Department of Paediatrics and Child Health
Staff
Professor Pierre Goussard
Prof Pierre Goussard is a full professor in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Heath at Stellenbosch University, and the Head of Clinical Units: Paediatric Pulmonology and Paediatric Intensive Care at Tygerberg Hospital. He is also the chair of the Tygerberg Hospital Children's Trust.
Tygerberg Hospital acts as a referral centre for complicated cases including disease like Tuberculosis, HIV, complicated pneumonia as well as complicated airway pathology and congenital lesions. He is a highly skilled and very experienced paediatric bronchoscopist, seeing 350 cases per year which includes flexible bronchoscopes and rigid bronchoscopes. He also does a large number of different interventional procedures. Together with European experts, Prof Goussard introduced the development of novel bronchoscopic diagnostic and therapeutic methods for diseases like pulmonary tuberculosis.
He is a National Research Foundation (NRF) B3-rated researcher, which includes research in airway disease due to tuberculosis and as well as new diagnostic methods using BAL in tuberculosis. He completed his PhD and has published 167 peer reviewed articles and a number of abstracts and book chapters.
He serves on the International Advisory Board of the annual International Congress on Pediatric Pulmonology (CIPP), as faculty member of the bi-annual European Respiratory Society (ERS) Skills course in paediatric bronchoscopy and is the Co-Chair of the annual Here Be Lungs Conference. He is an associate editor of the journals, BMJ Case Reports and Respiration, and serves on the editorial board of the Pediatric Respiratory Journal and African Journal of Thoracic and Critical Care Medicine.
Prof Goussard is an avid marathon runner, having completed >50 marathons, including the Paris (x4), Berlin (x2), London and Rome marathons and the ultra-marathon of Gornergrat Zermatt in Switzerland.
