PANDA-SA

The Paediatric Neurology and Development Association of Southern Africa (PANDA-SA) was inaugurated in Bloemfontein at 12h45 on Thursday the 26TH of September 1996, at the SA Paediatric Association’s biannual meeting.

Background

After being fortunate to have been awarded the Kathleen Swallow Fellowship to obtain my PhD in Child Development at the University of Alberta, Canada, I was able to join several international neurology and developmental associations in Canada and the USA. The usefulness of these organizations were not lost on me, and I realized that if the two fledgling sub-specialities of Child Neurology and Development were to thrive and grow, we would have to institute a similar association in South Africa also...read more