Dr Pieter van der Bijl
Cardiologist
MBChB
(Stellenbosch University)
DA (SA)
(College of Anaesthetics, CMSA)
MMed (Internal Medicine)
(Stellenbosch University)
FCP (SA)
(College of Physicians, CMSA)
Cert Cardiology (SA) Phys
(College of Physicians, CMSA)
Accreditation for Cardiac Computed Tomography
(British Society of Cardiovascular Imaging / British Society of Cardiac Computed Tomography)
Certification for Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging)
PhD in Medicine (Cardiology)
(Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Areas of Expertise
Cardiac MRI, including stress CMR
Cardiac CT
Interventional cardiology
Cardiac pacing
Echocardiography, including transthoracic, transoesophageal and stress echocardiography, as well as 3D and strain imaging
Biography
Dr Pieter van der Bijl earned his medical degree cum laude in 2005 from Stellenbosch University, and was admitted to the College of Physicians of South Africa in 2011 as a Fellow/specialist physician. In 2012, he commenced training as a cardiologist in the Division of Cardiology at Stellenbosch University, and subsequently qualified with the Certificate in Cardiology from the College of Physicians of South Africa in 2014.
After a year of working as a cardiologist at SA Endovascular, he embarked on a Cardiac Imaging Fellowship and a PhD in Cardiac Imaging (awarded in 2020) at Leiden University Medical Centre in The Netherlands, under the supervision of the renowned Prof. Jeroen J. Bax. Dr van der Bijl provides an advanced echocardiography service to the practice, e.g. stress echocardiography, three-dimensional (3D) and strain imaging.
He collaborates closely with radiologists to provide a comprehensive, multimodality cardiac imaging service to the patients of SA Endovascular. Dr Van der Bijl has a dedicated research interest, and has authored numerous scientific articles and book chapters, and regularly acts as a peer-reviewer for cardiology journals.