Anil Madaree

Professor Anil Madaree Heads the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN. He is the President of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa since 2010. He was the President of the International Society of Craniofacial Surgery from 2009 – 2011. He is the former President of the Association of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons of South Africa and the South African Society of Burns. He is the National Representative of the International Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (IPRAS). He was Exco of the Association of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons of Southern Africa (APRSSA) from 1997 to 2012. He is currently the Executive Member of Colleges of Medicine of South Africa and the Medical Director of Operation Smiles, South Africa.

Throughout his career he has received a number of accolades including; Rhodes scholarship to study Medicine in 1976. This award was successfully renewed every year until the completion of studies in 1980. In 1989 he received The Smith & Nephew Travelling Fellowship by the Association of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons of South Africa. In the same year, he was Invited by the Plastic Surgery Education Foundation of America as one of four International young Academics to attend the Annual American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons meeting in San Francisco U.S.A.

In 1990 he was awarded The Visiting Scholar Programme by the Plastic Surgery Education Foundation of America to study in any institution in the United States of America. Completed a clinical fellowship in Plastic Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia under the chairmanship of Dr. Linton A Whitaker from August 1990 – December 1990. In 1997 he was chosen as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons (TOYP) in the World in the Medical category and presented at the JCI World Congress in Honolulu, Hawaii. In July 2012 he was elected Honorary Fellow of Academy of Medicine of Malaysia, July 2012 and in the same year, he was also elected Fellow of Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. He is also the Honorary Fellow of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan.