AfSBT Board of Directors

Dr. Faten Moftah, AfSBT President

Dr. Moftah was elected as AfSBT President during the Annual General Meeting in Dakar in September 2022 and will assume the office of AfSBT President on the next General Assembly of the society.  She is currently the President of Egyptian Society of Blood Services (ESBS) and the President of Arab Transfusion Medicine Forum (ATMF).

Prof. Dr. Saliou Diop, AfSBT
President-Elect

Prof. Diop is a Professor of Clinical Hematology and blood transfusion, Head of the Hematology Department of the Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Odontology of Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal. Prof. Saliou Diop is also the Director of the National Blood Transfusion Center of Senegal and currently President of the Senegalese Society of Hematology and Blood Transfusion.

Prof. Dr. Dora Mbanya
former AfSBT President

Prof. Mbanya is a Professor of Haematology at the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaoundé, and Consultant Physician and Chief of Service of the Haematology and Transfusion Service of the University Teaching Hospital in Yaoundé. She is also the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Bamenda

Mr. Dumisani Ndebele is based in South Africa, he is an Independent Director of the AfSBT Board. He also assumes chairmanship for the AfSBT-HRR Committee

Dr Andy Ngoy Numbi is from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is currently working as an Independent Consultant in Clinical Laboratory Sciences and Blood Transfusion and is the Vice President of the AfSBT- ECCAS Region

Mr. Edmund Petersen is a registered Chartered Accountant based in South Africa. He is AfSBT Chief Financial Officer and an Executive Director of the AfSBT Board.

Dr. Mohammed Farouk is an Executive Director of the Board. He is a medical doctor with dual post-graduate degrees in Transfusion Medicine and Healthcare Business Administration.

Mrs Natasha Nsamala is a registered Chartered Accountant by profession and Chief Executive Officer, Malawi Blood Transfusion Service. She is an Independent Director of the AfSBT Board.

Dr Solomuzi Ngcobo is a Medical Doctor with extensive experience in Public Health with a Master’s degree in Public Health and Business Administration, Post Graduate Diplomas in Blood Transfusion, HIV/AIDS Management and Health Economics.  He is the Vice President of the AfSBT-SADC Region.

Dr Phillip Olatunji is a Professor / Consultant Haematologist in the Department of Haematology & Blood Transfusion, Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Ogun State, Nigeria and is Vice President of the AfSBT- ECOWAS Region.

Dr Hmida Slama is the Director General of the National Blood Transfusion Service of Tunisia and is the Vice President of the AfSBT – Maghreb region.