Faculty members

Savvas Andronikou

Savvas Andronikou [MBBCh (Wits), FCRad (Diagn)(SA), FRCR (Lond), PhD (UCT), PhD (Wits)] is a pediatric radiologist and full professor at both the University of Bristol (UK) and the University of Cape Town (South Africa). He supervises multiple masters and PhD students, has authored over 200 publications, 4 books and further chapters in books. He was previously HOD of Radiology at Red Cross Children’s Hospital in Cape Town, Johannesburg Hospital and Tygerberg Hospital and he has held Chairs in Radiology at the Universities of Stellenbosch and Witwatersrand. He has received research awards from the College of Radiologists of South Africa, Stellenbosch University and University of the Witwatersrand. Other awards include scholarships of the Radiological Society of North America, the Derek Harwood Nash scholarship and Honorary Membership of the Society of Pediatric Radiology in 2013. He has served as councilor, secretary and has been president of the College of Radiologists of South Africa for two terms. He was also founding chairman of the South African Society of Pediatric Imaging and the African Society of Pediatric Imaging. He now serves as vice chair of the international committee of the Radiological Society of North America for Africa and middle East. He has been a ‘visiting professor’ at Children’s Hospital Philadelphia; Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford; Toronto Hospital for Sick Children; Mercy Children’s Hospital, Kansas City, Columbia Medical Centre, NYC; UCSF Medical Centre, San Francisco; Black Lion Hospital, Addis Ababa; University of Pretoria and MEDUNSA. As chairman of the outreach committee of the World Federation of Pediatric Imaging he created a volunteer group of radiologists and continues to provide daily volunteer tele-reading for Medecins Sans Frontiers. He is currently consultant radiologist and full Professor at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children and the University of Bristol.