Associate Professor
Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Associate Professor Catherine Cluver (MBChB, FCOG, MMed, Cert MFM, PhD) is a Maternal-Fetal Medicine subspecialist based at Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa. She leads the Preeclampsia Research Unit at Tygerberg Hospital working closely with local and international collaborators from Australia and Sweden.
She qualified as an Obstetrician-Gynaecologist cum Laude in 2011 and was awarded the Daubenton Medal for outstanding results in the Fellowship examination of the College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of South Africa and the medal for the Best Postgraduate Student for a Structures Masters Qualification at Stellenbosch University. She completed her Certificate in Maternal-Fetal Medicine in 2016, after completing a year’s fellowship training in Melbourne, Australia. She completed her PhD in 2019 and was appointed as an Associate Professor at Stellenbosch University in 2020.
Her unit has completed two treatment trials for preterm preeclampsia (Preeclampsia Intervention with Esomeprazole trial (PIE) and the Preeclampsia intervention trial with MEtformin trial (PI2) and manages the PReclampsia Obstetric adVerse Event (PROVE) Biobank.