Dr I Heydenrych

Education

Before specialising in Dermatology, Izolda obtained a Diploma in Anaesthetics and BSc Hons in Nuclear Medicine (Stellenbosch University)

M.Med (Dermatology)                                                        University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 1997          

Hons.B.Sc. (Nuclear Medicine)                                      University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 1991

Diploma in Anaesthesiology                                            South African College of Medicine, South Africa, 1987

M.B.,Ch.B.                                                                               University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 1978

Teachers’ Licentiate Diploma Piano                             University of South Africa, 1977

Performers’ Licentiate Diploma Piano                        Royal Schools of Music, London, 1977

Performers’ Diploma Licentiate Chamber Music    University of South Africa, 200

Practice

Izolda is a director and co-founder of the Cape Town Cosmetic Dermatology Centre and is currently in full-time private practice.

Interests

Due to her passion for teaching, she holds an Honorary Consultant’s position in Aesthetics at Stellenbosch University, where she pioneered formal aesthetic training for Dermatologists.

Over the past 3 years, she instituted the Short Course in Cosmetic Dermatology (SCCD) for qualified Dermatologists as well as the Dermatology Aesthetic Review Meetings (DARM), which have now evolved to include multiple fraternities at national meetings.

She has also instituted formal registrar training (RATS) for the registrars of both Cape Town and Stellenbosch Universities, an initiative that is to extend to the University of KwaZulu-Natal as of 2017.

Memberships | Leadership

Director: Cape Town Cosmetic Dermatology Centre

Honorary Consultant (Aesthetics), Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine,

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University

President of the South African Society of Dermatologic Surgery

Founding member of the African Women’s Dermatological Society

South African representative of the International Allergan Medical Aesthetics Academy

Key Opinion leader for L’Oreal/SkinCeuticals/La Roche Posay