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Chair: Division of Urology
Tygerberg Academic Hospital Stellenbosch University Cape Town
Prof Andre van der Merwe is an Associate Professor of Urology at Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Academic Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa. He is Head of the Division of Urology. This is one of the last complete urology Units worldwide where registrars are trained in paediatric urology, Urogynaecology and renal transplantation in addition to standard urology disciplines such as uro-oncology and endo-urology. He obtained his primary medical degree from Stellenbosch University in 1993. He worked and studied in the lovely flower town of Taunton, the United Kingdom, to obtain the MRCS(London) and MRCS(Edinburgh) in 1999. He qualified as a Urologist in 2003 with the Fellowship of the College of Urologists of South Africa, FC(Urol)SA. He obtained his MMed Urology degree completing a research project on “Gunshot wounds to the male external genitalia” in 2008. He completed a master’s degree in Clinical Epidemiology in 2014 (MScClinEpi) at Stellenbosch University. His long term PhD research (2011) was on penile allotransplantation in humans; this he completed in 2020. He heads a dynamic unit of multitalented urologists, making a significant and diverse impact on research and patient care in his region and beyond. His special interests are PCNL, reconstructive urology and renal transplantation. He is known for leading the team that performed the world’s first and third penis allotransplantation. He published more than 45 journal articles, editor of one book and several book chapters. His H-index is 12.
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Saturday, May 14, 2022
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Sunday, May 15, 2022
9:05 AM – 9:25 AM