Heart Failure: Hypertrophic CMP; diagnostics and treatment
Tracks
Heart Failure
Saturday, August 16, 2025 |
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM |
Speaker
Prof Carolyn Ho
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Future directions in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Beyond myosin inhibitors
1:30 PM - 1:50 PMBiography
Carolyn Ho is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Medical Director of the Cardiovascular Genetics Center, and Vice Chair of Faculty Development in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The overall goal of her work is to use mechanistic insights, careful clinical study, and multicenter collaboration to improve the care of patients and families with genetic heart disease.
Dr Scott McKenzie
Staff Cardiologist
The Prince Charles Hospital
Myosin inhibitors: Why, who, when and what?
1:50 PM - 2:05 PMBiography
Senior Staff Specialist, Advanced Heart Failure & Cardiac Transplant Unit, The Prince Charles Hospital, VMO St Vincent's Northside Private Hospital. Senior Lecturer, University of Queensland. Particular interests in Advanced Heart Failure, telehealth and remote monitoring.
Dr Vimal Patel
Consultant Cardiologist
Fiona Stanley Hospital and Royal Perth Hospital
Risk assessment in HCM
2:05 PM - 2:20 PMBiography
Dr. Patel is a consultant cardiologist with a specialization in advanced heart failure, inherited heart muscle disease, and cardiac devices. He earned a postdoctoral research degree from University College London, where he investigated the role of fibrosis in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Following this, he completed a fellowship in Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation before establishing the inherited heart muscle disease program at Fiona Stanley Hospital in Western Australia. Dr. Patel remains actively engaged in research aimed at enhancing clinical outcomes and exploring the underlying pathways involved in the development of inherited cardiac diseases.
Prof Darren Walters
Cardiology Director
The Prince Charles Hospital
Septal ablation in obstructive HCM
2:20 PM - 2:35 PMBiography
Interventional Cardiologist.
Pioneer in structural cardiac interventions: TAVI, mitraclip, MVR, tricuspid repair.
Director of Cardiology, Prince Charles Hospital.
Professor Cardiology, University of Queensland.
VMO, St Vincent’s Brisbane.
Assoc Prof Nicole Bart
National Heart Failure Stream Lead CSANZ
St Vincent's Hospital
End-stage management and transplant in HCM
2:35 PM - 2:50 PMBiography
Dr Nikki Bart is a heart failure and heart transplant cardiologist at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney and Clinical Faculty at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute.
All speakers
Panel discussion
2:50 PM - 3:00 PMBiography
Dr Sarah Gutman
Cardiologist
Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute / Alfred Hospital
Chairperson
Biography
Dr Sarah Gutman MBBS BMedSci FRACP PhD is Head of Cardiovascular MRI at The Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute and a cardiologist at The Alfred Hospital. She specialises in heart failure, transplantation and non-invasive imaging (including cardiac MRI, cardiac CT and echocardiography).
Dr. Gutman’s research interests include the use of cardiac MRI in risk stratification of heart failure patients and treating obesity in patients with heart failure.
A/Prof Belinda Gray
Cardiologist
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Chairperson
1:30 PM - 3:00 PMBiography
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.
