Meet Dr Brian Monaisa
Dr Brian Monaisa is a multifaceted plastic surgeon who runs a successful private practice, Marang Aesthetics, based in Sandton and the West Rand, Johannesburg. He is also currently the head of plastic surgery at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, where he has worked for the last fifteen years, focused on Paediatric cleft lip and palate, and hand reconstructive surgery.
His private practice focusses on cosmetic and paediatric surgery, while Marang Aesthetics provides surgical support services as well as non-surgical aesthetics. He is a published scientist with articles and international presentations on both cosmetic and paediatric surgery. He has written several newspaper articles about various plastic surgery procedures, especially the mommy makeover and how it improves people’s quality of life.
A passionate South African, Dr Monaisa founded Smile Artists Africa in 2019. This nonprofit organization is a collaboration of some of our countries best fashion designers and visual artists as who come together to raised funds for breast cancer reconstruction and awareness. He also loves the Springboks and Bafana Bafana.
Dr Brian Monaisa
Head of Plastic Surgery: Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital
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Milestones & Achievements
In recognition of Dr Brian Monaisa’s achievements:
January 2012 to April 2017
Dr Monaisa started registrar time in January 2012. He was admitted as a Fellow of the College of Plastic Surgeons in May 2017. Achievements during registrar time include presenting twice at APRSSA and once at the SASSH congress. He won the prize for “Best Clinical Paper” at the APRSSA congress in 2015, for his work on paediatric elbow flexion reconstruction using the latissimus dorsi muscle. Dr Monaisa also presented at various registrar symposia and academic meetings.
September 2010 to December 2011
He rotated through various surgical units at CHAH, including: Paediatric Surgery, General Surgery, Colorectal and Endocrine units. Operations performed are diverse, including thyroid lobectomies, laparotomies, and diabetic complication management, amongst others.
March to August 2010
He spent six months in the Intensive Care Unit at CHBH. This is an essential part of training for a specialist surgeon role, and experience and knowledge in the ICU management of many surgical conditions was gained.
September 2009 to February 2010
He spent six months in the department of Plastic Surgery as a Medical Officer. His goal in returning to CHBH was to become a plastic surgeon, and he treated this time as a six month long job interview.
January to August 2009
Medical and Scientific Liaison for psychiatry ,with Janssen-Cilag. This was a contract position for 2009, with an option of renewal beyond. His main focus was to keep the psychiatric community informed of developments in the therapeutic areas that Janssen-Cilag is involved in; and to serve as an educational resource to the company. He elected during this time to return to school with the aim of becoming a plastic surgeon.
2007 to end 2008
Consultant to NW Dept of Health on HIV Prevention strategies. Worked to develop prevention strategies for the HIV High-transmission-area Prevention project. We grew the project from having 35 peer educators to >100 within the 18 month period. The contract ended at end 2008.
His biggest achievement during this time was the creation of an educational website that operated on cell-phones. Topics included on the website are an english dictionary, career development, and HIV education. The goal was to make information easily accesible, especially in rural areas of South Africa. This was achieved, at a very low cost to the user.
August 2006 to July 2007
Adcock Ingram (AI); Position: Manager – ARV’s and Managed Healthcare.
- Oversaw the development of the ARV Marketing Campaign and developed the Sales Strategy. Developed very good relationships with the HIV Disease Management Companies, esp. AfA and Lifeworks.
- Leveraged relationships developed while in mining sector to increase usage of AI portfolio of medicines (S. Buys and Hettie Taute showed >100% growth in last three months of 2006.)
- Solidified AI relationships at Discovery, and helped develop AI presence on 2007 formulary. I facilitated collaboration to market Discovery Generic Campaign to consumers and service providers.
- I conducted HIV medicine management training with the DUR pharmacists at Medikredit and Mediscor, dealing specifically with the challenges they faced in their daily tasks.
Good relations were also developed with some of the smaller schemes, administrators and PBM’s, e.g. I hosted the first PCMA CPE in KZN, at Sovereign Health.
2005
Joined the Reproductive Health Research Unit (WITS Health Consortium), reporting to Francois Venter, president of the South African HIV Clinicians Society.
- I trained >400 clinicians in HIV and ART management.
- Provided ongoing mentorship to Specialists, Generalists and Nurses at the Government ART sites in the North-West province. I also developed numerous teaching materials, tackling the most difficult aspects of HIV and ART therapy. Many of these are still being used by the RHRU.
2004 and 2003
He worked at Amandelbult Mine (Anglo Platinum, Thabazimbi). He adapted very quickly to a conservative environment, and was promoted to Senior Medical Officer. He took over the management of the Wellness (HIV) Clinic and grew it to >800 patients, with over 300 miners on ART.
In his community service year he went to a rural district hospital, where he established clinical protocols that improved patient care. He also served on the Disability Assessment Committee of the same district
2001
Awarded the Anglo-Platinum Final Year Scholarship in his 6th year at UCT.
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