Michelle Venter is an Infectious Diseases Physician based at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in Soweto, Johannesburg.
She qualified as a medical doctor at Wits University in 2007, and completed both her internship and community service training at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital. She then specialised as an adult Physician, and subspecialised as an Infectious Diseases Physician at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital. She then returned to Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital to work full-time in the Division of Infectious Diseases. She is the head of the TB program at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital.
She is an Arthur Ashe fellow and has research interests in the gut microbiome, antimicrobial stewardship and the interaction of the innate immune system and infectious diseases.
