Liesl Zühlke

Summary

Liesl Johanna Zühlke is the Vice-President of the South African Medical Research Council, Extramural Research and Internal Portfolio. She is a South African paediatric cardiologist who specialises in paediatric and rheumatic heart disease. She works at the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital and Groote Schuur Hospital, and was the first woman in her country to be appointed as a full professor in paediatric cardiology. Her husband, Alexander Zühlke, is a plastic surgeon, and they have two sons, Gabriel and Eli.