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#TuesdayTakeOver – Dr Keorapetse (Keo) Tabane


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Dr. Tabane is a Medical Oncologist at Sandton Oncology and an Icon Oncology Network Oncologist. In May 2008, after 12 years of study, she became South Africa’s first black Medical Oncologist. She was born in Hebron, north of Pretoria, and matriculated from Tsogo High School in Mmakau. In 1999, she completed a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) at Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University - formerly known as Medunsa (Medical University of South Africa).

Following an internship at Kalafong Hospital in Atteridgeville, community service in Mokopane (previously known as Potgietersrus) and a stint in emergency medicine, Dr Tabane specialised in internal medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2002. She was certified as a specialist physician in 2005, and then went onto achieve her Medical Oncology qualification.

Guest:Dr Keo Tabane - Medical Oncologist at Sandton Oncology AND co-founder of the HappiMe Foundation
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