Psychiatrists
Psychiatrists - Tygerberg
Adult Psychiatry
Dr Kerry-Ann Louw
MBChB, FCPsych, MMed (Psych), MPhil (Liaison Mental Health)
Tel: 021 938 9116
Dr Louw is a Consultation-Liaison Psychiatrist and senior lecturer at Stellenbosch University. She is the Head of the Clinical Unit of adult psychiatry services and runs consultation-liaison psychiatry services at Tygerberg Hospital.
Dr Kate Mawson
MBCHB, DA(SA), FCPsych, MMed (Psych)
Tel: 021 938 9489
Dr. Mawson is a senior lecturer and Head of the Eating Disorders Unit at Tygerberg Hospital. Dr. Mawson is also a consultant for the acute admission ward at Tygerberg Hospital. Her research interests include community mental health and health systems, eating disorders and bariatric surgery, and evidence-based treatments for psychiatric illnesses and personality pathology. Dr. Mawson is also the departmental liaison for the International postgraduate (supernumerary) portfolio.
Dr Leigh L. van den Heuvel
MBChB, FCPsych, MMed (Psych), PhD
Tel: 021 938 9623
Dr van den Heuvel is a psychiatrist and senior lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry, Stellenbosch University and runs the neuropsychiatry unit at Tygerberg Hospital. Her primary research interests include stress-related conditions, psychoneuroendocrinology, and neuropsychiatry, with a focus on HIV psychiatry. She also has an interest in healthcare worker wellness and in utilising technology to broaden the reach of interventions. Dr van den Heuvel manages the Stellenbosch University Department of Psychiatry Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) clinical and research service.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Dr Anusha Lachman
MBChB, DCH, FCPsych, MMed (Psych), Cert Child Psych, MPhil (Child & Adolescent Psychiatry), PhD
Tel: 021 938 9021/4573
Fax: 021 938 6111
Dr Lachman is the C&A consultant at the adolescent inpatient unit at Tygerberg Hospital and the Head of the Clinical Unit at Tygerberg Child Psychiatry. She is also the program convener for the MPhil in Infant Mental Health. Dr Lachman's research interests include maternal and infant mental health, adolescent neuropsychiatry, and paediatric consultation-liaison psychiatry.
Dr Fiona Schulte
MD, Dr. Med. FCPsych, Certificate Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (CMSA), Diploma in Therapeutic Communications with Children
Tel: 021 938 4573
Dr Schute is the consultant in the Child Psychiatry & Family Outpatient Unit at Tygerberg Hospital and a senior lecturer at Stellenbosch University. She is also the deputy program convener for the MPhil Child & Adolescent Psychiatry programme.
Dr Graham de Bever
MBChB, DCH
Tel: 021 938 4651
Dr de Bever is the medical officer in C&A Psychiatry OPD. His special interests include neurodiversity (including ADHD) and gender diversity in children and adolescents.
Dr Heidi Sinclair
E-mail: [email protected]
Dr Elizabeth Vogt
E-mail: [email protected]
Psychiatrists - Stikland
Professor Liezl Koen
MBChB, MMed (Psych), PhD
Tel: 021 940 8718/4455
Prof Koen is a senior specialist and associate professor. She is also the head of clinical services at Stikland Hospital. Her interests include schizophrenia, emergency psychiatry, and psychopharmacology.
Professor Dana Niehaus
MBChB, MMed (Psych), DMed
Tel: 021 940 8718/4455
Prof Dana Niehaus is a subspecialist in Geriatric Psychiatry and heads the Psychogeriatric team at Stikland Hospital.
Dr Lize Weich
MBChB, MRCPsych, FCPsych
Tel: 021 940 8718/4455
Dr Weich is a senior psychiatrist and lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry. She is based at Stikland Hospital and has been responsible for establishing and coordinating the substance abuse program of the Associated Psychiatric Hospitals in the Western Cape since 2003. Areas of research interest include opioid dependence, methamphetamine dependence, and dual diagnosis.
Professor Ulla Botha
MBChB, FCPsych, MMed (Psych)
Tel: 021 940 8718/4455
Prof Botha is a specialist who heads the Specialized Outreach Services Program at Stikland Hospital and a senior lecturer at the Department of Psychiatry. Her research interests include the following: assertive treatment programs, schizophrenia, stigma in mental illness, and teaching health sciences.
Dr Lucy Jarvis
BA Hons, MBBS, FCPsych, MMed (Psych)
Tel: 021 940 8718/4455
Dr Jarvis completed her undergraduate medical training in the UK. She specialized in psychiatry at Stellenbosch University. She is currently a consultant in the therapeutic unit at Stikland Hospital and has an interest in borderline personality disorder and substance use disorders.
Dr Anthea Maziena
MBChB, FCPsych, MMed (Psych)
Tel: 021 940 8718/4455
Dr Maziena is a consultant psychiatrist in the male acute unit at Stikland Hospital.
Dr Roxanne Jones
BPharm, MSc (Medicinal Chemistry), MBChB, FCPsych, MMed (Psych)
Tel: 021 940 8718/4455
Dr Jones is a consultant psychiatrist in the female acute unit at Stikland Hospital.
Dr Ingrid Eloff
E-mail: [email protected]
Dr Thabo Mogotlane
E-mail: [email protected]
Dr Sihle Nhlabathi
Tel: +27 21 938 9510
E-mail: [email protected]
Psychiatrists - Lentegeur
Dr Rob Allen
BSc (Computer Science and Mathematical Statistics), MBChB, FCPsych, MBA
Tel: 021 370 1314
Fax: 086 515 4569
Dr Allen is the head of clinical services (Principal Specialist) at Lentegeur Hospital and Western Cape State Employees Special interest Group of the South African Society Of Psychiatrists. His interests include leadership, specifically the psychiatrist as a leader in public mental health settings.
Dr Rene Nassen
MBChB, FCPsych, Cert Child Psych, MPhil Child Psych
Tel: 021 370 1316
Fax: 086 515 4569
Dr Nassen is a psychiatrist (Child & Adolescent Psychiatry) and lecturer at the Department of Psychiatry. She is particularly interested in the neuropsychiatric aspects of HIV.
Dr Lebogang Phahladira
MBChB, DMH, FCPsych, PhD
Tel: 021 370 1111
Fax: 086 515 4569
Dr Lebogang Phahladira heads the adult psychotherapeutic unit at Lentegeur Hospital. His areas of interest are long-term outcomes in schizophrenia, and personality disorders.
Dr Kaveshin Naidu
Psychiatrists - Other
Dr Bongiwe Tyhala
District Psychiatrist - Nothern/Tygerberg
Karl Bremer Hospital and Eersteriver Hospital
Dr Charl Prinsloo
District Psychiatrist - Paarl
Tel: 021 860 2531
Fax: 021 872 0277