Dr. Tom Heller graduated from medical school in Germany in 1995. He specialized in general internal medicine, as well as in infectious diseases and worked in Germany, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa. He has been working for more than 6 years as clinical advisor with Lighthouse Trust and its network of large HIV referral level care clinics in Malawi. His special focus is on the various aspects of care of patient with advanced HIV disease, TB co-infection and other opportunistic diseases - as well the development of context-adapted trainings and training material for health care workers in HIV care.
Throughout his career, his research interests were ultrasound applications in the resource-limited setting and sonographic diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases. He developed a protocol for the diagnosis of extra-pulmonary TB in KwaZulu-Natal and conducted ultrasound trainings in various countries like Germany, Italy, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, South Africa, Ghana, Gabon, Malawi, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Peru, and Laos.
