{"entity":{"id":"shaheem-de-vries","kind":"person","name":"Shaheem de Vries","aka":[],"tldr":"Emergency physician and health manager who was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Groote Schuur Hospital, the University of Cape Town's main teaching hospital, in February 2024.","summary":"Shaheem de Vries is Chief Executive Officer of Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, the tertiary teaching hospital of the University of Cape Town's Faculty of Health Sciences. He took up the post on 1 February 2024, succeeding Bhavna Patel, after ten years as head of Western Cape Government Health Emergency Medical Services and some twenty years in emergency medicine; he holds a medical degree and an MBA from the University of Cape Town. The hospital's own website and the Western Cape Government hospital pages could not be reached when this record was checked, so the role is recorded from the dated appointment report in Spotlight and should be re-checked.","asOf":"2026-09-10","links":[{"label":"Source: Spotlight report on his appointment as Groote Schuur CEO (25 April 2024)","url":"https://www.spotlightnsp.co.za/2024/04/25/dr-shaheem-de-vries-comfortable-with-chaos-head-cowboy-takes-charge-of-groote-schuur-hospital/"}],"tags":["leadership","hospital-management"],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["groote-schuur-uct"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"role":"Chief Executive Officer, Groote Schuur Hospital","institutionId":"groote-schuur-uct","specialisms":["Emergency medicine","Hospital management","Health system leadership"],"profiles":[{"label":"Spotlight appointment profile (April 2024)","url":"https://www.spotlightnsp.co.za/2024/04/25/dr-shaheem-de-vries-comfortable-with-chaos-head-cowboy-takes-charge-of-groote-schuur-hospital/"}],"papers":[],"orcid":"0000-0003-3986-1652"},"route":"/people/shaheem-de-vries/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"groote-schuur-uct","kind":"institution","name":"Groote Schuur Hospital / University of Cape Town","route":"/institutions/groote-schuur-uct/"}]}}