Meet the Team

Prof. Nkhensani Chauke-Malinga

Plastic Surgeon

Professor Nkhensani Chauke-Malinga is a Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon with special interest rhinoplasty and nasal reconstruction, facial plastics surgery and body contouring procedures. She is the head of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Steve Biko Academic Hospital, University of Pretoria, which is a first for a female in South Africa. She is the secretary of the South African Rhinoplasty Society (SORSSA ) and the Academic Officer in the Executive Committee of the Southern African Facial Plastic Society (SAFPSA).

She obtained fellowship in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in 2017 from the Colleges of Medicine South Africa, with clinical training done at the University of the Witwatersrand. She cut her teeth in rhinoplasty as a fellow under Professor Enrico Robotti in Italy in 2018-2019 at Villa Sant’apollonia. As part of her fellowship in Plastic and  reconstructive surgery, she also rotated at Villa Bella clinic for Aesthetic breast surgery, Oculoplastic and Body contouring training by Drs Giovani and Chiara Botti and botox and filler training from Dr Frédéric Braccini in Milan.

A graduate of the Medical University of South Africa (MEDUNSA), Prof. Chauke-Malinga passed her MBcHB in 2003 with distinctions in Obstetrics, Gynecology, Family Medicine and Internal Medicine. She also obtained the Smith and Nephew student of the year award in orthopaedics in 2003. Her academic roots are in Bachelor of Medical and Laboratory science where she majored in Virology at the University of Limpopo, previously known as University of the North in 1998. She also holds an Advanced Business Management certificate obtained from Manchester University in 2006.

Prof. Chauke-Malinga is a member of the European Rhinoplasty Society, the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery and the European Academy of Plastic Surgery Society.

Her academic publications include:
• “A delayed presentation of Ameloblastic fibrosarcoma in an African patient” published in the British Medical Journal, 2017.

• “Metastatic Trichillema Carcinoma in a patient with breast cancer” published in the British Medical Journal, 2016.
• “A Modified Dorsal Split Preservation Technique for Nasal Humps with Minor Bony Component: A Preliminary Report” published in the Aesthetic plastic surgery.

Apart from her responsibility as the head of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Pretoria, Prof. Chauke-Malinga runs a part-time private practice in Linksfied, Rosebank and Arwyp Hospitals.