Specialty: Echocardiolography, Imaging, Interventional Cardiology, ACHD
Dr. Blanche Cupido is a consultant adult cardiologist practicing general, imaging and interventional cardiology and has a special interest in congenital heart disease, cardiac imaging and valvular heart disease, in Cape Town, South Africa.
She graduated from the University of Cape Town in 2001 and after completing her internship and community service, she embarked on her physician and subsequent cardiology training, which she completed in 2013. In 2016, she spent a year doing a post-graduate fellowship in Adult Congenital Heart Disease in Leeds, UK. In 2017, she also completed a certificate in advanced heart failure management from the University of Zurich and the European Cardiac Academy.
She returned to Groote Schuur Hospital , Cape Town to establish a dedicated Adult Congenital Heart Disease unit and currently works at Groote Schuur Hospital and UCT Private Academic Hospital as the Head of Echocardiography and the Clinical Lead for Adult Congenital Heart Disease. Apart from running these clinical services, she is involved in the training of cardiology fellows, as well as research. Her long-term goal is to improve the current training opportunities for cardiology fellows in South Africa and eventually to the rest of Africa. Furthermore, she wishes to establish an increased competence in the field of Adult Congenital Heart Disease in Africa.
She is currently the President elect for SA Heart (the National Cardiac Society of South Africa) as well as the Deputy Ambassador for the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Global Affairs Committee in Africa.