Dr Elliot Motloung
Specialist Paediatric Surgeon
Dr Elliot Motloung completed his undergraduate medical degree at the University of the Free State in 2007. He did his internship at Ladysmith Provincial Hospital in KwaZulu-Natal and Boitumelo Provincial Hospital in the Free State, and thereafter enrolled with the South African Military Health Services to do his community service at the SA Military School of Engineering in 2010.
In 2011, Dr Motloung commenced working in the Department of Paediatric Surgery at the East London Hospital complex, before commencing his registrar’s training programme in paediatric surgery at the University of the Free State in 2013 and finished his training in 2017. He continued post graduate training in surgical leadership program at Harvard university school of medicine and is now reading a master of science in medical education at Oxford, UK.
Dr Motloung has a particular interest in minimal access thoraco-abdominal surgery, trauma and paediatric cancer surgery. He is the head of department for Paediatric Surgical Services at both Rob Ferreira and Themba hospitals, Mpumalanga. Dr Motloung also practises at Kiaat Private Hospital.
