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Arrhythmia / EP combined session with Genetics: Genetics in EP and sudden cardiac death

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Arrhythmia/EP
Friday, August 15, 2025
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM

Speaker

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Assoc Prof Jodie Ingles
Laboratory Head
Garvan Institute

Overview of genomics of sudden cardiac death

3:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Biography

A/Prof Jodie Ingles is Head of the Clinical Genomics Laboratory and Director of Genomics and Inherited Disease Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research. She is a cardiac genetic counsellor in the Department of Cardiology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
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Assoc Prof Raymond Sy
Staff Cardiologist
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

J wave syndromes: Unifying mechanisms and management

4:00 PM - 4:15 PM

Biography

Associate Professor Raymond Sy is an academic cardiologist with a special interest in heart rhythm disorders. He was awarded the University medal in Medicine at the University of Queensland. He received the Ralph Reader Prize from the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand in 2007. He then completed a two-year fellowship in cardiac electrophysiology and pacing at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Professor Sy has authored numerous peer-reviewed manuscripts in the areas of inherited arrhythmia syndromes, and ablation of atrial and ventricular arrhythmias. He is an invited faculty speaker at national and international conferences.
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Prof Eddy Kizana
Cardiologist and Research Group Leader
The Westmead Institute for Medical Research , University of Sydney and Westmead Hospital

Gene therapy

4:15 PM - 4:30 PM

Biography

Dr Kizana is a clinician/researcher at the Westmead Research Hub who divides his time between clinical cardiac electrophysiology and translational research. Dr Kizana is Co-Director of the Centre for Heart Research and Cardiac Gene Therapy Group Leader at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney. To dovetail his clinical and research activities, he leads a research group focused on the development novel therapies for cardiac disease. The group are developing AAV vectors as a platform technology for targeting human myocardium and using these in preclinical models of human disease to advance gene therapy for heart disease.
Dr Claire Lawley
Paediatric Cardiologist, Clinical Senior Lecturer
Sydney Children's Hospitals Network

The spectrum of RyR2 disease: CPVT and beyond

4:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Biography

Dr Claire Lawley is a paediatric cardiologist at Sydney Children's Hospitals Network with special interest in heritable cardiac conditions and paediatric arrhythmia. She is a clinical senior lecturer (University of Sydney), and was awarded her PhD from this institution in 2019. Her current research interests include clinical outcomes of children affected by heritable conditions and sudden cardiac arrest.
Dr Louise Segan
Cardiologist
Alfred Health

Does polygenic risk scores improve clinical risk scores in AF prediction?

4:45 PM - 5:00 PM

Biography

Dr Segan is a cardiologist and Electrophysiologist at the alfred hospital. She has undertaken her PhD in atrial fibrillation, with a specific focus on prevention and optimising outcomes in AF and heart failure.
Dr Kevin Ng
Senior Medical Officer
Cairns Hospital

Chairperson

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A/Prof Belinda Gray
Cardiologist
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

Chairperson

3:45 PM - 5:15 PM

Biography

Dr Belinda Gray is a Cardiologist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at University of Sydney. She is a Heart Foundation Future Leadership Fellow. Dr Gray completed her PhD in Genetic Heart Disease at University of Sydney and postdoctoral fellowship in Inherited Cardiac Conditions and Sports Cardiology at St George’s, University of London, UK. Dr Gray’s research focuses on risk stratification, genetics and prevention of sudden cardiac death in the young, including young athletes.
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