Cape Town University Hospital

Through the work of the division at these tertiary hospitals, the full spectrum of pathology at the levels of both the developed world and the developing world is experienced.

The division provides a comprehensive ENT service to state patients and to private patients at the University of Cape Town Private Academic Hospital. The various subspecialties within the division of Otolaryngology include Head and Neck Oncology, Rhinology and anterior skull base surgery, Otology, Neuro-Otology and lateral skull base surgery and Paediatric Otolaryngology. More recently the division has expanded to include transorbital surgery, cochlear implantation and paediatric laryngotracheal reconstruction. 

Prof. Dr. Hofmeyr, who represents the HEARRING Group, is a member of the South African Society of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery and The South African Cochlear Implant Group. He is a founder member and director of Cape Hearing Implants, a non-profit company specialising in implantable hearing devices. He is also currently the only surgeon in South Africa who performs middle cranial fossa temporal bone surgery. He was Head of the ENT Department and the Chief ENT Surgeon of the South African National Defense Force in the past. The collaboration between Prof. Dr. Luis Hofmeyr and Dr. Tasneem Harris, who is an ENT surgeon, is very important, since it allows the two experts to provide the implants as well as the training at the Groote Schuur Hospital.