Board Executive

Director of Monash Heart.
Director of Victorian Heart Institute, Monash University.
Prof Stephen Nicholls
President
Academic Director of the Westmead Applied Research Centre.
Clinical Lead, Community Based Cardiac Services at Westmead Hospital.
Prof Clara Chow AM
Immediate Past President
Cardiologist, Middlemore Hospital. Clinical Lead, Northern Region Cardiac Clinical Network.
Dr Mayanna Lund
Honorary Secretary
Senior Cardiologist at Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital, Brisbane QLD.
Adj/Prof QUT’s Institute Health and Biomedical Innovation and Senior Lecturer at UQ Medicine.
Prof William Parsonage
Honorary Asst Secretary/TreasurerCommittee Chairs

Head of Unit of Cardiology at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and at the University of Adelaide.
A/Prof Matthew Worthley
Advanced Training Committee
Director of Cardiology Joondalup Health Campus and Adjunct Clinical
Professor of Health Sciences, Curtin University, WA.
Prof Jenny Deague
Education Committee
A/Prof IMPACCT – Improving Palliative, Aged and Chronic Care through Clinical Research and Translation, Faculty of Health, UTS.
Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellow.
Prof Sally Inglis
Professional and Ethical Standards Committee
Cardiologist, Department of Cardiology, Royal Melbourne Hospital A/Prof, Department of Medicine RMH, University of Melbourne.
A/Prof Dominica Zentner
Quality Standards Committee
Director of Cardiac EP, Waikato Hospital.
A/Prof, University of Auckland.
A/Prof Martin Stiles
Scientific CommitteeAppointed Members

Clinical Prof University of Sydney
Consultant Cardiologist, RPAH and Alfred Cardiology
Consultant in Cardiovascular MRI, RPAH, CHW, SMRI.
Prof Rajesh Puranik
Clinical Practice Advisor
Chief Medical Advisor, Heart Foundation of Australia.
Senior Director, Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute.
Prof Garry Jennings AO
Heart Foundation Representative
Head, Cardiology, Middlemore Hospital, Counties Manukau District Health Board.
Past Chair of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians NZ Specialist Advisory Committee.
Dr Selwyn Wong
NZ Regional Committee Chair
Head of Cardiothoracic Surgery & Staff Specialist, Royal Hobart Hospital
Clinical Associate Professor, Tasmanian school of Medicine, UTAS.
Dr Ashutosh Hardikar
Surgical RepresentativeCouncil Chairs

Senior Research Fellow in Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology, UWA.
National Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellow.
Dr Lee Nedkoff
Allied Health, Science and Technology Council
Cardiologist Director of Echocardiography, The Prince Charles Hospital.
Professor of Medicine, University of Queensland.
Prof Gregory Scalia
Cardiac Imaging Council
Associate Professor & NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow,
University of Wollongong and Western Sydney Local Health District.
A/Prof Caleb Ferguson
Cardiovascular Nursing Council
Head of Department, Heart Rhythm at Royal Melbourne Hospital.
Professor of Medicine at the University of Melbourne.
Prof Jonathan Kalman AO
Heart Rhythm Council
Interventional Cardiologist at Liverpool Hospital.
Dr Sidney Lo
Interventional Council
Director, Cardiology, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne.
Group Leader Heart Research, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute.
A/Prof Michael Cheung
Paediatric and Congenital CouncilElected Representatives

Conjoint Prof, University of Sydney and Adjunct Prof, UNSW.
Clinical Lead for non invasive cardiac imaging at Westmead Hospital and senior staff specialist.
Prof Liza Thomas
NSW Elected Member
Cardiologist at GenesisCare.
Senior Visiting Cardiologist – Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital.
Dr David Cross
QLD Elected Member
Director & Cardiologist Western HeartCare, Western Community Hospital and Academic Cardiologist,
University of Adelaide.
Dr Alicia Chan
SA Elected Board Member
Director of Cardiology Department, Royal Hobart Hospital.
Research Associate, Menzies Institute for Medical Research.
Dr Nathan Dwyer
TAS Elected Board Member
Cardiologist, Department of Cardiology, Royal Melbourne Hospital
A/Prof, Department of Medicine RMH, University of Melbourne.
A/Prof Dominica Zentner
VIC Elected Board Member
Interventional Cardiologist.
Head of Cardiology at Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth.
Dr James Rankin
WA Elected Board Member
Cardiologist, Middlemore Hospital. Clinical Lead, Northern Region Cardiac Clinical Network.