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Associate Professor Ruchika Meel

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa)

Member of:

European Society of Cardiology

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.

Spectrum of ascending aortic aneurysms at a peri urban tertiary hospital: an echocardiography-based study

Event: EACVI 2023

Topic: Tissue Doppler, Speckle Tracking and Strain Imaging

Session: ePosters

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Infective endocarditis and intravenous drug use: challenges in diagnosis and treatment.

Event: ESC Congress 2022

Topic: Imaging of Valvular Heart Disease

Session: Meet the Experts: how to overcome diagnostic challenges in endocarditis

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Comparison of cardiac magnetic resonance and echocardiography for evaluation of mitral regurgitation severity in patients with rheumatic heart disease

Event: EuroEcho-Imaging 2016

Topic: Primary mitral regurgitation

Session: HIT Poster session 3

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