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BSc MBChB MD FRCS(Eng)
Dr Bob is the son of Bags Baigrie whom many will remember as a senior surgeon in Cape Town.
Following a BSc degree in Chemistry & Biochemistry (during which time he worked as a research
assistant to Professor Chris Barnard) Bob obtained his UCT medical degree with distinction in 1983.
He undertook his post-graduate training in London before being appointed Clinical Lecturer and Surgical
Tutor in the Nuffield Department of Surgery at the University of Oxford in 1989. Here he completed his
doctoral thesis after a period of clinical and laboratory research. He then spent six years specialising
purely in gastro-intestinal, colorectal and laparoscopic surgery in the UK and Australia.
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He returned to Cape Town at the end of 1996 to join the practice. He is a part time consultant in the GI Unit at Groote
Schuur Hospital, with a particular responsibility for the operative training of the Junior Consultants. He is also is
one of the three lead clinicians in the Combined Colorectal Cancer Clinic which determines management of all colorectal
and anal cancer patients in the regional provincial hospitals.
He is on the editorial board of the British Journal of Surgery, and is the first South African private surgeon
to be accorded this privilege. He was awarded the 2003 prize for the best clinical presentation at SAGES for his
randomized trial of anti-reflux surgery techniques. In the same year, this work was awarded the highest mark at
the annual AUGIS meeting in UK and was selected for a plenary session at the DDW meeting in New Orleans, 2004.
He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed original articles, as well as contributing several book chapters and
reviews, and spoken at over 20 international conferences. He is actively involved with undergraduate and postgraduate
teaching at UCT and is a regular contributor at local and national surgical conferences. Bob is Vice President of the
South African Society of Endoscopic (Laparoscopic) Surgeons (SASES) and was the Society’s eponymous lecturer in 2005.
He is a founder member of the Alpine Colorectal Meeting, which celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2009.
His interests include playing a wide range of ball sports, skiing, birding, politics and the kitchen. He is married
to a brilliant wife and they have two teenage children.
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