ASSOCIATE Professor BLANCHE CUPIDO

She completed her undergraduate medical degree at UCT in 2001 and subsequently specialized in internal medicine (2009) and cardiology (2013). In 2016, she did a fellowship in Adult Congenital Heart Disease in Leeds, UK and Certificate in Advanced Heart Failure Management from the University of Zurich and the ESC Academy.

She currently works at Groote Schuur Hospital and UCT Private Academic Hospital as the Head of Echocardiography and the Clinical Lead for Adult Congenital Heart Disease. In 2020, she was elected as one of the Inaugural winners of the Women as One Escalator award. She is a Fellow to the American College of Cardiology and a Fellow to the European Society of Cardiology.

Prof Cupido is involved with education at undergraduate, postgraduate, regional, national and international level and has previously been elected as a TAU (Teaching Advancements in Universities) Fellow in South Africa. She serves on the executive board the International Society of Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ISACHD), has been appointed as the Associate Editor- in-Chief for the CHiP (Congenital Heart International Professionals) Network. She is also the past-president of the South African Heart Association (SA Heart).