Dr. André Du Plessis B Med Sci MB Ch B PDD Sed

After gaining his B.Med.Sci degree from the University of Pretoria in 1981, Andre went on to complete his M.BCh.B at the same institution. Following a year in the gold mines in SA, he travelled extensively over the following 7 years, practicing medicine in Canada, Greece and South America.This included a couple of years sailing the seas as a cruise ship's surgeon, resident ski resort physician in the Rockies, and working with Inuit communities in the remote northern territories of Canada and Alaska.

On his return to South Africa he spent 5 years rotating through departments of Opthalmology, Psychiatry, Orthopaedic surgery, A&E, Obstetrics, Radiology and eventually Anaesthetics. Since his arrival in the UK in 1995, he has involved himself on a full-time basis with the administration of conscious sedation as a non-consultant, and has been in partnership with Joe Omar in the West End of London since 1997.

The practice is dedicated and limited to the provision of conscious sedation. He was a founder member of the Society of Conscious Sedation in 1999, and gained his Diploma in Conscious Sedation from the University of Stellenbosch in 2002. Presently he is enrolled as a MSc. program in Sedation and Pain Management at the UWC in Cape Town. Andre has been organising twice yearly sedation symposiums in London since 1999, and became coordinator of the Eastman CPD (University College London) / University of the Western Cape Postgraduate Certificate in Sedation and Pain Management in 2005.