Bio Dr Cherese Lapere

Anaesthetist

Cape Town, South Africa

Sessional consultant: Red Cross War Memorial’s Children’s Hospital

Independent consultant in Cape Town’s Southern Suburbs.

Cherese started her sedation journey as a mobile, travelling sedation provider in 2010 and managed a private and sessional state practice for 5years in Cape Town. Being a keen academic, she decided to specialise in Anaesthesia and further her studies in the Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine at the University of Cape Town where she completed her Masters in Medicine cum laude.

Cherese is currently in private practice in the leavy green Southern Suburbs of Cape Town. She is also a sessional consultant at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and sees the opportunity of service delivery to the people of the Western Cape as a privilege.

Her passion is to grow the provision of ‘anaesthesia without walls”, teaching and training of sedation techniques and to promote safety in procedural sedation in South Africa, and beyond. Other interests involve TCI techniques and regional anaesthesia.

There are never enough minutes in any day as she loves being with her family and young children, running and hiking. Cherese is also a qualified Pâtissier and loves to wear a different hat and be a baker.