Kgosi Letlape

June 4, 2018

Kgosi Letlape
Dr, President of the HPCSA
Health Professions Council of South Africa; Chairperson, Medical and Dental Board

Dr Kgosi Letlape is currently the President of the Health Professions Council of South Africa and Chairperson of the Medical and Dental Board.
Dr Letlape obtained his MBChB degree in medicine from the University of KwaZulu Natal in 1981.
In 1988, he completed his FSC (OPHTH) degree in Ophthalmology at the College of Ophthalmology Medicine South Africa. In the same year he obtained his FRCS (OPHTH) degree in Ophthalmology at the University at Edinburgh.

Professional Activities
Board Member: South African Medical & Dental Practitioners, Johannesburg, 1989 – 1995
Vice Chairperson: South African Medical & Dental Practitioners, Johannesburg, 1990 – 1994
Chairperson: South African Medical & Dental Practitioners, 1994 – 1995
Chief Executive Officer: Phelo-Ntle, 1996 – 1997
Chairperson: National Council of the South African Medical Association, 2001 – 2009
President: World Medical Association (WMA), 2005 – 2006
Co- chair of the Prevention Task Team of (SANAC), 2007 – 2009
President of Africa Medical Association, 2006
Member of the Global Hygiene Council
President of the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA), October 2015

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