) 1961.

Ernie Finberg
MB BCh (Wits) 1961.


Gillian Nathan
MB BCh (Wits) 1961.

Harold Arthur Serebro
MB BCh (Wits) 1961,
M.D. Rand 1972,
CRCP 1968,
FRCP(Canada) 1972,
FACP(US) 1982,
PhD Econ UOFS 2003.

Harriette Kahn
MB BCh (Wits) 1961.
MRCPath (London) 1978,
FRCPath (London) 1980,
MD Canada,
FRCPC 1980,
Prof. U of T 1997.

Hymie Ronald Vinik
MB BCh (Wits) 1961.


Ivan Samson
MB BCh (Wits) 1961, D.C.H (Glasgow),
M.R.C.P. (London),
F.R.C.P. (Edinburgh & Canada),
L.M.C.C. (Canada).

John Leslie Eidelman
MB BCh (Wits) 1961.

Joshua Nafte
MB BCh (Wits) 1961.

Keith William Heimann
MB BCh (Wits) 1961. Wits. Ed. Rand


Leonard B. Seeff
MB BCh (Wits) 1961,

Lorna Swartz
MB BCh (Wits) 1961. BA Hon Psychology (UP) 1975, MA Psychology (Rand Afrikaans Uni) 1979, Diploma Learning Disabilities (UNC), 1981 E.C.F.M.G. Certification, 1982 F.L.E.X. (Illinois), 1984 Adult and Child Psychiatry.

Mariam Vania
MB BCh (Wits) 1961. FRCP(C)

Michael Charles Kew
MB BCh (Wits) 1961. FCP (SA) 1965. MD (Wits) 1968. MRCP (London) 1971. PhD 1974. FRCP 1979. DSC 1982


Michael Ronthal
MB BCh (Wits) 1961, FCP(SA), MRCP (SA), MRCP London), Cert Neurology (US).

Percy Walter Bryce Pease
MB BCh (Wits) 1961. FRCS.

Raymond Coll
B.Comm., MB BCh (Wits) 1961, Cert Neurology (WCMC)

Richard Gross
MB BCh (Wits) 1961.


Selwyn B. Levitt
MB BCh (Wits) 1961, M.D. (USA), F.A.U.A. (USA), F.A.C.S. (USA ).

Stanley Julius Rohald
MB BCh (Wits) 1961.

W.P (Perry) Leary
MB BCh (Wits) 1961, MSc (Rand) 1966, FCP(SA) 1966, DPhil (Oxon) 1970, DSc Med (Rand), MRCP (London) 1967, FRCP (London), FRCPI (Ireland).


Peter Arnold
MB BCh (Wits) 1961, OAM BSc

John Festenstein
MB BCh (Wits) 1961, FFR FRCR (UK)

Jeffrey Maisels
MB BCh (Wits) 1961, DSc (Rand)


Wolfe Rakusin
MB BCh (Wits) 1961, Diploma in Ophthalmology (RCPI), PhD (Med) (Wits) 1975

Sydney Biddulph
MMB BCh (Wits) 1961, FCS (SA) 1966, FRCS (Eng) 1967, FRCS Edin 1967

Mervyn Damelin
MB BCh (Rand)


John Read
MBBCh (Rand). FRCS (Edin) MRCOG APSSA. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon (Ret)
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