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Nadine is a female colorectal surgeon currently working at Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre (WDGMC). Nadine is a graduate of the University of Witwatersrand, where she completed her undergraduate and general surgical training, as well as a sub-specialty fellowship in GIT surgery with a special interest in colorectal surgery. Prestigious fellowships include three months at Academisch Medisch Centrum in the Netherlands and two weeks at the Royal Devon & Exeter NHS in the United Kingdom.
Nadine performs a wide range of colorectal surgeries ranging from cancer, pelvic floor, faecal incontinence, proctology and endoscopy. She has a special interest in laparoscopic surgery and is actively involved in setting up protocols and systems for the unit and has been instrumental in creating an online data management system to assist with future research.
Nadine has been in private practice at Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre since 2016. She is actively involved in the colorectal societies of South Africa and has presented on numerous occasions at medical societies such as ASSA, SAGES, SASES and South African Colorectal Training weekends. She also serves on the Surgicom Board.
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Nadine has been in private practice at Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre since 2016. She is actively involved in the colorectal societies of South Africa and has presented on numerous occasions at medical societies such as ASSA, SAGES, SASES and South African Colorectal Training weekends. She also serves on the Surgicom Board.
Nadine is a wife to Warren and mother to two teenagers, Oliver and Zack. In her spare time, Nadine loves spending time with family, reading, walking and enjoying well earned downtime and social time with her friends.
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South African Colorectal Training weekends
Nadine graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2000. She was fortunate to travel abroad for her internship where she spent a year in Stoke on Trent in the United Kingdom and returned to Johannesburg to complete her community service in 2002 and 2003 at Natalspruit Hospital in Alberton in the south of Johannesburg.
Nadine took a small break from ‘normal’ medical duties after she was offered a position as a Police Surgeon in Exeter in the United Kingdom. Here she worked for the Devon and Cornwall police constabulary in 2004 and 2005 to provide medical care and to undertake examinations of persons detained in police custody and examine some of the victims of crime, in particular sexual crime. During this time she completed her FRCS Part 1 Surgical examination.
The call of South Africa once again was strong and Nadine returned to Johannesburg to commence her surgical registrar training. She wrote the three South African surgical exams as well as having two children. She passed her final exam in 2012 and qualified as a General Surgeon.
Nadine was then employed as a junior surgical consultant at the Charlotte Maxeke Academic hospital and started her 2 year sub speciality fellowship in colorectal surgery. She graduated in 2014 and spent the next two years working in the state and private sector. Due to the demands of the job and young children, she elected to leave the state sector to pursue full time private practice.
Born in Gauteng and raised in Port Elizabeth, Nadine began her medical journey as a WITS student in 1996 and has remained in Johannesburg for the better part of the journey. She married her husband Warren in 2003 and has two teenage boys, Oliver and Zack.
Balancing the role as a surgeon, patient care, being a mom and wife takes some doing but Nadine manages to give the best she can all around whether it’s for the family or for her patients.
