Ntobeko Ntusi is a cardiologist and a Professor of Medicine, the University of Cape Town (UCT) and Groote Schuur Hospital. He is currently appointed as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the South African Medical Research Council. He is a Principal Investigator based at the Cape Heart Institute, the Cape Universities Body Imaging Centre, as well as a Collaborating Investigator at the Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa. He is the Founding Director of the Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Congress of South Africa. He is an Associate Editor of Circulation, and a frequent Guest Editor of the South African Medical Journal. He has been actively engaged and contributed to improved understanding of cardiomyopathy, inflammatory heart disease, HIV-associated cardiovascular disease and heart failure in South Africa and globally.
