Board of Trustees - Colleges of Medicine of South Africa

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Board of Trustees

Extract from the MoI and Rules of The Colleges of Medicine of South Africa

Duties and Responsibilities

There shall be a board of trustees of the CMSA to manage matters related to fund-raising and the investment of funds raised by the board of trustees.
The board of trustees shall be constituted every 3 years at the first meeting of each new Senate and shall consist of not less than 9 members or such
greater or smaller number (at all times being an odd number) as the Senate may from time to time decide; provided always that in case the Senate decides
to reduce the number of trustees, such reduction shall not be to a number
less than seven.
The board of trustees shall comprise medical and non-medical persons and it shall be in the discretion of the Senate to determine whether a trustee has been appointed in the capacity of a medical or a non-medical trustee.
The trustees shall be:

1. the president of the CMSA for the time being, as the deputy chairperson of the board of trustees, or his/her delegate;
2. such additional persons as may be appointed by the Senate of the CMSA, provided always that not less than one half of the 19 trustees thus appointed shall be members of the CMSA, one of whom shall be the immediate past president of the CMSA;
3. an honorary treasurer, who shall, unless otherwise directed by the Senate, be the honorary treasurer of the CMSA.

The newly constituted board of trustees shall take office at the first meeting of the board after every new Senate is elected and at that meeting, the board of
trustees shall elect a chairperson from amongst the non-medical trustees.
The activities of the board of trustees, its meetings and other deliberations shall be determined from time to time by the board of trustees and any disputes shall be referred to the Senate which shall determine the resolution of such a dispute.

CMSA BOARD OF TRUSTEES

President – Cape Town
Prof J (Johan) Fagan

Immediate Past President – Gauteng
Prof F (Flavia) Senkubuge

Honorary Treasurer
Prof L (Linda) Visser Honorary

Immediate Past Chairperson FGPC – Cape Town
Prof A (Alan) Davidson

Immediate Past Honorary Treasurer 2020-2023 – Cape Town
Prof R D (Richard) Pitcher

Gauteng
Prof D E (Daynia) Ballot

Previous Senator – College of Family Physicians – Cape Town
Prof D A (Derek) Hellenberg

Senator – College of Neurosurgeons –
Cape Town
Dr R (Rohen) Harrichandparsad

Senator – College of Plastic Surgeons
Prof N (Nkhensani) Chauke-Malinga

Senator – College of Cardiothoracic Surgeons – Gauteng
Prof R F (Risenga) Chauke-Malinga

Senator – College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
Prof P (Priya) Soma-Pillay