Straight from the heart — Professor Karen Sliwa-Hahnle’s cardiac care crusade
Daily Maverick | 29.09.2026 06:40
This World Heart Day, Daily Maverick sat down with cardiologist Professor Karen Sliwa-Hahnle who has 872 publications (550 of those peer-reviewed) in the cardiovascular field – the most prolific on the subject on the continent. She is a professor of cardiology at the Department of Medicine at Groote Schuur Hospital, and the Director of the Cape Heart Institute at the University of Cape Town.