Resume
Qualifications and Interests
Qualifications
Limb Reconstruction Fellowship,(SAOA endorsed), December 2018.
FC Orth (CMSA) | May 2018
MMed Orth ( Stell.) | December 2018
MBChB | December 2016
Interests
Deformity Correction
Limb Reconstruction
Additive Manufacturing
Biomedical Engineering
General
Nationality: South African
Date of Birth: 27 July 1982
I.D Number: 8207275060088
Health Professions Council Number: MP 0678252
Current Professional Aims:
To establish myself as a clinician-scientist, facilitating inter-disciplinary research collaborations with my clinical work as a generator of research questions.
In the last 3 years I have focused on:
- Founding an Orthopaedic 3D printing laboratory and researching the effect on Orthopaedic practice. (Focus of PhD research)
- Starting a career as an academic, taking on teaching, research supervision and administrative duties in Div of Clinical Anatomy.
- Expanding my clinical proficiencies in deformity correction surgery and the treatment of chronic osteomyelitis by working at the Limb Reconstruction unit at Tygerberg Hospital.
- Developing young medical professionals and academics through engaging teaching and research supervision, both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Experience
2019 – Present
Part Time (1/8) Clinical Trainer (Grade 10.2)
Part-time (1/8) Clinical Trainer (Grade 10.2), Division of Orthopaedic surgery, SU.
Tygerberg Hospital
Functioning as sessional consultant in the Tumour, Sepsis and Recon Unit and also supporting the Limb Lengthening and Deformity Correction Surgery fellowship that is accommodated at our unit.
Part Time (3/8) Lecturer (Grade 8) and Researcher
Division of Clinical Anatomy, SU.
Teaching, research supervision, module development and research outputs.
OrthoTrauma: Part-time associated group practice, after-hours Orthopaedic emergencies only.
Co-founding partner of a part-time associated group practice, consisting of a group of newly
qualified Orthopaedic surgeons that are invited by established Orthopaedic surgeons to cover after hours Orthopaedic emergency service at their hospitals. Operates at several hospitals in the Northern Suburbs of Cape town and up the West Coast.
July 2018 – December 2018
Orthopaedic Surgeon, Fellowship Training Limb Lengthening and Deformity Correction Surgery
TSAOA endorsed Fellowship position
Tumour, Sepsis and Recon unit
Tygerberg Hospital
February 2013 to June 2018
MMed Orthopaedic Surgery, Registrar,
Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg Hospital, Paarl Hospital & 2 Military Hospital
April 2011 to January 2013
Medical Officer Grade 1, Orthopaedics
George Provincial Hospital
January 2010 to March 2011
Medical Officer Grade 1,
General Surgery, Burns Unit, Surgical ICU
Ngwelezane Hospital
January 2009 to December 2009
Community Service
Orthopaedics ( 8 Months)
General Surgery (4 Months)
Ngwelezane Hospital
January 2007 to December 2008
Internship
Paediatric, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Internal Medicine, Family Medicine. (4 month rotations)
Gen. Surgery, Emergency Med, Anesthetics, Orthopaedics. (2 month rotations)
Ngwelezane Hospital
References
Prof Jaques Du Toit
Head of Division
Orthopaedic Surgery
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Stellenbosch University
Prof Karin Baatjes
Vice Dean
Teaching and Learning
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Stellenbosch University
Prof Nando Ferreira
Head of Clinical Unit
Orthopaedic Surgery
Tumour, Sepsis and Recon Unit
Stellenbosch University
Dr Johan van Der Merwe
Senior Lecturer
Department of Engineering, M&M
Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBE)
Stellenbosch University