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Prof Ruchika Meel is a general cardiologist and Head of echocardiography laboratory at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital with interest in valvular heart disease and cardiovascular imaging. She has a passionate interest in research with to date 1 book publication, four book chapters and 32 original research articles and over 50 congress presentations. She is a executive member of the Cardiac Imaging Society of South Africa and has recently actively participated in providing cardiac imaging guidelines in patients with COVID-19. She is a Fellow of the European association of cardiovascular imaging. She has received multiple awards for conference presentations and was the recipient of Carnegie doctoral and post-doctoral awards and is part of the emerging clinician scientist cohort in South Africa. Most recently, she was awarded the prestigious TH Bothwell research prize in Internal Medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand school of clinical medicine annual awards ceremony.
