Aletta E. "Alta" Schutte is a hypertension and heart disease expert based in Sydney, Australia.
She is a SHARP Professor and Principal Theme Lead of Cardiac, Vascular and Metabolic Medicine at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, with a joint appointment as Professorial Fellow at the George Institute for Global Health.
She did her Doctorate at the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education in Cardiovascular Physiology.
[5] Since moving to Australia in 2020, she has taken on leadership roles to improve blood pressure control in the country and internationally, and has been successful as Chief Investigator with several funding schemes (e.g. CIA of an Investigator Leadership Grant and Synergy Grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, and clinical trial grants from the Medical Research Future Fund of Australia).
[6] In 2024 she received the Fiona Stanley Synergy Grant award from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia for the highest-ranked Synergy grant awarded (AU$5 million).