Johan Naude is a South African surgeon and urologist. Naude was former president of the South African Urological Association and a pioneering transplant surgeon who worked closely with legendary heart transplant surgeon

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Training

Johan Naude qualified in medicine at the

University of Pretoria The University of Pretoria (, ) is a multi-campus public university, public research university in Pretoria, the administrative and ''de facto'' capital of South Africa. The university was established in 1908 as the Pretoria campus of the Johan ...

in South Africa in 1963. He worked for a year in a mission hospital in the Eastern Caprivi Strip before doing a year's training in anatomical pathology. He trained in general surgery and urology at

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, where he ran the kidney transplant unit. He was head of the department of urology at the universities of Natal, Johannesburg, and Cape Town.

Career

He is a past president of the South African Urological Association and served on the executive committee of the South African Medical and Dental Council. He served as urology representative on the senate of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa. He has been visiting professor to numerous academic institutions, including a year at the

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. He was guest professor at the New York section of the

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. Naude is the only South African elected to honorary membership of the

British Association of Urological Surgeons The British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) is a professional association in the United Kingdom for urology professionals. Its official journal is the '' BJU International'', established in 1929, which is also the journal of the Urolo ...

. During 2003 and 2004 he worked in Mozambique, where he helped to establish a department of urology at the teaching hospital in Maputo. Surgical procedures devised by him are described in the standard British and American textbooks of urological surgery. He delivered the opening address and chaired the International symposium on "Reconstructive Urological Surgery in the Tropics" in Hawaii in 2004. Naude is a staunch advocate of racial equality, and during the apartheid era, became the first Urology department head at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (now Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine), the first medical school in South Africa open to all races.

References

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