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Paediatrics / Adult Congenital: Heart failure and transplant across the lifespan

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Paediatrics / Adult Congenital
Saturday, August 3, 2024
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Meeting Room 7

Speaker

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Dr Robert Weintraub
Cardiologist
Royal Children's Hospital

Lessons learned from negative paediatric heart failure trials

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Biography

Dr Weintraub graduated from Sydney University and trained in Paediatrics at the Prince of Wales Children’s Hospital. He trained in Cardiology at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, and then worked as a consultant at Harefield Hospital in the UK, and was a National Heart Foundation research fellow at the UCSD Medical Center in San Diego. He returned to the Royal Children’s Hospital in 1992, where he is the lead clinician for the heart transplant and pulmonary hypertension services.
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Dr Jacob Mathew
Cardiologist
Royal Children's Hospital

Durable circulatory support options in paediatrics

1:45 PM - 2:00 PM

Biography

Dr Mathew is a paediatric cardiologist sub-specialising in the management of patients with cardiomyopathy, heart failure, and those needing ventricular assist device support or cardiac transplantation. He is the medical lead for the ventricular assist device program at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne.
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Assoc Prof Kavitha Muthiah
Staff Specialist - Cardiology
St Vincent's Hospital

Heart transplant after DCD – the Australian experience

2:00 PM - 2:15 PM

Biography

Associate Professor Kavitha Muthiah is a clinical and academic cardiologist specialising in Advanced Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support and Heart Transplant at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney with conjoint appointments at UNSW and the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute. She is current council representative for Transplant Society of Australia and New Zealand. Following her Phd studies, she completed three additional clinical fellowships in London, UK and in Melbourne. She has served as on consensus statements for the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplant (ISHLT). She has been recipient of the ISHLT Award in MCS Translational Research being the first female and first Australian recipient of this international award. In 2018, she was recipient of the Heart Foundation Innovation Award. She is current supervisor of PhD and honours students with over 50 peer-reviewed publications.
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Dr Angeline Leet
Cardiologist
Alfred Hospital

Heart transplant – the fourth stage of single ventricle palliation

2:15 PM - 2:30 PM

Biography

Angeline Leet is a heart failure and transplant cardiologist. She is Head of Echocardiography, and Deputy Director at the Heart Centre, Alfred Hospital.
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Prof Jan Marek
Great Ormond Street Hospital

Cardiac resynchronisation in children/CHD

2:30 PM - 2:50 PM

Biography

Professor Jan Marek is a Consultant Cardiologist with expertise in paediatric and prenatal cardiology and cardiovascular imaging. He has been working at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) since 2005 after a previous 20-year professional career at University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic. Jan is a Professor at the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences at University College London (UCL) and Charles University, Prague. Jan trained as a paediatric cardiologist in Prague, Houston, and Toronto. Since 1991 he has specialised in prenatal cardiology and paediatric cardiovascular imaging and contributed to establishing specialist centers and departments in Prague, (University Hospital Motol), Munich (Deutsches Herzzentrum), and London (GOSH). He contributed a great deal to establishing a nationwide prenatal screening program in Czechoslovakia in 1985-1990. Jan completed five grants as a principal investigator and published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles. He published one textbook as a monograph and contributed to several other books and teaching materials.
Dr Faith Njue
Cardiologist
Fiona Stanley Hospital

Chairperson

Biography

Faith Njue is a heart failure/heart transplant cardiologist with a special interest in adult congenital heart disease and cardio-obstetrics. She completed 2 years of fellowship in advanced heart failure/transplant followed by a fellowship in ACHD and cardio-obstetrics. She is the clinical lead for cardio-obstetrics at Fiona Stanley Hospital.
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Dr Robert Weintraub
Cardiologist
Royal Children's Hospital

Chairperson

Biography

Dr Weintraub graduated from Sydney University and trained in Paediatrics at the Prince of Wales Children’s Hospital. He trained in Cardiology at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, and then worked as a consultant at Harefield Hospital in the UK, and was a National Heart Foundation research fellow at the UCSD Medical Center in San Diego. He returned to the Royal Children’s Hospital in 1992, where he is the lead clinician for the heart transplant and pulmonary hypertension services.
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