Prof Ntobeko Ntusi

Head: Department of Medicine

BSc(hons), MBChB, DPhi,l MD, FRCP, FRSSA

CHI research group: Cardiac Imaging and Inflammation (Lead)
CHI membership: Full member

Ntobeko Ntusi is a cardiologist and a Professor of Medicine, and is the Chair and Head of Medicine at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH); and is the Clinical Lead for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) at UCT and GSH. He is a Principal Investigator at the CHI's Cardiac Imaging and Inflammation research group and the Cape Universities Body Imaging Centre (CUBIC) and a Collaborating Investigator at The Wellcome Trust Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa. He is the Editor in Chief of the South African Heart Journal and serves as Associate Editor for Circulation and BMC Medical Imaging. He has been actively engaged and contributed to an improved understanding of cardiomyopathy, inflammatory heart disease and heart failure in South Africa and globally.

Research engagements:

  • Heart failure and cardiomyopathy
  • Resistant hypertension
  • Inflammatory heart disease
  • Advanced cardiovascular imaging
  • Molecular cardiology and immunology