Dr Jan Swanepoel, CV

CV Summary
Dr Jan Swanepoel

Liaison Psychiatrist
MBChB (UFS SA), FCPsych (SA)

1. Registered as Independent Specialist, Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA)
2. Registered with a License to Practice, General Medical Council United Kingdom (GMC)
3. Member of the Medical Association of South Africa (MASA)
4. Fellow of the College of Medicine South Africa (FCSA)
5. Member of the South African Society of Psychiatrists (SASOP)
6. Member of the Psychiatry Management Group, South Africa (PsychMg)
7. International Member of the American Psychiatric Association(APA)
8. International Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrist, United Kingdom (RCP)
9. International Member of the World Federation of Social and Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP)

Dr Jan Swanepoel qualified as Medical Doctor (MBChB, UOFS Bloemfontein, SA, 1994), as Specialist Psychiatrist (FCPsych, UCT Cape Town, SA) and gained extensive local- and international experience as Liaison Psychiatrist (defined as "Physical illness related Psychiatry").

He completed formal post-graduate clinical positions at Grootte Schuur and Valkenberg Hospitals, attached to the University of Cape Town (UCT) Academic Program, followed by International training positions through the University College London (UCL) post-graduate training scheme, supported by the UCL and Cambridge Academic Program.

Subsequent senior professional appointments include Liaison Psychiatrist to the

1. Avon and Wiltshire NHS Trust (Salisbury, UK), inclusive of Odstock Regional Medical Hospital
2. Netcare Blaauwberg and Milnerton Medi-Clinic (Cape Town, SA), inclusive of the Regional Trauma Centers
3.Constantiaberg Medi-Clinic (Cape Town, SA), inclusive of the Constantiaberg Haematology- and Bone Marrow Transplant Unit
4. Netcare N1 City Hospital (Cape Town, SA), incorporating the N1 Regional Breast Cancer Unit and Claro Clinic Psychiatric Facility
5. Intecare Tyger Valley Rehabilitation Hospital (Cape Town, SA), incorporating theRegional Stroke Rehabilitation Service
6. Stellenbosch Medi-Clinic (Stellenbosch, SA), incorporating the NEUROCARE Centre for Neurolopsychiatric disease

Currently Dr Swanepoel works as Principle Liaison Psychiatrist to Stellenbosch Medi-Clinic, in his capacity as NEUROCARE Director. NEUROCARE is a multi-disciplinary specialist group for brain disease offering regional services to the greater Cape Town and Winelands districts.

Liaison Psychiatry involves the brain and mind complications of all sub-divisions of general medical conditions. As such Dr Swanepoel has gained experience in all of the following subjects:

1. Memory (e.g. cognitive assessments, dementia management, attention deficit disorder treatment ADD)
2. Neurology (e.g. Parkinson's disease, epilepsy complications, multiple sclerosis MS management)
3. Neurosurgery (e.g. traumatic brain injury management, brain haemorrage rehabilitation)
4. Oncology (e.g. cancer-related brain or mind complications, breast and other cancer support)
5. Haematology (e.g. leukema, bone marrow transplant, lymphoma support)
6. Rheumatology (e.g. fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, Lupus SLE, pain management)
7. Cardiology (e.g. vascular dementia, post-heart attack rehabilitation, stroke support)
8. Pulmonology (e.g. asthma, chronic obstructive airway disease COLS, ICU support)
9. Gynaecology (e.g. hormonally induced emotional states such as PMS, post-natal depression PND)
10. Surgery (e.g. pain management, post traumatic event management of confusional states)
11. Urology (e.g. delirium from recurrent urinary tract infections, medication side-effects, sexual disorders)
12. Orthopedics (e.g. delirium from recurrent urinary tract infections, medication side-effects, sexual disorders)
13. Pain (e.g. migraine, tension headaches, strategies for fibromyalgia, pain modulating medication)
14. Treatment complications (e.g. opiate addiction in pain, compensatory alcohol dependency, medication side-effects)

Dr Swanepoel is also medical consultant and software developer to MEDIWEB, a software company specializing in the application of modern web-technologies to Clinical Neuroscience.

Recently he launched PSYCHWEB in collaboration with internationally interested healthcare participants.

Personally Dr Swanepoel is a devoted Christian, is married to Annette (a Neurologist), and the couple has two daughters, Annalie (a Computer Science Masters Student at Oxford University),and Nelia (currently completing her Cambridge international schooling curriculum).

Favourite activities include playing golf, being a violinist in various symphony orchestras, maintaining a large bonsai collection, snowboarding and bush breaks.