About the specialist

With a career spanning nearly 3 decades, and combining clinical medicine with computational approaches, Dr Deffur has developed a unique view of human health.

Training in medicine and internal medicine, he witnessed the dual HIV and TB epidemic in South African public hospitals. This motivated him to qualify in infectious diseases, a medical field that recently was much publicised during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In additional to working in the public and private healthcare sectors as well as overseas, Dr Deffur also spent time in academia, obtaining a PhD at UCT while working on the immunology of tuberculosis and HIV.

Qualifications

MBChB (Pretoria, 1995)

Diploma in Tropical Health (Pretoria, 1997)

MMed(IntMed) (Pretoria, 2006)

CertID(SA)Phys (Cape Town, 2010)

PhD (Cape Town, 2013)