Dr Jeremy Nel
Physician & Infectious Diseases Specialist
Jeremy graduated with an MBChB from University of the Cape Town in 2006, and thereafter specialized in internal medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he later also completed a fellowship in infectious diseases. He was awarded a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Royal College of Physicians with distinction in 2017 and recently completed a fellowship in transplant infectious diseases at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
He is an active member of the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society, and has been involved in several guidelines committees including the adult antiretroviral therapy guidelines, cryptococcal meningitis guidelines and transplant HIV guidelines. He has published research in the fields of tuberculosis, nontuberculous mycobacteria, HIV and cryptococcal meningitis.
Jeremy is a member of the South African Ministerial Advisory Council on COVID-19, and is the national co-PI of WHO’s Solidarity Therapeutics Trial in South Africa.
