@wsu.ac.za
Associate Professor, Department of Paediatric Surgery
Frere Hospital, affilciated to Walter Sisulu University
Dr Milind Chitnis is the Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Paediatric Surgery at the East London Hospital Complex, affiliated with the Walter Sisulu University in East London, South Africa. He has been the Honorary Secretary of the College of Paediatric Surgeons of South Africa for the 2020-2023 period and a member of the Council of the College of Paediatric Surgeons of South Africa for 2017-2026. He is a board member of the Global Initiative for Children’s Surgery (2020-2026) and the Honorary Secretary of the Pan African Association of Paediatric Surgeons (PAPSA) for 2023-2027. He is also a founding Trustee of the NPO- Eyabantwana for the Children- which supports the needs of the Department of Paediatric Surgery in East London. He is passionate about improving Paediatric Surgical care and training in low- and middle-income countries in general and Africa in particular.
Certificate in Paediatric Surgery 2004 College of Medicine of South Africa
Master of Chirurgiae (MCh) 1989 Bombay (Mumbai) University, India
(Paediatric Surgery)
Master of Surgery (MS)
(General Surgery) 1986 University of Poona (Pune), India
Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor
of Surgery (MBBS) 1982 University of Poona (Pune), India
Surgery, Pediatrics
Scopus Publications
Scholar Citations
Scholar h-index
Scholar i10-index
Abdelbasit E Ali, Shilpa Sharma, Olumide A Elebute, Adesoji Ademuyiwa, Noxolo Z. Mashavave, Milind Chitnis, Simone Abib, Fazal Nouman Wahid Trauma and sexual abuse in children—Epidemiology, challenges, management strategies and prevention in lower and middle-income countries Seminars in Pediatric Surgery Volume 32, Issue 6, December 2023,
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• Machaea SS, Chitnis MR, Nongena P. Prevalence of gastroschisis and its neonatal mortality in the Eastern Cape Province tertiary institutions. Afr J Paediatr Surg 2023; 20:46-50 DOI: 10.4103/
• Evaluation of Intussusception After Oral Monovalent Rotavirus Vaccination in South Africa
Michelle J Groome, Jacqueline E Tate, Marion Arnold, Milind Chitnis, Sharon Cox, Corné de Vos, Mari Kirsten, Susanna M le Grange, Jerome Loveland, Sello Machaea,
Ashwini Maharaj, Nick Andrews, Shabir A Madhi, Umesh D Parashar
Clinical Infectious Diseases, ciz431,
• Collaborating author: Global Initiative for Children’s Surgery: A Model of Global Collaboration to Advance the Surgical Care of Children World Journal of Surgery
June 2019, Volume 43, Issue 6, pp 1416–1425
doi: 10.1007/s00268-018-04887-8.
• Chitnis M, Lazarus C, Simango I, Elsen M, von Delft D, van Rensburg C, Tovell Trollope L. Laparoscopically inserted button col
Pan African Paediatric Surgical Association
Global Initiative for Children's Surgery
South African Association of Paediatric Surgeons
Eyabantwan for the Children Trust
Paediatric Surgery- clinical and training