Dr D Whitaker

Education

Dr Dagmar Whitaker obtained S.E.G. in 1982 (summa cum laude)

M.D at the University of Frankfurt (cum laude). 1983

Worked in internal Medicine from 1984 – 1989.

Registrar in Dermatology at the University of Stellenbosch from 1990 – 1994.

During 1994 Light Therapy training at the Department of Dermatology University of Munich, Germany.  M.Med. Derm – University of Stellenbosch 1994

Practice

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Interests

In private practice in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa since1994.

Memberships | Leadership

Registrars Prize for Best Congress presentation

Publication in Journal of Skin-Diseases (RSA) and CME journal(RSA)

Hautarzt Publication (2004):  Author of the Melanoma Guidelines for South Africa.

Co-Author of the Psoriasis Guidelines for South Africa

Actively involved in skin cancer awareness campaigns (lectures at schools, publications in the lay press, radio interviews, TV / video production) in collaboration with UNEP as well as Ministry of Environmental Affairs (United Nations Environmental Program, Ozone Office).

Actively involved in CME programmes (lectures to GP’s and Pharmacists).

Local congress presentations:

1-2 Congress presentations (RSA) per year,on skincancer,melanoma, Vitiligo  including PDT workshops.

International congress presentations:

Congress Presentation on PDT at the EADV 2004.

Congress Presentation on Melanoma management at the World Melanoma conference in Vienna 2009

Invited speaker on Melanoma around the world Melanoma conference Hamburg 2013

Invited faculty member of the World skincancer congress ,Edinburgh 2014

Invited Speaker at Skincancer congress in Suzdal, Russia 2015

Congress president and speaker at the first World Melanoma Society conference in Cape Town 2017

Invited speaker at the International Summer Academy Munich 2017

Invited Speaker Melanoma Conference Rio de janeiro August 2018

Invited speaker (Pleanary Lecture) Europeoan Dermato-Oncology  conference Barcelona nov 2018

Association

President of the Melanoma Society South Africa

Vice president of the  Melanoma World Society

Vice president Woman in Dermatology Society South Africa

Immediate Past President Dermatological Society South Africa

Member of Advisory Boards (Biologicals combined committee, Roche, Aspen, Adcock Ingram, Novartis)