AstraZeneca Education Hub: Endocrinology Meets Cardiology: Simplifying Heart Failure management in Type 2 Diabetes
Wednesday, August 21, 2024 |
1:20 PM - 2:05 PM |
Education Hub - Theatrette 1 |
Speaker
Athula Karu
Perth Cardiology Institute
Endocrinology Meets Cardiology: Simplifying Heart Failure management in Type 2 Diabetes
1:25 PM - 2:05 PMBiography
Dr Athula Karu is an expert in general cardiology including the assessment and management of chest pain, hypertension, assessment of arrhythmias and preventative cardiology. His fields of expertise are echocardiography (including stress and transoesophageal echocardiography), perioperative cardiac assessment and management of high risk perioperative cardiac care. Athula is a Consultant Cardiologist at Joondalup Health Campus, the Mount Hospital, and Hollywood Specialist Centre. He is also the Director of Physician Education in Medicine and a visiting consultant at the high risk perioperative cardiac assessment clinic at the Royal Perth Hospital.
Dr Joey Kaye
Endocrinologist
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
Endocrinology Meets Cardiology: Simplifying Heart Failure management in Type 2 Diabetes
1:20 PM - 1:25 PMBiography
Dr Kaye is a consultant endocrinologist and Director of Diabetes Services at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. He completed his diabetes and endocrinology advanced training in WA before undertaking a PhD in stress neuroendocrinology at the Henry Wellcome Laboratories for Integrative Neuroscience and Endocrinology, Bristol, UK. Dr Kaye is the vice chair of Diabetes Research WA, a board member of Type 1 Diabetes Family Centre and The Keogh Institute for Medical Research. He is a clinical senior lecturer at the University of Western Australia and has over 15 years’ experience in private practice in Perth. Dr Kaye’s special interest is with people living with Type 1 diabetes and diabetes technology including continuous glucose monitors, insulin pumps and automated insulin delivery systems.