CURRICULUM VITAE

DR. ANDY BRANFIELD

CURRICULUM VITAE Dr Andy Branfield

PERSONAL DETAILS

NAME: Dr A.S. Branfield

DATE OF BIRTH: 14 September 1962

FAMILY: Happily married, with 3 children

OTHER: SABAP2 Citizen Scientist doing regular bird atlassing with ADU Department of UCT and SA National Parks Honorary Rangers West Rand Region

Field testing of various Computer Programs including Roberts VII Multimedia for PC and PDA [Birding Programs]

Play testing and historical research of numerous World War I and II computer games including Blitzkrieg I mods [Barbarossa, Kursk and Panzerkrieg] and Blitzkrieg II

Served on working group of Vulture Study Group and Raptor Conservation Group (birds of prey conservation)

Longstanding member of Endangered Wildlife Trust, Wildlife Society and SA Ornithology Society

Holder of various diplomas in Christian studies, and was a leader in the Children’s ministry at Rhema Bible Church, Randburg

EDUCATION

MBBCh at University of the Witwatersrand, 1980 – 1985 Diploma in Diving and Submarine Medicine at Maritime Medical Institute in 1987 Diploma in Aviation Medicine at Institute of Aviation Medicine in 1988 Registration with Department of Labour as a diving medical examiner , from 1988 Senior aviation medical examiner registered with the Department of Transport from 1988 Advanced cardiac life support course (A.C.L.S), 1996 Since 1999, Certificate in Sports Medicine, Graduate Diploma in Sports Medicine and MSpMed through

University of New South Wales, Australia Registered with SAHUMA as a category II hyperbaric physician since 1998 Awarded bursary to attend 1999 I.O.C. Intercontinental Sports Medicine course and SASMA conference

o 2005 attended both FIMS Team Physician Development and Advanced Team Physician Courses Immediate Past President of SAUMA and Board Member of DAN Southern Africa

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PAST EMPLOYMENT

Housemanship: Coronation Hospital, Johannesburg - 1986 Senior House Officer (paediatrics) at Coronation Hospital and Johannesburg Hospital - 1987 Medical Officer (paediatrics) at 1 Military Hospital - 1988-89, including six months spent in northern

Namibia as a medical officer with experience in tropical medicine, anaesthetics and trauma General practice in Randburg since March 1989- – large, mixed general practice of all ages,

Predominantly families with children, and recreational sports people

PRESENT EMPLOYMENT

Full-time general practice with special interest in emergency medicine, sports medicine, diving and hyperbaric medicine, and aviation medicine

Partner, Medicross, Randburg (Since July 1996) – large 24-hour family-orientated practice with Emergency, radiology, and physiotherapy/optometry/audiology/psychology/dietetics facilities

Works as a Sports Physician with Jon Patricios at Rosebank Centre for Sports Medicine and Orthopaedics since April 2010

Medical adviser to Transvaal Speleological Society and Mountain Club Committee member of South African Hyberbaric and Underwater Medicine Association Member of South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society Member of South African Sports Medicine Association Member of FIMS (International Federation of Sports Medicine) Member of Sportsdoc Australia Member of South African Space and Environmental Medicine Association Diving medical examiner, registered with Dept. of Labour since 1988 Senior aviation medical examiner Registered with Sports Information and Science Agency (SISA) and FIMS as a sports medicine

practitioner Past International Ice Hockey Federation Medical Supervisor for International Ice Hockey Tournaments

since 2004 Since 2010 Match Doctor at Ellis Park for all provincial Currie Cup and Super Rugby Competitions

involving the Lions Senior U 21 and U19 teams Match doctor at Soccer City for the Tri-Nations Test Match South Africa vs New Zealand (21/08/2010) Stadium doctor at the Wanderers Cricket Stadium for the IPL Championship League 2010 Assist with treating the Bizhub Lions Cricket Team as well as various local and international cricket

teams Centre for Sports Medicine and Orthopaedics in Rosebank part time from April 2010

RESEARCH

Antidiarrhoeal trial gastro unit, Coronation Hospital (Paediatric Unit) - 1987 Roche Tilcotil Trial - 1990 Servier Coversyl Trial - 1991 Sandoz Dyacirc Trial - 1993 Pfizer Sertraline Trial / Glaxo Cefuroxwe Trial - 1995 Roche International influenza surveillance study - 2000 Researcher for UCT Sports Science Institute various studies since April 2010

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EXPERIENCE IN FIELD

General practice in Randburg, Gauteng from 1988- o A large general practice with nine other general practitioners, emergency room and theatre

facilitieso Currently practicing general and emergency medicine, dealing with a wide range of problems

and ailments, from the routine through to the acute emergencyo Working closely with nursing and paramedical staff at the practice, To give the patient the best

possible treatment and referring to specialists when necessary Consulting at a sports medicine clinic together with physiotherapists, Biokinetesists, orthotist, and

orthopaedic surgeon, at Rosebank Centre for Sports Medicine and Orthopedics since April 2010 Doing aviation medicals up to senior commercial pilot level, and certifying fit to fly Doing diving medicals in sports and commercial divers Medical Officer All Africa Games Jonesburg 1999 covering Men’s and Woman’s Field Hockey Past Chief medical officer for the South African Ice Hockey Association since 2001 Organizing medical officer at Group II (Ice Hockey World Championships held in Cape Town April

2002) Chief medical officer for the Senior men’s national ice hockey team at two world championships Cape Town 2002 and Seoul Korea 2003 (both South African and Australian National Teams)

Tournament Medical Supervisor for the IIHF since 2004 Match Doctor at Ellis Park and Soccer City for provincial and international rugby matches Medical advisor to ‘Little Legends’ a community based football project

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PUBLICATIONS / ARTICLES / BOOKS / LECTURES

Lecturer at conferences on underwater and aviation medicine in 1995 and 1997 Lecturer at conferences on aviation medicine in 1996 Lecturer at conference on sports medicine in 1997 Lecturer at course on diving and hyperbaric medicine in 1997 and 1998 Presented papers at SAHUMA Conference (1995, 1997); SASEMA Conference (1996) and International

Sports Medicine Conference (1997,2003,2011)o Papers on asthma and diving, histoplasmosis and cave diving, and ran a corticosteroid

workshop Articles published:

o WOMAN IN MEDICINE in South African Family Practice (in two parts), 1984.o CHILD ABUSE AT CORONATION HOSPITAL in South African Medical Journal, 1986.o ARE ASTHMATICS FIT TO SCUBA-DIVE? in South African, Journal of Sports Medicine, vol 4 no 1,

March 1997.o GUIDELINES FOR THE OUTPATIENT TREATMENT OF ACUTE SYMPTOMATIC PULMONARY

HISTOPLASMOSIS IN CAVERS, in the South African Journal of Sports Medicine, 2002;9(1):3-6.o USE OF TISSUE ADHESIVES IN SPORT - A NEW APPLICATION IN INTERNATIONAL ICE HOCKEY,

the British Medical Journal 2004;38:94-95.o Co-Author THE SPORTS CONCUSSION NOTE: SHOULD SCAT BECOME SCOAT?, BJSM Online First

published December 5th 2011 as 10.1136/bjsports-2011-090386 Current research in general practice on histoplasmosis in cavers in Gauteng; and on novice/experienced

scuba divers with asthma. Lecturer on Carbon Monoxide Poisoning at UHMS training course 1997 onwards Lecturer at International Conference on Drugs and Legislation 2000

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