Rate My Professor Mershen Pillay

Professor Mershen Pillay served as Associate Professor in the School of Health Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is an audiologist and speech-language therapist whose academic qualifications include a doctorate in education focused on transforming the practitioner-patient relationship. Pillay previously worked at the former University of Durban-Westville from 1993 to 2003 and at Stellenbosch University from late 2012 to early 2014 before returning to UKZN.

His research interests include ototoxicity related to chemical exposures in the workplace and dysphagia or swallowing disorders in adults and children. Pillay has worked as a clinical practitioner in England, the United Arab Emirates and South Africa. He has held the position of Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal of Communication Disorders and has presented and published work across Africa and in Asia, Europe, North America and the Caribbean. Pillay is passionate about repositioning the ways in which healthcare professionals work with people who have disabilities and has held honorary positions at the University of Cape Town as a Research Associate and at Manchester Metropolitan University as a Visiting Research Scholar.