Prof Nasreen Mahomed

Prof Nasreen Mahomed is a Specialist Radiologist, Associate Professor of Radiology and the Academic Head of Radiology at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. She holds 4 degrees MBBCH (Wits), FC Rad (SA), MMED (Wits), PhD (Wits). In 2013, she was awarded the prestigious Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Derek Harwood Nash international fellowship awarded to 3 global recipients annually, where she did paediatric Neuroradiology and Chest at Boston Childrens, Harvard University. She has been awarded a number of national and international awards most recently the South Health Excellence Awards 2025, Excellence in Leadership winner and Certificate of Recognition Rahima Moosa Mother and Child hospital Clinical service delivery 2025.

Prof N Mahomed is highly skilled in Paediatric radiology, has 76 peer-reviewed publications and supervised 16 masters students to completion. She has been an invited speaker at many international medical conferences, most recently the European Society of Paediatric Radiology ESPR in Romania June 2025, the Asianic Society of Paediatric Radiology AOSPR in Qatar, October 2025 invited speaker on AI in Peadiatric Radiology in the opening plenary, and the AI in Paedatric Radiology summit, ML Africa AI in Health care summit 2025 and South African Clinician Scientist Society Conference 2025, Harnessing a Culture of Generating New Knowledge.

Prof N Mahomed successfully chaired the inaugural Wits Radiology Breast Imaging Symposium 17 October 2025. The speakers and moderators were from different universities and both private and public sector in South Africa. As Academic Head of Wits Radiology Nasreen believes private public partnership is key to sustaining academic medicine in South Africa.

She also chaired the Wits School of Clinical Medicine Comprehensive Women’s Health 18 October 2025, supported by various individual South African Muslims women’s forums Salaam media this event was attended by 200 in person delegates, supported by Salaam media live streamed by over 500 delegates. Prof N Mahomed received an overwhelming positive response and a request for an event in 2026.

Prof Nasreen Mahomed hold executive positions on the WHO childhood pneumonia committee, World Federation of Paediatric Imaging as the TB Chair, College of Medicine South Africa Council, the Radiological Society of South Africa (RSSA) and is the immediate past president of the South African Society of Paediatric Radiology (SASPI).

Prof N Mahomed other awards include the Carnegie Corporation USA fellowship, the SAMRC research grant, the Robert Austrian International Fellowship, Best Oral presentation Wits Faculty of Health Sciences for Doctoral Research, the Robert Austrian fellowship, the Gauteng Health Excellence Awards for service delivery and the ASNR Ann Osborn Visting Professorship 2024.

Her current and research is innovative and is based on artificial intelligence in medicine Radiology and the impact it has on lower income countries that donnot have sufficient specialist’s radiologists and will impact medical care of patients. She is passionate about radiology in the public service. Nasreen is also a philanthropist and is actively involved in several medical outreach programs including the South African National Woman’s Forum (SANWF), and has spoken at many forums. She hopes her efforts have a global impact on health.