Rudo Makunike

Rudo Makunike-Mutasa is a Zimbabwean female pediatric pathologist who was educated at the University of Zimbabwe, (UZ) as well as the University of Sheffield.

Her rise

Zimbabwe, a developing country, has gone from the traditional healer, practising in a hut to a female histopathologist practicing in a fairly modern setting. Dr. Makunike is rated as one of the best students to have graduated from the then Faculty of Medicine of the University of Zimbabwe. She was the best student in her graduating class. She is renowend for her excellent command of the English language and is a highly rated lecturer at UZ.

Awards

1995/96 The Gordon Signy Foreign Fellowship of the World Pathology Foundations

Leadership

* Chairperson Department of Histopatholgy, UZ
* Senior member of Zimbabwe's health regulatory

External links

* [http://www.uz.ac.zw/medicine/histopathology/staff.html Bio at University of Zimbabwe]
* [http://www.dokkyomed.ac.jp/dep-k/cli-path/WPF-Gor.html The Gordon Signy Foreign Fellowship]
* [http://www.spponline.org/nwsltr/02sp.htm#06 Society for Pediatric Pathology]