Dr Sarah Kraus

Sarah Kraus completed her undergraduate medical training at the University of Cape Town. She returned to Cape Town to do specialist training in Internal Medicine at Groote Schuur Hospital, graduating as a Fellow of the College of Physicians of South Africa in 2013.  In 2014, she was awarded the Helen and Morris Mauerberger Scholarship to do her PhD at the University of Cape Town. Her clinical and research interests are focused on the clinical diagnosis and management of cardiomyopathy, myocarditis and heart failure in the African setting, cardiogenetics with focus on the genetic cardiomyopathies, and cardiovascular magnetic imaging in cardiomyopathy and myocarditis. She is affiliated with the Molecular Genetic Laboratory at the Hatter Institute, University of Cape Town, where she worked in the field of cardiogenetics research. Sarah is a 2017 World Heart Federation Emerging Leader and is currently doing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Oxford.