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Prof Koto has over 30 years experience in laparoscopic surgery and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">hosted numerous laparoscopic workshops in South Africa and abroad. He performed the first\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">laparoscopic aorto-bifemoral bypass graft in South Africa. He has been the main driver of\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Laparoscopy in trauma and has published widely in this regard.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Prof Koto is passionate teacher for both undergraduate and post graduate students and has<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">received numerous awards. He has taught generations of students over the years\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He is a member of several professional bodies and has held senior positions in some of them\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To name but a few:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SASES<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ASSA<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">HIG<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SAGES<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Surgicom<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">EAS<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Prof Koto has served as an external examiner for the West African Association of Surgeons)\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">WACS and College of Surgeons of South, East, and Central African College of Surgeons\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(Cosecsa)<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof Zach Koto Prof Zach Koto is a fellow of the College of Surgeons of South Africa, Fellow of the\u00a0American College of Surgeons, Certificate in Surgical Gastroenterology (CMSA); PhD in\u00a0Surgery from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal\u00a0He is the current chair of Surgery at SMU, Head of Unit of Upper GIT, Bariatric Surgery and\u00a0minimal access Visceral &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/uzicss.uz.ac.zw\/index.php\/prof-zach-koto-2\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prof Zach Koto<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1899","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uzicss.uz.ac.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uzicss.uz.ac.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uzicss.uz.ac.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uzicss.uz.ac.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uzicss.uz.ac.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/uzicss.uz.ac.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1903,"href":"https:\/\/uzicss.uz.ac.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1899\/revisions\/1903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uzicss.uz.ac.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}