BSc (Hons) (Aerospace Medicine), MB.BCh, FRCS., FRCS(Edin), FRCPS(Glasg), FCS(SA), FISS, FACS (Hon), MAMSE.
Professor Ken Boffard is a Sub-specialist in Trauma Surgery and Trauma Critical Care. He is Trauma Director and Academic Head at Milpark Hospital Academic Trauma Center, and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Surgery of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
He was President of the International Society of Surgery (ISS), the world’s oldest and largest international surgical organisation, and is currently Secretary General.
He holds Fellowships in Surgery of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England, Edinburgh, Glasgow, American College of Surgeons, and College of Surgeons of South Africa. He has been awarded Honorary Fellowships by the American College of Surgeons, The Royal College of Surgeons of Thailand, The College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka, The Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, The German Trauma Society, and Japanese Association for the Surgery of Trauma. He is an elected Member of the Academy of Master Surgical Educators of the American College of Surgeons.
He is a Colonel (Res) in the South African Military Health Service.
His interests include surgical education, Military medicine, blast and ballistic injury, trauma resuscitation and intensive care, coagulation and haemostasis, and Aviation Medicine (he is a licensed fixed wing and helicopter pilot) and scuba diving.