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An extensive surgical outreach programme is in existence
primarily to improve the surgical care of children at
secondary and primary health care levels. The division is
regarded as a national centre for minimally invasive surgery,
surgical skills training, organ transplantation, specialized
hepatobiliary surgery, neurosurgery, cardiothoracic surgery,
oncology and burn care in children and for the separation
of conjoined twins.
Research is being conducted in the department into a
wide variety of aspects of paediatric surgical practice
including gastrointestinal surgery, minimal invasive surgery,
trauma care and prevention, liver and renal transplantation,
renovascular hypertension, burn therapy, pain assessment
and management, conjoined twins and common diseases
of Africa including tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. Financial
support is received from the MRC, Pharmaceutical
companies, private donations and from the Lombardi
Government in Italy.
Unit Statistics
Permanent and long-term contract staff
Professor
2
Emeritus Professor
3
Adjunct Professor
1
Associate Professor
1
Senior Lecturers
1
Career Paediatric Surgical Registrars
3
African Fellowship Training Programme
1
Karl Storz Fellowship Programme
1
Research Technologists / Social Worker
2
Administrative staff
2
Total
17
Students
Doctoral
1
Master’s
3
Undergraduate
168
Total
172
Research Fields and Staff
Professor A.J.W. Millar
Biliary atresia, choledochal cysts, liver transplantation,
renovascular hypertension, non-transplant surgery for
short bowel syndrome, oesophageal replacement with
colon, hepatoblastoma, bilateral Wilms’ tumour, surgical
management of intestinal failure
Emeritus Professor H. Röde
Burn and nutrition research; short bowel syndrome; HIV/
AIDS; oncology and trauma.
Emeritus Professor M.R.Q. Davies
General paediatric surgical conditions.
Adjunct Professor R.A. Brown
Gastrointestinal surgery; surgical endoscopy; constipation
and gastro-intestinal polyposis.
Professor A.B. van As
Traumatology; child accident prevention; vascular injuries;
gastro-intestinal diseases.
Associate Professor A. Numanoglu
Minimal invasive surgery; transplantation; HIV/AIDS and
diseases of the gastro-intestinal tract, teaching with
technology, web based outreach, neonatal surgery
S. Cox
The child sexual assault ‘epidemic’, Neonatal burns,
surgical aspects of necrotising enterocolitis and other
childhood general surgical conditions.
Dr A. Alexander
HIV/AIDS and surgical implications, surgical curriculum
development. surgical research, urology, minimally invasive
surgery.
Dr R. Albertyn
Paediatric pain; rehabilitation and HIV/AIDS; web-based
education
J. Raad
Manometry and gastro-enterology.
Director: ChildSafe (post vacant)
Child accident prevention.
Contact Details
Postal Address: Division of Paediatric Surgery, School of
Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town,
Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Rondebosch,
7700
Tel: +27 21 658 5012
Fax: +27 21 685 6632
Web: http://www.surgicalskills.co.za; http://www.scah.uct.
ac.za/clinicalservices/surgery.html
UCT General enquiries: +27 21 650 9111
UCT web: http://www.uct.ac.za