Biography
Dr Cindy Zietsman qualified through the University of Pretoria as undergraduate 1994 and postgraduate as a urologist in 2001. She practiced academic medicine until entering private practice in Pretoria at the Wilgers hospital from 2003. In February 2020, she was enticed into taking up a position at Ngwelezana Tertiary Provincial Hospital and bringing the Department of Urology, which is an outreach arm of the University of KwaZulu- Natal, into being.She grew the Department of Urology at Ngwelezana to its current staff capacitation of three full-time specialists before assuming the full-time post of Academic Head of Urology UKZN and Head of Clinical Department of Urology KZN in October 2023.While in private practice she became deeply interested in interstitial cystitis and the close association between the autoimmune disease spectrum and treated these patients in conjunction with internal medicine, endocrinologists and rheumatologists. She is also passionate about spina bifida occulta patients, spinal cord injured patients, reconstructive paediatric urology and brachytherapy for prostate cancer.We like to think of urology as a big team and indeed a family. And through service to our patients care for one another live the lesson of ‘How can we help you?’
