Dr Thozama Siyotula is a distinguished paediatric surgeon at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. With a profound interest in hepatobiliary, transplant, thoracic and neonatal surgical outcomes. She completed her undergraduate training in 2011 at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Furthering her studies she went on to specialise in paediatric surgery through the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa, completing her FCPaedSurg (SA) in
2021 and a master’s in medicine (Paediatric Surgery) in 2021 at the University of Cape
Town.

Executive leadership in Global surgery at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town 2024. She currently works as a paediatric surgeon and transplant surgeon. A senior lecture at the University of Cape Town and course convenor for the 5th year undergraduate paediatric surgery programme at the University of Cape Town.

Dr Siyotula’s passion is that every child has access to the best surgical care regardless of their socio-economic status or geographical location in the country.

She would like to be a part of creating solutions regarding the surgical care of children in South Africa.