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Dr François Nicolaas Schutte is an internationally renowned senior specialist laparoscopic upper gastrointestinal tract (GIT) and bariatric surgeon who has been practising at our hospital since 1990, where he also heads the accredited Netcare Sunward Park Bariatric Centre of Excellence. Dr Schutte performed one of the very first laparoscopic cholecystectomies in 1992 and has trained both South African and international surgeons in laparoscopic surgery techniques. Dr Schutte has established a high-resolution manometric and pH laboratory at Netcare Sunward Park Hospital, and he is currently in the process of establishing 5G telemetry surgery in cooperation and consultation with the prestigious international surgical training forum, Advances In Surgery (AIS).
Dr Schutte was the first South African surgeon to be invited by the Barcelona, Spain based AIS to perform a live laparoscopic hiatus hernia repair and an anti-reflux procedure, which was live-streamed from Netcare Sunward Park Hospital to a worldwide audience of 115 000 surgeons in October 2018. Since then, the AIS has endorsed the live-streamed technique. Dr Schutte has also published several educational teaching videos on hiatus hernia repairs, as well as Roux-en-Y gastric bypasses.