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ProfPierre Goussard

Professor

Paediatrics And Child Health

Orcid identifier0000-0003-1146-1307
  • Professor
    Paediatrics And Child Health
  • 0219389506 (Work)
  • Stellenbosch University, Paediatrics and Child Health, Francie van Zijl Avenue, Clinical Building, 2nd Floor, Room 2077, Tygerberg, 7505, South Africa

OVERVIEW

Prof Pierre Goussard is a full professor at Stellenbosch University's Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, as well as the Head of Clinical Units: Paediatric Pulmonology and Paediatric Intensive Care at Tygerberg Hospital. He is also the chair of the Tygerberg Hospital Children's Trust. Tygerberg Hospital serves as a referral centre for complex cases such as tuberculosis, HIV, complicated pneumonia, airway pathology, and congenital lesions. He is a highly skilled and experienced paediatric bronchoscopist who sees 350 cases per year, using both flexible and rigid bronchoscopes. He also performs a large number of different interventional procedures. Prof Goussard collaborated with European experts to develop novel bronchoscopic diagnostic and therapeutic methods for diseases such as pulmonary tuberculosis. He is a National Research Foundation (NRF)-rated researcher whose research focuses on tuberculosis-related airway disease and new diagnostic methods using BAL in tuberculosis. He earned his PhD and has published 205 peer-reviewed articles as well as several book chapters. He serves on the International Advisory Board of the annual International Congress on Paediatric Pulmonology (CIPP), as a faculty member of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Skills course in paediatric bronchoscopy, as an international expert panel member for consensus on long-acting monoclonal antibodies for RSV prevention, as a task force member for the ERS Clinical Practice Guideline on Congenital Lung Abnormalities, and as Co-Chair of the annual Here Be Lungs Conference. He is an associate editor for BMJ Case Reports and Respiration, and a member of the editorial boards for the Paediatric Respiratory Journal and the African Journal of Thoracic and Critical Care Medicine.

STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY GROUPS MEMBERSHIP

  1. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
    Group

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Professor
    Stellenbosch University, Paediatrics and Child Health, Cape Town, South Africa1 Jun 2021
  • Head of Clinical Units: Paediatric Pulmonology and Paediatric Intensive Care
    Tygerberg Hospital, Paediatrics and Child Health, Tygerberg, South Africa1 May 2016

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Chair
    Tygerberg Hospital Children’s Trust, Cape Town, South Africa2018

DEGREES

  • MBChB
    Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa1985 - 1990
  • MMed (Paed)
    Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa1994 - 1998
  • PhD
    Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa2015
  • FC Paed (SA)
    Colleges of Medicine of South Africa, Rondebosch, South Africa2016

LANGUAGES

  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Afrikaans
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review