I grew up in a small town on the Highveld, before going to Pretoria for my undergraduate training, receiving my MBChB in 2008.  My internship and community service were done in Kimberley Provincial Hospital. I then stayed on after completion of these years for further experience in general surgery as I felt truly passionate about this field. I moved to Johannesburg in 2013 to start my training as a specialist surgeon, joining the University of the Witwatersrand Department of Surgery. I was accepted as a Fellow of the College of Surgeons of South Africa in May 2018 and received my Masters of Medicine degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2019.

After qualifying as a specialist, I joined the Department of Surgery at Helen Joseph Hospital and spent a year as the head of a unit with an interest in endocrine surgery, laparoscopic surgery and surgical oncology, including soft tissue tumours and breast surgery. As a consultant surgeon at the hospital, I was also responsible for undergraduate training at the University of Witwatersrand, teaching of intern and community service medical officers and was involved with the training of surgical registrars.

I then joined Life Fourways as a full-time Specialist General Surgeon from September of 2019 and look forward to the challenges involved with working in the private sector.

I still maintain an interest in surgical oncology and endocrine surgery and attend overseas and local conferences on the topic. I firmly believe that modern surgery is a rapidly progressing field and that one needs to remain dedicated to continual learning and review of literature and evidence to offer the highest level of care to one's patients.