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Samantha Pillay

Samantha Pillay MBBS, FRACS, GAICD

Urology
North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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Dr. Samantha Pillay is a Urological Surgeon. A 1992 graduate of the University of Adelaide Medical School, Dr. Pillay became the first woman to complete surgical training in Adult Urology in South Australia. Samantha was driven to improve incontinence treatment for men and women, providing specialized services, bringing the best treatments available to South Australians.

She undertook further training in the sub-specialty of Female Urology and Neurourology in Melbourne and worked in Christchurch, New Zealand before returning to Adelaide to start Continence Matters, becoming the first urologist to exclusively sub-specialize in Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery. She is not a urogynaecologist and for clarification on these semantics please read the position statement from the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand. She served as the Chair of the Female Urology Special Advisory Group for the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand from February 2007 to June 2013 and the President of the South Australian branch of the Continence Foundation of Australia from February 2011 to November 2014.
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