Shrikant Maurice Peters is a medical doctor from Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. As a Council member of the South African College of Public Health Medicine, he is responsible for advancing the professionalization of medical management, both in South Africa and throughout the wider continent. He completed his junior years of internship, community service and medical officer time in primary and district hospital rotations in the major metropolitan cities of Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town. After developing a keen interest in health systems management and strategic planning, he completed residency training and qualified as a Public Health Physician in 2019. He has previously been Medical Manager of Peri-Operative Care, Critical Care and Transplant Services at Groote Schuur Hospital, and is now Chief Clinical Information Officer at the facility. As an honorary lecturer in Public Health Medicine at the University of Cape Town.
