Dr Swart’s friendly staff will make you feel at ease and is dedicated to provide the best professional service possible.
Dr Swart often takes a progressive approach, involving non-surgical or conservative treatment options first. If surgery is indicated as the best solution, the most advanced high-quality care available, is provided.
Receptionist - Annie forms an integral part of the practice and is the the first friendly face you will see. She has been Dr Swart’s right hand since day one. She will gladly assist you with scheduling appointments and any general enqueries you may have.
Accounts and Medical Aids - Lenie The massive administrative undertaking to get a patient to surgery is made easy for you by Lenie.
Practice Manager - Contact Miranda with any practice related enquiries. She is also your go to person for any financial questions.
Dr Francois Swart Neurosurgeon: MBChB DA DipPEC M Med
Is a specialist neurosurgeon and has more than twenty years’ experience in general neurosurgery. He performs a range of cranial, spinal, peripheral nerve, and pain management procedures. He has a special interest in the resection of brain lesions whilst minimizing neurological deficit as well as in the effective management of chronic pain to maximise the patient’s quality of life.
He believes in a multidisciplinary and patient centered approach - to obtain the best sustainable outcomes. Dr Swart is an advocate of techniques such as Fluorescence Guided Resection, Gamma Knife Radiosurgery and Neuromodulation for functional disorders like chronic pain. He was a member the team who first did the Gamma Knife procedure in South Africa.
He obtained his Medical Degree: MBChB Cum Laude, from the University of Pretoria in 1995.
He holds a post-graduate diploma in Anaesthetics (DA) from The Colleges of Medicine of South Africa, as well as a post-graduate diploma from The Colleges of Medicine of South Africa in Primary Emergency Care (Dip PEC).
His postgraduate specialisation was overseen by The University of Pretoria, Faculty of Life Sciences and he is one of only a handful of neurosurgeons in South Africa, who obtained their Masters Degree: MMed – Neurosurgery, Cum Laude.
He was selected to complete a prestigious Medtronic International Education Programme for Young Neurosurgeons (YNTP) in Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) for Movement Disorders like Parkinson’s disease. In this respect he attended YNTP endorsed training centers in Switzerland at the University Hospital Zürich as well as in The United Kingdom at The National Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery in London.
He has previously acted as faculty for the international organisation AOspine and is a member of The Society of Neurosurgeons of South Africa, The South African Spine Society and The South African Medical Association.
Dr Swart performs Awake Craniotomies (also called Awake Brain Surgery) if indicated, this is a type of procedure performed on the brain while you are awake and alert. Awake brain surgery is used to treat some brain (neurological) conditions, including some brain tumours or epileptic seizures. If the tumour or the area of the brain where the seizures occur (epileptic focus) is near the parts of the brain that control vision, movement or speech, a patient may need to be awake during surgery. For this Dr Swart utilises a multi-professional team, in line with global best practises, where a mental health professional forms part of the team and offers support to both the patient and their significant others in the process before, during and after the surgery.
Dr Swart is dedicated to offering patients options to the least invasive procedures , with the best sustainable and long-term results.
