Prof André is a Paediatrician and Paediatric Pulmonologist with a special interest in clinical immunology. He previously served as Chairperson of the Allergy Society of South Africa (ALLSA) and currently leads the ALLSA Primary Immune Deficiency Diseases Interest Group (PIDDSA). He also helped to establish the Allergy and Clinical Immunology Foundation of South Africa (AFSA) as one of its founding members. Although much of his career has been in private practice, André has always stayed closely involved in academic medicine. He played a key role in setting up the clinical service for primary immunodeficiency diseases at the University of Pretoria, where he was awarded an extraordinary professorship while consulting part-time. He returned to full-time academic work and now holds the University of Pretoria–Ampath Chair for Inborn Errors of Immunity and Allergology. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics and an Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Immunology at the University of Pretoria. André was recently elected to the boards of the African Society for Immunodeficiencies (ASID) and the South African Immunology Society (SAIS).