MEET THE TEAM
OUR DOCTORS
Rehabilitation and holistic care can never be achieved within silos. Dr. Uvi’s vision is to bring many opinions into a single consult without having the patient drive from hospital to hospital.
Specialist paediatrician
Dr Uvi Naidoo
- Undergraduate at University of KZN in 2007, followed by ill-health to DR-TB.
- Following cure, spent fruitful global fellowships in infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins University, New Jersey Medical School before returning to South Africa in 2016 to be based at Red Cross Childrens Hospital in Cape Town.
- Since 2018, Uvi has been collaborating and working between Cape Town and Austria as a specialist paediatrician, international patient advocate and laboratory scientist
- His passion remains on host-directed therapies and diagnostics academically. However, he has never lost focus of the emotional response a child or patient feels toward ill-health
Family physician
Dr Darren Levin
- This niche clinic quite aptly has aligned itself within the Camps Bay Medical Practice surrounds (Victoria Road, Camps Bay) in collaboration with Dr Darren Levin, a well-established local Family Physician catering to the Camps Bay/Atlantic Seaboard communities predominantly
- Darren’s thorough and diligent application of bedside care is perfectly placed to help manage adults struggling long covid
OUR TEAM
Occupational therapist
Bhavika Jairam
- Teenagers and adults struggling with school post-lockdown or plagued by severe fatigue and anxiety
- Pacing adults back to functional work
- Bhavika is sometimes the push we all need to listening to our bodies and mind. She actively engages mindfulness and active scientific approaches
Clinical psychologist
Dominique Manas
Whilst heavily engaged with clinical work and her new book, “Switch your light on,” she offers insightful opinion in optimising our patients always.
Yoga teacher/guru
Justine Barnes
- Collaborating with Dr Uvi: a novel approach for teenagers named medical meditation.
- In person consultation with Dr Uvi at her AWAKE studio in Seapoint, Cape Town, offered.
- After spending much time in India with various Yoga disciplines, Justine has evolved into a truly amazing light in all her patients lives. She combines breath work, yoga and sound healing into scientific approaches. She provides spiritual reset we all need at times.
Physiotherapist and Long Covid expert
Ada Carter
- Ada is actively co-managing Dr Uvi to get back to marathon training and competitive tennis.
- Whilst highly intellectual and scientific, her kind and empathetic personality is most suited to the care of families and children at the Long Covid Centre
Physical trainer
Christilee Jansen
- Long Covid sport specific physical trainer for our athletic patients trying to get back to social and competitive level sport.
- In-person consultations.