Dr Vicky Adele Jennings

Dr Vicky Adele Jennings was born and raised in Pretoria, South Africa. Her basic education was completed in Pretoria and she qualified as a medical practitioner in 2003 from the University of Pretoria. She completed her internship at Kalafong Hospital and community service in Mamelodi Hospital, Pretoria.  

She became a medical officer at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic hospital in 2006 where she worked in trauma surgery, paediatric surgery and plastic surgery. She also worked as a casualty doctor in various private hospitals emergency rooms in 2007, whereafter she pursued a career in General Surgery at the University of the Witwatersrand. She qualified as a Fellow of the College of Surgeons of South Africa (FCS) in 2012 and was awarded the University of the Witwatersrand Len Miller prize for the best candidate in surgery. 

In 2013 she became a consultant in the trauma unit at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital and a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand. She started a 2 year fellowship in Trauma Surgery at the University of the Witwatersrand, working at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and the Netcare Milpark Trauma Academic Centre. She completed the sub-speciality Certificate of Trauma Surgery through the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa in 2015.  

Currently she is the Deputy Head of the Trauma Unit and a Trauma Surgery consultant at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital. She also practices as a trauma surgeon at the Netcare Milpark Hospital Trauma Academic Centre, a Level 1 trauma Unit. She is an ATLS course director, a DSTC national course director and international instructor, an ITLS medical director, an international speaker, a final year medical student examiner and senior lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand. She is a member of various international trauma surgical and critical care committees and societies. Her main interests are in penetrating and blunt trauma management, trauma surgical critical care, surgical training and new technologies for trauma surgery.