Dr LE Volkwyn

Dr Liana Eleanor Volkwyn is a registered Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeon, a fellow of the College of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons of South Africa, who is currently working in private practice in Brooklyn, Centurion, Pretoria.

Dr Volkwyn completed her studies and training as a Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon, at the University of Pretoria in 2015. She is the first coloured female Plastic Surgeon to qualify in South Africa.

Her registrar training was undertaken at Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria. She spent a year managing a (15 bed) Burns Unit at the Kalafong Academic Hospital, prior to moving into the private practice sector.

She is a registered member of APRASSA, Association of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons of South Africa, APRASSA.

She then joined the Rhinoplasty Society of Europe in 2016-2019, as she had always displayed keen interest in functional and aesthetic Rhinoplasty. In 2019 she became an international of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.

The mainstay of her private practice is; facial soft tissue reconstruction, cosmetic (both body and facial cosmetic surgery) surgery and breast reconstruction.

A portion of her Practice also involves Medico-legal and Road Accident Fund Work.

She is also involved with a Penis Rehabilitation Project, together with her esteemed colleague Dr Johannes Kritzinger, for young males mutilated by traditional (cultural) circumcision at the Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital in Mthata. Having trained in a university that ran a successful Gender Dysphoria Clinic, was instrumental in building the skills to be able to tackle this complex project.