Alex van Blydenstein is a Specialist Physician and Pulmonologist at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital. She holds an MBBCh, DCH, FCP(SA), MMed(Untamed), and CertPulm (PhysSA).

Alex is currently completing her PhD investigating COVID-19, hypoxaemia and the endothelium, and was awarded a Wits Clinical PhD program scholarship. She is a member of the School of Clinical Medicine, Graduate Studies and Research Committee Exco, and on the Internal Medicine MMed protocol assessor committee.

Alex has supervised 13 MMeds that have passed and is currently supervising 10 ongoing MMeds. She has 26 publications. Alex is passionate about research and developing local skills in this arena.