Dr. Alisha Wade is a Clinician Scientist/Senior Researcher at the MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit at the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand and an endocrinologist at the Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre, both in Johannesburg South Africa. She graduated from the University of the West Indies in 2000 with a MBBS (Honours) degree and attended the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Clinical Medicine. She then completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and a fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the University of Pennsylvania in 2010. She currently holds an Emerging Global Leader (K43) career development award by the Fogarty International Centre of the National Institutes of Health to investigate endocrine and metabolic disorders in rural South Africa.
