Cathy Cluver

Professor Cathy Cluver is a Maternal-Fetal Medicine subspecialist and clinician researcher. She founded and continues to lead the Preeclampsia Research Unit at Stellenbosch University (www.preeclampsiaresearch.org). The Preeclampsia Research Unit is a multidisciplinary multinational research collaboration focussing on understanding and treating preeclampsia. Cathy is currently running her third double blind interventional treatment trial for preterm preeclampsia and is setting up a large multicentre preeclampsia prevention trial. Cathy obtained her MMed in 2011 cum laude and was awarded both the Daubenton Medal for outstanding results in the Fellowship examination of the College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the medal for the Best Postgraduate Student for a Structures Masters Qualification at Stellenbosch University. In 2013 she undertook a Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellowship at Mercy Hospital for Women, in Melbourne Australia. She then completed her subspecialist training in South Africa in 2016. After completing her PhD in 2019, she was appointed as an associate professor. In 2023 she was appointed as a full professor at Stellenbosch University. She is the youngest appointed professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. She has over 90 publications including publications in the Lancet, BMJ, Lancet Global and Cochrane Library. She has published extensively in leading Obstetrics and Gynaecological journals including the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gyneacology. She has presented invited plenary sessions at both international and national conferences.