Profile: Prof Ntobeko Ntusi
Professor Ntobeko Ntusi is the Head and Chair of Medicine and Clinical Lead for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa. He obtained a B.Sc(hons) degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology from Haverford College, USA, and an MB.ChB degree from UCT, before completing a fellowship in Internal Medicine through the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa. He served his internship and later worked as a community service medical officer and senior house officer at Frere Hospital in East London, South Africa. He read for a D.Phil in Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford, and completed his MD in Cardiology at UCT. He is a qualified cardiologist, through the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa. He has been actively engaged and contributed to improved understanding of cardiomyopathy, inflammatory heart disease and heart failure in South Africa and abroad; and brings expertise, commitment and enthusiasm in his quest to further the mission of the HeFSSA.
