Keertan Dheda MBBCh (Wits), FCP(SA), FCCP, PhD (Lond), FRCP (Lond), born in March 1969, is a Professor of Respiratory Medicine, and Head of the Division of Pulmonology at the University of Cape Town, which provides tertiary respiratory facilities to a population of 3.74 million people including for poverty-related diseases such as tuberculosis, HIV, pneumonia, and other diseases including COPD, asthma and lung cancer.
He holds a Professor of Mycobacteriology appointment at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and is a Visiting Professor at University College London.
He is a South African National Research Foundation A-rated scientist.