Professor Rudo Makunike - Mutasa

Rudo Mutasa is a Professor of Pathology at the University Of Zimbabwe College Of Health Sciences, in Harare, Zimbabwe where she founded the MMed training program and chairs the department of Histopathology. She is widely travelled and holds international and regional certification with COPECSA, European Board of Pathology and the Royal College of pathologists. In addition to being a fellow of the Royal College of Pathology, Prof Mutasa is the Zimbabwe country advisor and a member of the International Paediatric Pathology Society.

A founding fellow of the College of Pathologists of East, Central and Southern Africa, Prof Mutasa is the college’s current registrar. As the secretary general of the Zimbabwe Association of Pathologists, Prof Mutasa is committed towards, advancing Pathology through training and mentorship as well as using her networks at international, regional and at country level. She is passionate about pathology and teaching.

Happenings

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ASAP in collaboration with the College of Pathologists of East, Central and Southern Africa (COPECSA) and Aga Khan University (AKU) held a successful 2.5 day workshop on cancer staging with over 20 pathologists from across the ECSA region and expert faculty from the United States, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.

The workshop series, held November 16-18, 2018; at AKU in Nairobi, Kenya, featured the following cancers:

Head & Neck
Breast
Endometrial & Ovarian
Gastric & Esophageal.

The sessions consisted of short, 30 minute lectures covering the most important information for solving the cases, 2-hour sessions for completing cases in small groups, and a 1-hour session where challenging, local cases were reviewed by the expert faculty.