Genetics combined session with Clinical: Aortic disease in 2025
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Sunday, August 17, 2025 |
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM |
Speaker
Dr Michelle Lim
Cardiologist
Central Sydney Cardiology
Genetic basis to aortopathy
9:00 AM - 9:15 AMBiography
Dr Michelle S Lim is a cardiologist with expertise in aortic disease and utilising precision medicine to provide personalised care to affected patients. Her PhD explored bicuspid aortic valve and associated aortic disease, after which Dr Lim undertook a clinical fellowship in aortic diseases at Washington University, USA.
Assoc Prof Dominica Zentner
Cardiologist
Royal Melbourne Hospital
Clinical assessment in syndromic aortopathy
9:15 AM - 9:30 AMBiography
A/Prof Dominica Zentner is an adult cardiologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. She has been a cardiologist at the multidisciplinary Cardiac Genetics Clinic since 2010 and co-founded the multidisciplinary Cardiac Pregnancy Clinic in 2013.
Dr John Younger
Cardiologist SMO
Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital
Optimising multimodality imaging of the aorta
9:30 AM - 9:45 AMBiography
John is an imaging cardiologist at the Royal Brisbane and at St Andrews War Memorial Hospitals. He established the cardiac CT and CMR programs at the Royal Brisbane Hospital in 2008 and has taught on CT angiography courses in Perth, Adelaide, Sydney, and Singapore. His research has been published in a variety of journals, including The BMJ, The Lancet, and Heart. He was a co-author of the CSANZ position statement on calcium scoring and the national training guidelines of cardiac MRI. He served as a CSANZ representative on the Conjoint Committee for CT Coronary Angiography and he is a past president of ANZ-CMR.
Prof Hiroyuki Nishi
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Tokai University and Hachioji Hospital
Update in surgical management and when to operate in aortopathy
9:45 AM - 10:00 AMBiography
Hiroyuki Nishi is a cardiovascular surgeon and professor of department of cardiovascular surgery at Tokai University Hachioji Hospital. He graduated from Osaka University in 1995 and worked in Melbourne and Brisbane from 2004 to 2007. He is currently one of the councilors of the Japanese Society for Cardiovascular Surgery and the Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery. He has been involved in minimally invasive cardiac surgery (MICS) as a consultant surgeon for a long time, and has been active in promoting MICS in Japan as a key member of the Japanese Association of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery. He is well versed in MICS in general, and has also performed the world's first stent graft implantation using an aortic angioscopy. He has also published a paper on new postoperative management of cardiovascular surgery using the new diuretic tolvaptan, and on congestive liver failure due to severe heart failure, making him a cardiovascular surgeon with a deep knowledge of the entire field of cardiovascular surgery.
Dr Maria Brosnan
Cardiologist
St Vincent's Hospital
Exercise recommendations for patients with aortic disease
10:00 AM - 10:15 AMBiography
All speakers
Panel discussion / Q&A
10:15 AM - 10:30 AMBiography
Mr Marco Larobina
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Epworth Hospital
Chairperson
Biography
Dr Michelle Lim
Cardiologist
Central Sydney Cardiology
Chairperson
Biography
Dr Michelle S Lim is a cardiologist with expertise in aortic disease and utilising precision medicine to provide personalised care to affected patients. Her PhD explored bicuspid aortic valve and associated aortic disease, after which Dr Lim undertook a clinical fellowship in aortic diseases at Washington University, USA.
