Director of Implementation in the Division of Global Surgery, University of Cape Town; South Africa

Dr Rowan Duys, is a specialist anaesthesiologist at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and leads the Groote Schuur Hospital Chronic Pain Clinic. In his research and capacity building role he is the Director of Implementation in the Division of Global Surgery, and a director and founder of both the Simulation Launchpad, a faculty development workshop, and the Anaesthesia Launchpad, a District Hospital Anaesthesia training programme. He leads Quality Improvement projects in multiple hospitals across the country that have improved the quality of surgical care delivered. Further, he has been elected to the South African Society of Anaesthesia national council. 

He hopes to unleash frontline workers as change agents who improve the quality of surgical care they provide.

Rowan would like to be remembered as the husband behind his wonderful wife, the father of three girls, and someone who ran enthusiastically, but slowly, up mountains.