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Janine Heckman

Janine Heckman

Professor of Neurology at University of Cape Town specializing in neurogenetics, neuromuscular diseases, and genomic medicine in African populations.

Jul 22, 2026

28:57
And, and, you know, one person can't do everything you do sort of,
29:03
I mean, if you almost think of where we started again, you know, I started in the neurogenetics clinic as a neurologist and the person that was there with me was a medical geneticist.
29:16
Now, that role has actually changed completely.
29:19
Because now I'm in the field, not with another doctor, but I'm now in the clinic with a genetic counsellor.
29:27
So that role is almost completely being taken up by somebody that now understands the genetics part and how it fits into the bigger picture of genomics and how to counsel a patient.
29:42
But I think to come back to the bioinformatics point is that there is so much data.
29:49
And it comes back to your point as well, is that you really do have to be a super specialist.

7 MINS LATER

37:00
And I think that's something that people should definitely move forward with their training as well and keeping that in mind and sort of having a, again, a multidisciplinary united team that sort of has the same perspective on the South African genomic medicine field.

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