Dr Geofré Heyns

Matriculated – Grey College Bloemfontein 1985:
- Honours Badge Academics
- AK Volsteedt Medal – Academics, Sport, Culture
- Rugby – First Team & Provincial Colours
- Target Shooting: Provincial Colours
- School Prefect
- Member of School Choir

Undergraduate Studies:
MBChB, UFS, Bloemfontein, South Africa

Intern and Medical Officer:
Eben-Dönges Hospital, Worcester, South Africa
- Anaesthesia / High Care / Surgery / Orthopaedics / ENT
- District Surgeon

Postgraduate Studies:
- DA (SA) College of Medicine South Africa
- MMed (Surgery) University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
- ATLS Trauma Instructor
- Advanced Laparoscopic Surgeon Diploma –   Université De Strasbourg - (France)

- FACS - American College of Surgeons

Presentations and Research:
- “The effect of subfascial endoscopic perforator vein surgery (SEPS) on the ambulatory venous pressures in patients

with chronic venous insufficiency”
- Bill Venter Vascular Unit, Department of Surgery, University of the Free State in close collaboration with Dr J Fourie,

Proff R Barry and RS du Toit.
- Sun City South Africa:  SASES - AESGBI Congress for endoscopic surgery, South Africa, Great Britain and Ireland
- Award for the most outstanding researcher – Department of Surgery, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein,

South Africa
- SRS (Surgical Research Society) South African Junior Research Award
- Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Free State – Junior Research Award
- Malmö Sweden: Presentation at the Tripartite Meeting of ESSR-SRS-SUS (UK, Europe and USA)

Consultant 2000:
- Department of Surgery, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

Courses Attended:
- Advanced Course in Laparoscopic Digestive Surgery, Strassburg, France
- Elancourt Center of Excellence: VIP Colorectal, Paris, France
- World Congress of Gastro Enterology – Montreal, Canada
- Northern American Congress – American College of Surgeons – Bariatric Post Graduate Course.
- Jacques Himpens – Belgium – Bariatric Surgery
- Bariatric Surgery: SAGES Masterclass – Port Elizabeth, South Africa
- Masterclass Bariatric Surgery – Elancourt, France
- ACS - San Francisco, USA
- ACS - Chicago, USA
- ACS - New Orleans, USA
- DDW - New Orleans, USA
- UEGW - Genève, Switzerland
- UEGW - Madrid, Spain
- 9 IBD Conference  - Athens, Greece
- IRCAD/Eits - Strassburg, France
- ACS - Washington DC, USA
- Flexible endoscopy and hemostasis in upper GI bleeding - EAES
- International Congress of the European Association for Surgery, Torino, Italy

- 7th International Endohernia Society Meeting and Workshop 2013 (IEHS)

- ISUCRS - Cape Town, 2014

- ACS - San Fransisco, USA, 2014

- 5th Live Surgery and Symposium (of Coloproctology) Berlin, Germany, 2016

Surgical Fields of Interest:
- Laparoscopic Surgery

- Cancer Surgery

- Gastroenterology
- Breast Surgery / Endocrine Surgery
- Bariatric / Obesity Surgery

- Vascular / Venous Surgery