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CURRICULUM VITAE:
STEFANUS SNYMAN
M.B., Ch. B (Stell.); MPhil (Health ScEd) CUM LAUDE (Stell.); Diploma in
Occupational Medicine (Stell.)
HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATIONISTS
OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE PRACTITIONER
PARTNERSHIP FACILITATOR & TRAINER
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANT
A health professions educationist and lecturer with a special interest in competency-based
interprofessional education and collaborative practice, mHealth solutions enabling an interprofessional
bio-psycho-social-spiritual person-centred approach to transform health workforce education and
systems for health, social accountability in medical schools enabling graduates as change agents for
health in the 21st century.
A qualified occupational medicine practitioner and lecturer with a special interest in work-related upper
limb disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, executive burnout and health information and
communications technology (ICT) systems.
Experienced partnership facilitator, trainer and project manager, developing consensus-based
partnerships throughout Africa to serve the underserved.
Personal interest in using ICT creatively in education and clinical practice. A proven background as
consultant, strategist and trainer to major local and international non-profit organisations in the
planning, development and implementation of mHealth solutions, websites, web 2.0 functionalities,
databases, communication and fund-raising strategies.
Excellent organisational abilities, and proven communication, administration, and interpersonal skills.
Currently, Manager: Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice at Centre for Health
Professions Education at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South
Africa. This includes responsibilities to help integrate the Faculty’s core competencies for
interprofessional collaborative practice into undergraduate programmes, to introduce the framework of
the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) as interprofessional, bio-
psycho-social-spiritual approach to person- and community-centred care, and to help build the capacity
of faculty to act as agents of change.
Also facilitator of an international mHealth partnership developing the ICanFunction mobile solution
(mICF) solution utilising big data and artificial intelligence in providing interprofessional predictive,
individualised care; president of Africa Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice Network;
Secretariat the World Health Organisation’s Functioning and Disability Reference Group, member of the
advisory board of the Journal of Interprofessional Care; member of international In-2-Theory Network for
interprofessional scholarship, education and practice
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SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
2009 – 2016
Founder and facilitator of an international mHealth partnership developing the ICanFunction mobile
solution (mICF) utilising patient-driven big data and artificial intelligence in providing interprofessional
predictive, individualised continuity of care. mICF forms part of the work plan of the Functioning and
Disability Reference Group (FDRG) of the World Health Organization’s Family of International
Classifications Network (WHO-FIC).
Result: 283 partners from 42 countries joined the International mICF Partnership. The first proof of
concept is currently under development in Finland, funded by the Finnish Social Security Agency (Kela).
Won 4 poster awards at the previous three WHO-FIC Network Conferences.
Secretariat of the WHO-FIC FDRG.
Result: Contributor to the WHO’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)
Practical Guide.
Stellenbosch University’s interprofessional education initiative was selected as one of four projects
globally to form part of the Institute of Medicine’s Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professions
Education.
Result: Invited to join as member of In-2-Theory, an international network with the remit to investigate
interprofessional scholarship, education and practice; invited to join the advisory board of the Journal
of Interprofessional Care; invited as Hokenstad international key note speaker at the Congress of Social
Work Educators in the USA.
Co-founder of ICFeduction.org, an interactive web site to promote the sharing of ICF training material.
Result: The First International Symposium: ICF Education, was held in Helsinki, Finland (2015)
Co-founder and first president of Africa Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice Network
(AfIN)
Result: AfIN joined the international interprofessional education network, All Together Better Health.
Invited as key note speaker at a symposium of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf),
investigating interprofessional education in the future of health professions education in South Africa.
Result: Co-author of a chapter on interprofessional education as part of an ASSAf report on the future
of health professions education in South Africa,
Masters dissertation for the degree M. Phil in Health Sciences Education: Destigmatising medical
students’ perceptions towards psychiatric patients: The influence of a service-learning approach.
Result: A service-learning approach helps with the sustained destigmatisation of medical students
towards psychiatric patients.
Educational advisor on interprofessional education and collaborative practice.
Result: Integration of interprofessional collaborative practice competencies in the M.B., Ch. B
curriculum at Stellenbosch University; introduction of a new module, Doctor as Change Agent in
Communities (MB, ChB IV/V), and reforming various modules in the curriculum.
Also module chairman Doctor as Change Agent in Communities 511 (MBChB V), Teaching and Learning
for Primary Care (M Phil in Health Professions education) and curriculum advisor for Divisions of
Community Health, Rehabilitation and Family Medicine.
Established and facilitating an interprofessional institutional whole child development initiative.
Result: New curriculum for crèches and parents being introduced in various rural settings.
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PRIOR TO 2009
Successfully assisted major non-profit organisations (including UNICEF, CANSA, MSF, International
Dental Federation, LitNet, etc.) to utilise web-based technologies to effectively communicate, build
online communities and raise funds.
Result: More than $35 million raised by more than 27000 donors for 1,300 projects in 4 years
Assisted more than 300 organisations in developing web-sites, set-up databases and develop effective
communication strategies.
Result: GivenGain established as a global brand in online giving and back office automation
Organised the TIE (1999) World Congress and 29th ICOH international congress (2009).
Result: A record of more than 1200 scientific abstracts were submitted for the ICOH congress
Facilitated the formation and operation of various consensus-based partnerships in Egypt, Morocco,
Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa.
Results: 6 operational partnerships involving more than 500 organisations.
Training, placing and coordinating more than 50 healthcare professionals in under-served areas in
Africa, the Middle East, North Africa and Asia.
Result: Researched and developed programme helping health professionals cope in underserved areas.
Developed legislation, guidelines and training material for the compensation and management of work-
related upper limb disorders (WRULDs) in terms of the COID Act (1993)
Result: Streamlined procedures and compensation for occupational diseases related to WRULDs in
South Africa; Guest Editor of Occupation Health South Africa; Presentations at various national
congresses.
Co-ordinated the development of clinical guidelines and training for the occupational health division of
Life Healthcare.
Result: Training material and guidelines for hundreds of occupational health clinics in Southern Africa.
EXPERIENCE
Health professions educationist and lecturer with a special interest in competency -based
interprofessional education and collaborative practice, mHealth solutions enabling an
interprofessional bio-psycho-social-spiritual person-centred approach to transform health
workforce education and systems for health, social accountability in medical schools
enabling graduates as change agents for health in the 21st century.
Occupational medicine practitioner and lecturer with a special interest in work-related
upper limb disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, executive burnout and health ICT
systems.
Partnership facilitator , trainer and project manager, developing consensus -based
partnerships
Consultant to major local and international non-profit organisations in the planning,
development and implementation of mHealth solutions, websites, web 2.0 functionalities,
databases, communication and fund-raising strategies.
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MANAGER: INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION AND
COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE (IPECP) AT CENTRE FOR HEALTH
PROFESSIONS EDUCATION, FACULTY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH
SCIENCES, STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY.
JUNE 2010 – CURRENT
Developing and implementing IPECP strategy
Integrating the Faculty’s core interprofessional collaborative competencies into undergraduate
programmes
Introducing the framework of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
(ICF) as interprofessional, bio-psycho-social-spiritual approach to person- and community-centred
care
Help building the capacity of faculty to act as agents of change in modelling interprofessional
collaborative person-centred practice.
Module chairman for Doctor as Change Agent in Communities (M.B., Ch. B. IV/V), Health
Management (MBChB V), Health in Context (Interprofessional first year module), Teaching and
Learning for Primary Health Care (MPhil HealthProfEd)
Curriculum advisor for Divisions of Community Health and Family Medicine, as well as Centre for
Rehabilitation Studies.
Liaising with local communities and other stakeholders to train health professions students on
primary and community care level
Serve on various university committees: Senate Committee for Information Technology in Teaching
and Learning; Rehabilitation Reference Group; Advisory board of the Centre for Rehabilitation
Studies; Undergraduate Education Committee at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences;
Undergraduate Training Committee for the division of Community Health; Management team of the
Centre for Health Professions Education
TRAINING COORDINATOR (DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY,
STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY
DECEMBER 2008 –
DECEMBER 2010
Assist with the evaluation and redesigning of the undergraduate curriculum in the Department of
Psychiatry
Implement a service-learning module in the Middle Clinical Rotation by building reciprocal
partnerships with ten community organisations.
Developing e-learning materials for entire Psychiatry curriculum.
HEAD OF PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING
(GIVENGAIN, STELLENBOSCH)
SEPTEMBER 2003 –
NOVEMBER 2008
Part of development team: GivenGain platform (web-based platform for NGOs to automate back
office operations and raise funds online)
Assist major non-profit organisations to optimise their digital and dialogue marketing and fundraising
strategies, development of databases and design of websites,
Clients include: CANSA (Johannesburg); Water Neutral (London & Johannesburg); Stop Extinction
Coalition (Washington DC); WWF (Stellenbosch); International Commission on Occupational Health
(Lausanne); Reach for a Dream (Johannesburg); SASOM (Pretoria); Christian Medical Fellowship
(London & Cape Town); ICMDA (London); Avaaz (Washington DC); Durbanville Children’s Home (Cape
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Town); Dutch Reformed Church (Cape Town); Trade Law Association (Stellenbosch); Thuthuka
Educational Trust (London); Centre for Constitutional Rights (FW de Klerk Foundation) (Cape Town)
PARTNERSHIP FACILITATION 1995 – APRIL 2012
North African Partnership – developing Southern Africa division (1995 – 1997)
Middle East Consultation – representing South Africa (1998)
Ruvuma Partnership (Northern Mozambique) – facilitating the exploration, formation and initial
operation of the partnership (1993 – 1998)
Msinga Partnership – facilitator (2005 – 2008)
Makhathini Partnership (2006 – 2012)
Trainer of partnership facilitators (South African Partnership Forum) (1995 –2010)
Partnership consultant (GCOWE 1998, TIE 1999, LCWE Thailand (2004), DRC (2005-2012)
Co-founded South African Partnership Forum (1995)
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS: GLOBAL CAREERS 1991- JUNE 2012
Co-founder
Helped to develop process to equip Christian medical personnel to live integrated lives in under-
served communities.
Trained, placed and managed more than 50 Christian healthcare professionals in under-served areas
in Africa, the Middle East, North Africa and Asia.
MEDICAL EXPERIENCE
INTERNSHIP, GEORGE HOSPITAL 1992
Surgery
Orthopaedics
Urology (with "minor" surgical disciplines)
Anaesthetics
Obstetrics and Gynaecology (with Neonatology)
Internal Medicine (with General Paediatrics and Psychiatry).
MEDICAL OFFICER: DEPT OF PAEDIATRICS, TYGERBERG JAN – JUN 1993 & 2000
Neonatology
Neurology
Pulmonology
General Paediatric Outpatients
PART-TIME PRIVATE PRACTISE JUL 1993 - JUN 2008
Executive committee member (IT) for 26th ICOH world congress (2007-2009)
Occupational Medicine Practitioner: Denel Land Systems (Western Cape) (Part-time) (2005-2008)
Chairperson of the Cape Chapter of the South African Society of Occupational Medicine (SASOM) and
member of national executive committee (2003 – 2009).
Locum for the AIDS, Tuberculosis and STD clinics of the Cape Town City council (2000)
Occupational Medicine Practitioner: Rainbow Chicken (part-time) (1993-1998)
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General Practitioner: Canada (1994)
Primary Health Care research at Vila Ulónguè (Mozambique), Nkhoma (Malawi) and Nosébe
(Madagascar), with the aim to establish interprofessional health care centres. (July 1993)
OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE PRACTITIONER: LIFE HEALTHCARE 2001 - 2005
Managing doctors for 40 occupational health clinic in Western Cape
Developed legislation, guidelines and training material for the compensation and management of
work-related upper limb disorders (WRULDs) in terms of the COID Act (1993) (for the Compensation
Commissioner)
Guest Editor of Occupation Health South Africa (1995, Volume 11(4), July / August)
Co-ordinated the development of clinical guidelines and training for the occupational health division
of Life Healthcare
Implemented policies and guidelines to manage WRULDs, PTST and executive burnout
EDUCATION / TRAINING
M. Phil. (Health Sciences education) CUM LAUDE (Stell) 2012
Short Course: Service-learning and Community Interaction (Stell)
(24 credits; Level 9)
2009
Diploma in Occupational Medicine (Stell) 1997
M.B., Ch. B (Stell) 1991
Neonatal Resuscitation (American Heart Association & American Academy of
Paediatrics)
March 2000
Partnership Facilitators Course (Interdev, Cyprus) Nov 1995
Adult Trainers Course (Interdev) May 1999
Matriculation: Paul Roos Gymnasium, Stellenbosch 1985
RESEARCH, PUBLICATIONS, CONGRESSES
Publications in peer-reviewed journals
Book chapters
Guest editor of national accredited medical journal
Presentations at national medical congresses
Presentations at international medical congresses
Key note address at international conferences
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REFERENCES
DR ANTOINETTE SMIT-TOLKEN ACTING SENIOR DIRECTOR: DIVISION FOR SOCIAL
IMPACT, STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY
1017 Luckhoff School Building, Banghoek Avenue,
Stellenbosch, 7600, South Africa
Telephone: +27 21 808 3798
E-mail: [email protected]
PROF BEN VAN HEERDEN DIRECTOR: MB, CH B UNIT, STELLENBOSCH
UNIVERSITY
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Tygerberg, 7505
Telephone: +27 21 938 9595
E-mail: [email protected]
PROF SUSAN VAN SCHALKWYK DIRECTOR: CENTRE FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONS
EDUCATION, STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Tygerberg, 7505
Telephone: +27 21 938 9054
E-mail: [email protected]
DR SYDNEY CARTSENS SENIOR LECTURE AND FIRST SPECIALIST: DIVISION OF
COMMUNITY HEALTH
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Tygerberg, 7505
Telephone: +27 21 938 9206
E-mail: [email protected]
PROF OLAF KRAUS DE CAMARGO ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR: CANCHILD CENTRE FOR
CHILDHOOD DISABILITY RESEARCH, MCMASTER
UNIVERSITY
Ron Joyce Children's Health Centre, 325 Wellington St N,
Hamilton, ON, L8N 3Z5, Canada
Telephone: +1-905-521-2100 Ext. 74275
E-mail: [email protected]
DR HEIDI ANTTILA SENIOR RESEARCHER: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR
HEALTH AND WELFARE (THL), FINLAND
Welfare Department: Ageing, Disability and Functioning Unit,
PO Box 30, Helsinki, Finland, FIN-00271
Telephone: +358 29 524 768
Email: [email protected]
MRS CATHERINE SYKES
PROFESSIONAL POLICY CONSULTANT: WORLD
CONFEDERATION FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY (WCPT)
Victoria Charity Centre, 11 Belgrave Road, London,
SW1V 1RB, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 20 7931 6465
Email: [email protected]
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MR DIRK WAGENER BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER: STONE THREE
VENTURE TECHNOLOGY
20 Gardner Williams Avenue, Paardevlei, Somerset West,
7130, South Africa
Telephone: +27 21 851 3123
Email: [email protected]
MR JOHANNES VAN EEDEN CEO: GIVENGAIN FOUNDATION
Chemin des Rapes, Chalet la Renarde, 1884 Villars-sur-Ollon,
Switzerland
Telephone: +41 79 586 6839
Email: [email protected]
OTHER INFORMATION
Belbin team work profile: Plant, Shaper
Myers Briggs Personality Type: INTP
Marital Status: Married, 2 children
Registered with HPCSA # MP 0387738
Drivers Licence Code A & EB: # 6046000292HS
RSA ID: 670526 5105 088
South African Passport: M00091127 (Expiry date: 27 June 2023
Language proficiency: Afrikaans and English
CONTACT DETAILS
Dr Stefanus Snyman
8 Traminer Street
Die Wingerd
Somerset West
South Africa
7130
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Tel (h): 021 855 2068
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UPDATED: 24 April 2016