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Andreas Henri Diacon is a specialist physician holding qualifications for Internal Medicine and Pulmonology (Lung Diseases) in Switzerland and South Africa. He emigrated to South Africa in 2000 to become a research fellow with the Lung Unit of the Department of Internal Medicine and completed his PhD thesis at the University of Stellenbosch in 2007.
He joined the Department of Biomedical Sciences in 2008 as Associate Professor with the Division of Medical Physiology and consultant for Internal Medicine, Pulmonology and Intensive Care at Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town.
His clinical research interest is the evaluation of antituberculous agents and treatment regimens. He is the director of the Centre of Clinical Tuberculosis Research (CCTR) at the DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Tuberculosis Research (Director: Prof Paul van Helden). This activity encompasses the supervision and coordination of clinical trials in the departmental MRC laboratory and the development of techniques for the evaluation of antituberculosis agents. Prof Diacon is also involved in research programs in exercise physiology, interventional pulmonology and pleural disease.
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