Profile: Dr Jens Hitzeroth

 

Dr Jens Hitzeroth grew up in Cape Town and obtained his medical degree at the University of Stellenbosch in 2001. He went on to specialise in internal medicine and subsequently completed his training in cardiology at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town 2010.

He has an interest in interventional cardiology and device implantation and is currently the Director of the Catheterisation Laboratory at Groote Schuur Hospital. He is part of the transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) program at Groote Schuur Hospital and UCT Private Academic Hospital.

He is a CASSA (Cardiac Arrhythmia Society South Africa) accredited ICD (internal cardioverter-defibrillator) practitioner since 2012.