Associate Professor Peter Hodkinson is a full time academic in the Division of Emergency Medicine at the University of Cape Town. He has spent over a decade in academia, convening a masters program (MPhil in EM) offering one of the only distance, online masters in EM on the continent with a spread of graduates around South Africa and Africa, many now in leadership positions in the speciality. His interests are diverse, but primarily around emergency referral pathways and access, which includes prehospital care and high quality in hospital emergency care.
As of 2023, Prof Hodkinson is also the Editor-in-Chief of the African Journal of Emergency Medicine, and leads a capable team from around the continent in encouraging and disseminating emergency care research through this upcoming journal which is now internationally recognized with increasing impact metrics.
