
Janine Heckman
Professor of Neurology at University of Cape Town specializing in neurogenetics, neuromuscular diseases, and genomic medicine in African populations.
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Jul 22, 2026
Training the Future: Building the Next Generation of Clinical Genomics Practitioners in South Africa
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Janine HeckmanGUEST
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.

Janine HeckmanGUEST
Because now I'm in the field, not with another doctor, but I'm now in the clinic with a genetic counsellor.

Janine HeckmanGUEST
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.

Janine HeckmanGUEST
But I think to come back to the bioinformatics point is that there is so much data.

Janine HeckmanGUEST
And it comes back to your point as well, is that you really do have to be a super specialist.
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Erin KinghornHOST
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.