Staff Profiles

1. Fellowship of the College of Paediatricians of South Africa (FC PAED SA )

2. Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)

A Malawian born and bred. 

Qualified as a medical doctor at University of Malawi,  College of Medicine Blantyre City campus. 

Qualified as a general paediatrician at the University of Cape Town, South Africa (with rotations in Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, Grooteschur Hospital and Mowbray Maternity Hospital). 

Currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Botswana, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Health, and General Paediatrician in Princess Marina Hospital, Gaborone, Botswana. 

Loves God, chess, weekly half-marathons and the guitar. 

SOM 604. Paediatrics and Adolescent Health. MBBS Year 5 class.

SOM 407. Paediatrics and Adolescent Health MBBS Year 3 class

SOM 303. Pregnancy, Birth and Child Health. MBBS Year 2 class. 

MMed. Paediatrics and Adolescent Health. Years 1-4

All fields and aspects of Paediatrics and Adolescent Health. , from neonates to adolescents. 

GME 602 & 701 Introduction to Clinical Research- zero draft supervision.

Mmed. Paediatrics and Adolescent Health. Supervision of research proposals and dissertations. 

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1. Banda FM, Powis KM, Mokoka AB, Mmapetla M, Westmoreland KD, David T, et al. Hearing Impairment Among Children Referred to a Public Audiology Clinic in Gaborone, Botswana. Global Pediatric Health. 2018; 5:2333794X18770079.

2. Francis Msume Banda, Jeremy S. Slone, Alan Anderson, et al. Cryptogenic Cirrhosis and Hepatopulmonary Syndrome in a Boy with Hepatic Hemangioma in Botswana: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. Case Reports in Pediatrics. Vol. 2017. doi:10.1155/2017/7940365

3. Banda FM, Mutapanduwa MG, Goutam C, Steenhoff A, Joel D. An unusual surgical cause of pyloric stenosis in an 8-month-old infant. Afr J Paediatr Surg. 2017 Oct-Dec; 14(4):79-82. doi:10.4103/ajps.AJPS_118_16.