Helmuth Reuter is a South African professor of internal medicine and clinical pharmacology. He is currently the Head of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Stellenbosch. Prior to this, he was the director of the Winelands Rheumatology and Winelands Medical Research Centres in Stellenbosch.
He studied medicine at the University of Stellenbosch and specialised thereafter in internal medicine, cardiology, rheumatology and infectious diseases spending time in London, Cambridge, Paris and Washington. His PhD was on the pathogenesis, diagnosis and management of large pericardial effusions allowing research in the fields of HIV, tuberculosis, connective tissue diseases and cardiology.
He is a member of the American Academy of Science, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and a former winner of the MM Suzman medal for the best candidate in the FCP internal medicine examination.
His main research interests are the therapeutic management of SLE, inflammatory arthritides and the optimisation of anti-tuberculous therapies in adults and children. His research includes community-based intervention studies, randomised clinical trials, clinical and laboratory-based drug-drug interaction studies and pharmacokinetic studies.
He has authored or co-authored more than 70 peer-reviewed publications, 6 chapters in books and he has contributed as a speaker at many national and international conferences.