Dr. Thegesha Naidoo

Dr Thegesha Naidoo is a Consultant General Surgeon and Lecturer at Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University in Pretoria, South Africa. After obtaining her MBBS she did 2 years of Internship at R.K.Khan Academic Hospital in Kwa-Zulu Natal followed by 1 year of Community Service at a rural hospital in Standerton, Mpumalanga. She then commenced her General Surgery training as a Medical Officer in Kimberley Hospital in the Northern Cape and at Helen Joseph Hospital in Gauteng after which joined the Department of General Surgery at Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University as a Registrar. Dr Naidoo was nominated and served as a Registrar Representative in her final year of registrar-ship. She obtained her Masters in Medicine (MMED General Surgery) in 2020. In 2021 she wrote and passed her final General Surgery Exam after which she graduated as a Fellow of the College of Surgeons South Africa (FCS SA). Dr Naidoo has since been working as a Consultant in the Breast Surgery Unit at Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital. She is currently supervising 8 MMED projects (registrars) and 17 medical student research initiatives. 

In July 2022 Dr Naidoo presented her research titled “A comparison of provider delays in newly diagnosed breast cancer patients at two public hospitals in South Africa” at the Surgical Research Society of Southern Africa’s’ annual meeting held in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she was awarded the Sceales Antrobus Prize for the best presentation in the field of breast cancer research. Dr Naidoo has subsequently been invited by the Society of University Surgeons to present her research at the Academic Surgical Congress’ annual meeting in February 2023 in Houston Texas. 

Dr Naidoo is currently a Fellow of the College of Surgeons South Africa and is also the General Surgery representative in the College of Medicine South Africa’s Diploma Working Group.