SpeakersRon Dick.jpg Organisation: Epworth HealthCare Position: Cardiologist and Director, Cardiac Sciences Clinical Institute Associate Professor Ron Dick is the Director of Cardiac Services Clinical Institute at Epworth HealthCare and the former Chair of Epworth’s Group Medical Advisory Council.
Prof David Mc Giffin Photo - cropped Organisation: Alfred Health Position: Director, Cardiothoracic Surgery & Transplantation Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Monash University Special interests: Heart transplantation, lung transplantation, pulmonary endarterectomy for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, mechanical circulatory support Peter Mossop.jpg Organisation: St Vincent's Hospital Position: Vascular Interventionalist Special interests: Aortic and Neurovascular pathologies with a focus on novel device development from concept to commercialisation. Ian Nixon Photo.jpg Organisation: St Vincent's Hospital Position: Cardiac Surgeon Special interests: aortic surgery especially acute and chronic aortic dissection, endovascular surgery, mitral and aortic valve repair and arterial revascularisation. Prof Stephen Worthley Photo.jpg Organisation: Royal Adelaide Hospital Position: Helpman Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine Prof. Stephen Worthley graduated from Medicine at the Adelaide University, South Australia. His training included his Cardiology fellowship at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, his PhD at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, and post-doctoral research and interventional fellowship at Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne. He established the first dedicated Cardiac CT and MR units in the Asia Pacific region, as well as leading the Cardiovascular Research Centre at the University of Adelaide as the Helpman Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, a position he has held since 2004. He has published over 180 manuscripts, 5 book chapters, and co-edited a Cardiovascular Textbook. He leads a number of novel international multi-centre cardiovascular therapy trials, and his clinical and research expertise spans natriuretic peptide and stem cell therapies though to transcatheter valve implantation and renal artery denervation therapy. He sits on numerous industry advisory boards, journal editorial boards and government advisory groups. He is internationally renowned for his interventional and imaging academic output, and early development programs for novel therapies in cardiovascular disease. He has run numerous first in human interventional trials for novel devices, including novel coronary stent designs and renal artery denervation. Brian Buxton.jpg Organisation: Epworth Research Institute Position: Cardiac Surgery Consultant Professor of Cardiac Surgery, University of Melbourne Professor Brian Buxton has a long and distinguished career in cardiac surgery and associated research after training with Denton Cooley. Brian has extensive international experience having practised in Asia, New Guinea, Port Moresby, Bien Hoa US Airbase during the Vietnam War, Scotland, USA and Australia. ac.JPG Organisation: Epworth HealthCare Position: Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist Dr Catanchin is a heart rhythm specialist, performing catheter ablation for arrhythmias as well as pacemaker/ICD implants. His specific interests are in atrial fibrillation ablation (radiofrequency and cryoablation) and anticoagulation (NOACs) and he is involved in clinical trials and regular education in these areas. W Chan - 15072015.jpg Organisation: Epworth HealthCare Position: Consultant and Interventional Cardiologist, Clinical Investigator Dr. William Chan's public appointments are based at the Alfred, Western and Sunshine Hospitals, where he works as a consultant cardiologist with close affiliation to the BakerIDI Heart and Diabetes Institute. He was the recipient of the NHMRC Early Career Fellowship. Nic Cox.jpg Organisation: Epworth HealthCare Position: Cardiologist
Associate Professor Cox is an interventional cardiologist with experience in managing patients with coronary disease, heart attacks and chest pain. Nicholas was an early advocate for the use of radial access for coronary intervention and has published in this field. His areas of expertise are coronary angiography, stenting, myocardial infarction and heart failure management.
HAYWARD, P - UNCONFIRMED 05092013.jpg Organisation: Epworth HealthCare Position: Cardiothoracic Surgeon Senior Fellow, University of Melbourne JHuntSmith Photo.jpg Organisation: Epworth HealthCare Position: Director, Intensive Care Unit Fellowship Examiner, College of Intensive Care Medicine Senior Lecturer and Clinical Sub-Dean, Melbourne University Special interests: Critical care medicine, emergency medicine, education and training, anaesthesia Marco Larobina.PNG Organisation: Epworth HealthCare and Royal Melbourne Hospital Position: Cardiothoracic Surgeon Mr Marco Larobina is a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at the Epworth Richmond Hospital, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne Private Hospital, and One Heart Cardiology. He has a special interest in adult cardiac surgery, minimally invasive surgery, adult congenital heart disease, thoracic surgery, and aortic valve surgery. He completed his training at the Alfred Hospital, Royal Melbourne Hospital, and Royal Children’s Hospital. Following this, Marco completed a Fellowship at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston and obtained his Fellowship from Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. disease.
Yean Lim.jpg Organisation: Epworth HealthCare Position: Cardiologist Professor Lim graduated from Monash University with the degrees of BMedSc, MBBS and PhD. He is a leading cardiologist in the Asia Pacific region, serving as the Director of National Heart Centre and Chairman of National Medical Research Council in Singapore for 5 years. Prof. Lim pioneered coronary intervention in China in 1986, and helped to establish numerous coronary intervention units throughout China. In 1995 he founded the Xiamen University Medical College and was appointed its inaugural Dean for a five-year term. dr-george-proimos.jpg Organisation: Epworth HealthCare Position: Cardiologist George is an interventional cardiologist, primarily based at Epworth Richmond but sees patients at the Austin Medical Centre and Box Hill Hospital. He obtained his medical degree at Melbourne University and his cardiology training was at the Austin & Repatriation hospital. He has developed a strong interest in training up and coming cardiologists as well as being involved in research activities at both hospitals. D Rollo pic- 2015-10-15 - 885.jpg Organisation: Epworth HealthCare Position: Cardiologist Dr David Rollo is a cardiologist with Epworth HealthCare. His special interests are the way in which doctors think and how they communicate risk. He has particular interest in Bayesian reasoning, and in the disconnect between cognitive conceptualisation and behavioural change. Photo - Mr Peter Skillington.jpg Organisation: Epworth HealthCare Position: Cardiothorarcic Surgeon Mr Peter Skillington is a specialist cardiothoracic surgeon. He also performs routine coronary artery bypass graft, heart valve and aortic surgery. He is Director of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Unit of the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Deputy Director of the Cardiac Sciences Clinical Institute, Epworth Hospital. His chief research and clinical interests are aortic valve replacement utilising the ROSS procedure, for which he is a world expert, an operation which he has pioneered in this country. His other main area of interest is in adult congenital cardiac surgery, an area in which he has performed over 900 congenital cardiac surgery procedures since the 1990s. He has previously been President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons (ANZSCTS), and also he has been Chairman of the Board of Studies for Cardiothoracic Surgery Training in Australia and New Zealand (RACS).
. SPARKS, P - CONFIRMED headshot 12092013.JPG Organisation: Epworth HealthCare Position: Director of Electrophysiology Dr Paul Sparks is the Director of Electrophysiology at Epworth HealthCare and also holds an appointment as Cardiologist & Electrophysiologist at The Royal Melbourne Hospital. He completed his MBBS at Melbourne University in 1988 and attained his FRACP in 1996. Paul completed a PhD in 1998 in cardiac electrophysiology. His post doctorate studies were at the University of California, San Francisco, USA from 1998-2000. Paul has also received a number of prestigious awards including the Young Investigator Award in Research for The North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology in 1998, The Ralph Reader Prize for The Cardiac Society of Australia & New Zealand in 1998 and the Premiers Award for Medical Research in 2000. He is actively engaged in clinical arrhythmia research at Royal Melbourne Hospital with an emphasis on atrial fibrillation, stroke prevention and the effects of Omega-3 fatty acids on the heart. He is currently running studies analysing sudden arrhythmic death in epilepsy (SUDEP) and attenuated approaches to ablation of paroxysmal AF. He is responsible also for the clinical supervision and training of other electrophysiologists and PhD candidates. Paul speaks fluent Italian. Prof-Piyush-Srivastava.jpg Organisation: Epworth HealthCare Position: Cardiologist A/Prof Piyush Srivastava Piyush trained in cardiology at Austin Health, with further subspecialty training in noninvasive cardiac imaging . He is an Associate Professor ( Clinical) at the University of Melbourne. Piyush is a general cardiologist with public appointments at Austin Hospital. His private practice is based at Epworth Richmond and Balwyn. Piyush's areas of special interest and ongoing research include valvular heart disease, heart failure, diabetic cardiovascular disease, cardio oncology and all aspects of noninvasive cardiac imaging including stress, transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography as well as cardiac MRI/CT.
Neil Strathmore.png Organisation: Epworth Hosptal Position: Cardiologist Associate Professor Neil Strathmore has expertise in pacemaker & defibrillator implantation, follow up and removal. However, he is also interested in arrhythmias, valve problems, heart failure and general cardiology. He is widely recognised as a leading teacher of medical students. WALTON, Tony - CONFIRMED 14082014.jpg Organisation: Epworth HealthCare Position: Interventional Cardiologist Prof Antony Walton is an Interventional Cardiologist based at Epworth Hospital, and is a Professor in Medicine at Monash University. He is Deputy Director of Cardiology and Head of the Cardiac Labs at The Alfred, and is an Honorary Research Fellow at The Baker Institute. His training in Cardiology was at the Alfred Hospital and further postgraduate training in Interventional Cardiology was undertaken at Stanford University Medical Centre in the United States. His professional interests include general and interventional cardiology, with particular interests in structural heart disease and hypertension. The developing areas of percutaneous valve replacement and interventional techniques for the treatment of common conditions such as hypertension are particular interests. He has published his clinical and research work in peer reviewed manuscripts on subjects including the novel techniques of percutaneous aortic valve replacement and renal denervation for refractory hypertension.
Michael Yii.JPG Organisation: Epworth HealthCare Position: Cardiothoracic Surgeon Mr Michael Yii is a senior cardiothoracic surgeon at Epworth Eastern Hospital and St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, with special interest in arrhythmia surgery and clinical trials. He established the concomitant AF program at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne in 2001 and more recently the Totally Thoracoscopic Epicardial AF Ablation programme for Standalone AF at Epworth Eastern. |
