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Dr Tobias Kotzé is a consultant medical physicist. He was previously the deputy-Director and head of the Radionuclide section at the Directorate Radiation Control, SAHPRA, and a medical physicist at Groote Schuur Hospital.
- He obtained a Ph.D degree in atomic physics in 1986 at the University of Stellenbosch.
- He worked for 20 years at the Directorate Radiation Control, SAHPRA, and has vast experience of the radiation protection control program in South Africa.
- He was a radiation scientist at the Ionising Radiation sub-Directorate at the Directorate Radiation Control from 1986 till 1999 and responsible for the licensing of therapy equipment in South Africa.
- He was the deputy-Director of the Radionuclide sub-Directorate at the Directorate Radiation Control from 1999 till 2006.
He is registered as a medical physicist at the Health Professions Council of SA.
- He was a medical physicist in the Medical Physics Division at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town from 2006 till January 2016.
- He is currently a consultant medical physicist in the private sector, primarily responsible to determine radiation doses to patients undergoing interventional x-ray procedures.
- He is since 1986 a member of the South African Association of Physicists in Medicine and Biology (SAAPMB).
- He was elected in 2007 as a Council Member of the SAAPMB.
- He was elected in 2003 & 2006 to the Executive Committee of the South African Radiation Protection Society (SARPS).
- He was elected in 2007, 2008 and 2009 as Chairperson of the South African Radiation Protection Society.
- He was previously the moderator of Industrial Radiography examination papers at the Port Elizabeth Technikon.
- He used to be the moderator of examination modules in radiation physics at the University of the Free State and the University of Stellenbosch.
- He has more than 20 presentations at physics congresses and is the author of 18 publications in international physics journals.
- He has already presented more than 100 Radiation Safety Training Courses throughout South Africa and Africa since 2003.
- He was appointed in 2007 as the Radiation Protection Advisor for the University of Cape Town.
- He was appointed in 2007 as the advisor to the vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town on the University Radiation Protection Committee.
- He served from 2008 to 2012 on the Rules Committee of the International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA).
- He was elected in 2010 as the vice-President of the SAAPMB.
- He was from 2009 till 2016 an examiner with the College of Medicine of South Africa (CMSA) with respect to the “FC Rad Diag(SA) Part I – Physics” radiology registrar examinations.
- He assisted The Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa (COHSASA) since 2009 with audits regarding medical physics, radiation oncology, radiology and nuclear medicine services at hospitals in South Africa.
- He is a member of the SAHPRA (South African Health Products Regulatory Authority) Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) on Radiation Protection matters since 2024.
- He is currently a member of the IRPA (International Radiation Protection Association) Task Group on Radiation Protection Education and Training.
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