AWARD categories
- Lex Visser Lifetime Achievement Award
- HCP Excellence Award
- Healthcare Leadership Award
- Digital Healthcare Innovation Award
- Community Service Award
- Health Science Student Award
- Young Doctors Merit Award
INTRODUCTION TO THE EVENT
The ASAIPA National Medical Awards (NMA) have been created as a prestigious platform of honour for independent private health practitioners within South Africa. This prestige event is hosted annually by ASAIPA and once again will be made possible by the generosity of dedicated sponsors. There are five practitioner associations participating in the NMA, each association nominating and selecting its own candidate(s) internally.
The In-Person NMA Gala Event will take place on 2 June 2023 at The Houghton Hotel in Johannesburg.
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LEX VISSER LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
This prestigious award is given to an individual who has made, and continues to make, an outstanding contribution to improving health and healthcare for all South Africans. An individual who has given a productive lifetime of distinguished service to medicine.
Dr. Visser had an illustrious career as an IPA leader in South Africa. He worked as a gynaecologist in Bloemfontein, and it was during this time that he became interested in the welfare of family practitioners in private practice. He was CEO of Asaipa after starting the alliance with a few national leaders in 2006. It soon grew to have 2000 members and had the biggest national footprint of all the IPA’s in South Africa. He later co- formed the IPA Foundation with the SAMCC, ASAIPA, SPNet and CPC Qualicare and became its first CEO. Dr. Visser was an innovative and industrious leader in the healthcare industry and was widely respected by all his peers and all key opinion leaders in South African healthcare.
Healthcare Leadership Award
This award recognizes organizations, groups or individuals, who exemplifies the qualities of dedicated leadership, to inspire impactful solutions within South Africa’s healthcare system that positively affect both patients and colleagues.
Health Science Student Award
This award is given to a Health Science student each year for exemplary dedication, commitment and leadership.
Community Service Award
This award is given to an organisation, group or individual dedicating their time, skill and expertise to assist community advancement by making a positive effect on the health and wellbeing of the community.
Digital Healthcare Innovation Award
This is awarded to pioneers, innovators and influencers advancing Digital Healthcare in South Africa.
HCP Excellence Award
This award recognises private practice practitioners contributing significantly to improving Primary Health Care (PHC) delivery.
Young Doctors Merit Award
This award recognises final year students within South Africa who excelled in Academics, Leadership and their passion for serving in the community.
NMA 2022 Award Winners
The Alliance of South Africa Independent Practitioners Associations (ASAIPA) is a National Network and Representative Organisation, representing the interest of 13 IPA’s, throughout South Africa.
Our purpose is to represent all primary healthcare practitioners in independent private practice to be part of a multi-disciplinary group and/or referral network of practitioners.
In ASAIPA independent practitioners form an alliance with other practitioners with similar interests in their area to mutually benefit from the union that they form locally and nationally.
BIO + KINETICS = LIFE + MOVEMENT = LIFE THROUGH MOVEMENT
The Science of Movement and the application of exercise in rehabilitative treatment of performance.
Biokinetics’ primary function is to improve physical functioning and health care through exercise as a modality.
Biokinetics is the profession concerned with health promotion, the maintenance of physical abilities and final phase rehabilitation, by means of scientifically-based physical activity programme prescription.
Dr. Nceba Hene
HCP Excellence Award
Dr. Takalani Muluvhu and Dr. Aayesha Kholvadia
Health care Leadership award
Mari Leach
DIGITAL HEALTHCARE INNOVATION AWARD
TBPR Community Clinic
Community Service Award
Biography
Professor Karen Welman of the Division of Movement Science and Exercise Therapy at Stellenbosch University initiated the Tygerberg Biokinetics Pediatric Rheumatology (TBPR) Community Clinic in May 2021. No Biokineticist was available then to run the clinic until Su-ané Zwiegelaar was employed in July 2021. Consequently, the clinic has been functioning smoothly in collaboration with the Movement Laboratories at Stellenbosch University and the specialist pediatric rheumatology clinic of Dr. Dee Raju Abraham at Tygerberg Hospital. Since our establishment, we have consulted approximately 130 children and provided home programs for approximately 90 children.
Children consulted in the clinic are diagnosed with rheumatological conditions, such as juvenile idiopathic arthritis, juvenile dermatomyositis, and hypermobility spectrum disorder. On Tuesdays, each patient attending their specialist physician visit is counseled by the Biokineticist on the health benefits of exercise and provided with an exercise flyer. Children are also invited to attend an in-person Biokinetics consultation, where assessments are conducted to prescribe an individualized scientific-based exercise home program. Here, Honors Biokinetics students are also provided the opportunity to shadow sessions. Hence the clinic provides a student educational platform as well.
The clinic setup could be better, as some patients are lost between the processes of patient counseling and follow-up. Such loss is related to a lack of funding and transportation difficulties to attend such sessions. However, we do our best to provide each child with the best service possible. Instilling physical activity at the grassroots will improve child participation in physical activity and allow them to gain the health benefits thereof all throughout their life.
The South African Association of Audiologists (SAAA) is an interest group originally formed by South African Audiologists in private practice, but since 2002, SAAA also represents and is supported by South African Audiologists employed in all fraternities.
The aim and purpose of SAAA is to develop and promote AUDIOLOGY to the public, medical and educational fraternities and other related healthcare professions. In the quest to promote audiology and in striving towards professional service excellence, SAAA actively liaises with statutory institutions e.g. HPCSA, medical aids, related professional associations / bodies etc.
The SA Optometric Association is a Professional Association registered as a Non-Profit Company (NPC) representing optometrists and dispensing opticians in South Africa. Membership of the SAOA encompasses all forms of practice modalities in the private sector including independent practice, group practice, and franchise models, as well as optometrists employed in the public sector, academia, and industry.
The main objective of the Association is to promote and protect the collective interests of its membership in good standing, and in so doing, promote the interests of the professions, generally, as well as the public.
The SASP is a voluntary professional membership organisation committed to equal opportunities and inclusivity, and striving to support the demographic profile of South Africa in terms of race and gender. The SASP is Non-Profit Organisation, and part of our mission is to assist Government with the social and development needs of the country (SARS, 2014). The SASP is also a Public Benefit Organisation. We therefore strive to use our funds responsibly and solely for their stated objectives, without any personal gain being enjoyed by any person including the founders and the fiduciaries (SARS, 2014).
The Young Doctors Merit Award, awarded to the top final year Medical Students in South Africa.
