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Fiona Elize Kritzinger

Fiona Elize Kritzinger MBChB, DCH, FCPaed, MMed

Pediatrics, Pediatric Pulmonary
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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Dr Fiona Kritzinger graduated cum laude from the medical school of Stellenbosch University in 1999. She received the Chancellor’s Medal from Stellenbosch University the same year for her academic excellence and other achievements.

After completing her internship and community service in South Africa, she completed her first year of paediatric specialist training in Brisbane, Australia. Thereafter she relocated to Cape Town where she completed another three years of paediatric specialist training at Stellenbosch University. She graduated cum laude with a Master’s degree in Medicine (Paed) and received the Robert McDonald medal from the College of Medicine of South Africa (CMSA) in the final paediatric exam in 2006.

In 2007, she commenced her subspecialist training in paediatric pulmonology at Stellenbosch University. In July 2009, she received a Skye Foundation scholarship and was accepted as a fellow in paediatric respiratory medicine in the Hospital for Sick Children to further her studies at the University of Toronto, Canada. While in Canada, she completed a year of general paediatric respiratory medicine sub-speciality training and an additional 6-month fellowship in paediatric lung transplantation.
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