Dr Maurine Rofhiwa Musie is an advanced midwifery specialist, midwifery lecturer, and clinical coordinator programme manager at the University of Pretoria. She was recognised as the youngest Ph.D. recipient in the Nursing Department from the University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa, and by the National Research Foundation (NRF). She obtained a master’s degree in advanced midwifery and neonatal sciences from the same university in 2018 and was the first African student awarded Cum Lauda in a bachelor's degree in nursing sciences in 2015. Apart from teaching undergraduate midwifery students, she has supervised six master's students to completion. She has published widely in local and international accredited journals and has also contributed a chapter in a recently published book titled Working with Indigenous Knowledge. Dr Musie has been a role model in the profession, a recipient of several awards of excellence, and a profiled young woman scientist (University of Pretoria, 2023). She has currently been nominated for the Woman in Nursing Education and Woman of Stature awards in South Africa (WOSA), 2024. She was also a recipient of the Overall winner in the Young Researcher category: Emergent Research Excellence Award at the University of Pretoria in 2021-2023. She represents South Africa at the Nursing Now Global Challenge of the Burnett Trust of Nursing and was appointed to the Board of Directors and is secretary of Sigma Theta Tau International, Chi-Xi chapter.