Dr Mbawe Zulu, BVM, MScHA, is a member of the Anatomical Society of Southern Africa. He has qualifications and experience in human anatomy and comparative medicine. He has over ten years of experience and excellence in medical education. His career started at the University of Zambia, shortly after Veterinary School, when he joined as a laboratory demonstrator and tutor in the Biological Sciences and the Chemistry Departments of the School of Natural Sciences. After that stint, he was taken in as a Joint Staff Development Fellow (SDF) in Anatomy at the Lusaka Apex Medical University (LAMU) and the University of Zambia School of Medicine Anatomy Department. After successfully completing the SDF/MScHA programme under the tutelage of the late Professor Krikor Erzingatsian, FRCSI, hon.FRCSI, hon.FCS (ECSA), he was appointed Lecturer and founding Head of the Department of Anatomy at LAMU where he taught and demonstrated human anatomy to over 3000 undergraduate learners, and mentored over 20 Staff Development Fellows or Trainee Lecturers under his charge as the MBChB Programme Coordinator. He was a University Senate member the whole four years he served as MBChB Programme Coordinator. He attended several neuroscience and medical education courses and workshops both locally and internationally. No wonder, soon after joining Copperbelt University Michael Chilufya Sata School of Medicine, he included facilitating learning for BScBioMed Teaching Methodologies course as a pioneering lecturer and course coordinator, and helped facilitate holding of the the first ever International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) local school entitled ‘Building Capacity in Neurobehavioral Sciences in Zambia.’ He is mentoring over ten MBChB research projects, and he is a Principal Investigator for the Medical Education & Developmental Anatomy Research Group (ME&DARG). Presently, Dr Zulu is the Unit Head of Anatomy and a Doctor of Science (Neuroscience and Medical Education) candidate.
Clinical & comparative anatomy, biological anthropology, neuroscience, laboratory animal science/medicine and medical education