About the Southern African Endourology Society

The inaugural meeting of the Southern African Endourology Society was held at the Urological Association of South Africa congress in the Drakensburg in August 2008. The meeting was addressed by Prof Arthur Smith (founder of the world Endourological Society) and Dr Jaime Landman, one of the foremost minimally invasive urological surgeons in the world. Southern African and International delegates attended the launch, which signified a new commitment in the region to minimally invasive surgery in Urology. This society represents all African countries, and has members from South Africa, Namibia, Libya, Kenya and Nigeria. It is affiliated to the world Endourology Society, with whom it shares a journal, the Journal of Endourology.

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Current President of the Southern African Endourology Society

Dr Marius Conradie is one of the founding members of and serves as the current president of the Southern African Endourology Society. He is the Principal Specialist and Head of Department of the Department of Urology at Greys Hospital in Pietermaritzburg. Dr Conradie has established an endourology training centre at Greys Hospital, and has dedicated most of his time in a proffesional capacity to promoting and developing specifically laparoscopic urology in South Africa and other countries in Africa.

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