Helen & Morris Mauerberger Professor and Chair, Division of Neurosurgery
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
Professor Graham Fieggen MSc MD FCS(SA) IFAANS is the Helen and Morris Mauerberger Chair and Head of the Division of Neurosurgery at the University of Cape Town. He studied medicine at UCT where mentorship by Warwick Peacock stimulated an interest in neurosurgery, leading to an elective at UCLA in 1986. He completed an MSc(Neuroscience) in London and spent 2 years in rural general practice in Canada before returning to Cape Town to specialise, developing a novel stereotactic device for which he received an MD.
Graham was mentored in paediatric neurosurgery by Jonathan Peter and ran the service at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital for 10 years before being appointed as Chair of Neurosurgery at UCT in 2008. He leads an oustanding team of 9 consultant neurosurgeons with 17 trainees from 10 African countries, and serves as director of the interdisciplinary Neuroscience Institute as well as head of the Department of Surgery.
His clinical and research interests span paediatric and functional neurosurgery and global surgery, and he has served organised neurosurgery as president of the Continental Association of African Neurosurgical Societies (2014-2016), the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (2018), the Society of Neurosurgeons of South Africa (2018-2021) and president of the 18th World Congress of Neurosurgery to be held in Cape Town in 2023. Graham and Karen, a paediatrician and medical geneticist, are proud parents of Joshua and Liam, both UCT alumni.
Global Issues with Pediatric Neurosurgery
Friday, April 21, 2023
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Friday, April 21, 2023
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