Jennifer Geel

Professor Jennifer Geel is the head of Paediatric Haematology-Oncology at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and the academic head of Division of Paediatric Haematology-Oncology at the University of the Witwatersrand. She currently serves as the president of the Africa branch of the International Paediatric Oncology Society (SIOP Africa) and is the principal investigator of the South African National Hodgkin lymphoma group. She is a founder member of SEARCH, which is the research arm of the South African Association of Paediatric Haematology-Oncology. She has a strong interest in stem cell transplantation and the Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer’s six focus cancers with an emphasis on the use of artificial intelligence in Africa.