About Us
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.FOUNDING PRESIDENT OF THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN ENDOUROLOGY SOCIETY
Dr MC. Conradie has been in private practice since November 2013 at Netcare Waterfall City Hospital. Prior to this, Dr Conradie has been the Head of the Urology Department at the Pietermaritzburg Metropolitan Hospital Complex since 2006. After obtaining a degree as a urologist at the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine in South Africa, further training in endourology was done at the Washington University in St. Louis, USA and also completed a Robotic Surgery Fellowship at Irvine University California in the USA. The main focus of Dr Conradie’s professional and academic career is laparoscopic urology where a large role was followed in the development and training of laparoscopic urological surgery in South Africa and also developed numerous innovative laparoscopic techniques in laparoscopic urological surgery. Dr Conradie has received a number of national and international awards in recognition of work and clinical research in the field of Endourology. Dr Conradie is a founding member of the African Endourology Society. Dr Conradie was appointed as the President of the World Congress of Endourology and ESWL for 2016 that was hosted in Cape Town, South Africa.
