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Shane Dorfman
(born February 26 1975 Johannesburg, South Africa) Dr. Shane Dorfman graduated cum laude from Wits Medical School in 1998. He later graduated with an MBA cum laude from Wits Business School in 2004, where he received a distinction for his research report on “Public Private Partnerships in the Healthcare sector”. Shane also recently completed the Global Health Leadership Programme through the University of California, Berkeley and Barcelona Graduate School of Economics.

Shane is an 8-time World karate champion, former protea team captain, holds a 6th Dan (degree) black belt and is an international master instructor. He is also a part-time lecturer at Wits Business School and consults to an array of local and multinational corporates in his specialist area of Performance Opitmisation and Leadership Fitness & Wellness where he amalgamates his knowledge bases of health and wellness, martial arts and cutting-edge business theory. Shane also has a number of other corporate products incuding self-defence and team building. His client base includes Investec Bank, Discovery Health, G4S, Standard Bank, Royal Bafokeng Holdings, Brandunion, Oracle, Growthpoint, Network BBDO, Hewlett Packard, and Deneys Reitz attorneys.

On the clinical front, Dr. Dorfman has a special interest in health and wellness, is trained and accredited in medical aesthetics (including Botox and dermal fillers) and is also involved in clinical research around venous-thromboembolic disease as part of Wits Medical School’s department of clinical haematology.

Shane is also widely active on the business and management side of healthcare where he has held a number of senior management and executive positions. After completing his MBA he was appointed Chief Operating Officer of Linkwood Clinic. During his first year, revenues at Linkwood clinic improved over 100%. In 2005, Shane was offered positions both at McKinsey and Company (as a management consultant) and on RMB’s elite ‘Class of’ program but decided to join Netcare Ltd where responsibilities included managing and contributing towards strategic projects on behalf of group management services. He was then was asked to join the newly created Health Policy Unit, responsible for overseeing and aligning Netcare’s critical strategic projects as well as liaising with government on and determining Netcare’s health policy.

He was then head hunted and appointed CEO of Regiment’s Healthcare (Pty) Ltd (a subsidiary of Regiments Capital) which is a black-owned company focusing on investments as well as management consulting, infrastructure, capital raising and public private partnership services in the healthcare sector. Shane currently acts as a consultant on a number of broad healthcare projects covering inter alia strategy, private equity and public private partnerships, where clients have included Gauteng Department of Health, City of Johannesburg, City of Tshwane, Novartis, the Johannesburg Development Agency, Healthbridge, Benguela Health and HealthInsite.