DERMA - Key Persons


Dr D Whitaker

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • President Melanoma Society
Dr Dagmar Whitaker obtained S.E.G. in 1982 (summa cum laude)

Dr I Heydenrych

Job Titles:
  • SASDS Representative / Education

Dr J Smith - President

Job Titles:
  • President

Dr N Khoza

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • AWDS and KZN Representative / Education
Dr Khoza has worked extensively in the field of dermatology at all major Durban hospitals.

Dr Pieter du Plessis

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Surgeon
  • Chairman of the South African Society for Mohs Surgery
  • Regional Representative Gauteng
Dr Pieter du Plessis is a dermatologist and skin cancer surgeon in Pretoria, South Africa. He qualified as a medical doctor and then as a dermatologist at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. As a skin cancer surgeon he specializes in MOHS Micrographic Surgery and as a senior registrar he spent time in the dermatologic surgery unit in Newcastle upon Tyne in the United Kingdom, where he trained in dermatologic surgery and formalin fixed Mohs Surgery. After a year as consultant in the academic department of dermatology he entered private practice in Pretoria with a focus on procedural dermatology. Dr du Plessis is Chairman of the South African Society for Mohs Surgery, past President of the South African Society of Dermatologic Surgery, serves on the exco of the Dermatologic Society of South Africa, and is a recipient of the American Society of Dermatologic Surgery ITMP Outstanding Contribution Award.

Dr S Kannenberg

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Exco Member / Education

Dr Sian Hartshorne

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • President SASDS & Congress Coordinator
  • President SASDS and Congress Organizer

Dr W Visser - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Treasurer
  • Treasurer / Education

Marlize Nel

Job Titles:
  • Web Administrator

Sarina Drusinsky

Job Titles:
  • Secretary of DSSA ) Dermatologist in East London, Eastern Cape