Imaging combined session with Genetics: Multimodality imaging in genetics
Tracks
Imaging
Saturday, August 16, 2025 |
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM |
Speaker
Prof John Atherton
Director of Cardiology
Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital
When do I perform genetic testing in my patient with heart failure?
1:45 PM - 2:00 PMBiography
John Atherton (MBBS, PhD, FRACP, FCSANZ, FHFA) is a Pre-eminent Staff Specialist and Director of Cardiology at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH) and Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland.
Professor Atherton was one of four non-European official content reviewers for the 2016 European Society of Cardiology Heart Failure Guidelines and is a European Society of Cardiology Heart Failure Association Ambassador. He chaired the 2018 National Heart Foundation of Australia/ Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ) Heart Failure Guidelines, sits on the Therapeutic Guidelines Cardiovascular Expert Group and co-authored the first universal definition of heart failure.
Professor Atherton is Data Custodian for the Queensland Cardiac Outcomes Registry (QCOR)- Heart Failure and sits as a Director on the National Cardiac Registry Board. His clinical and research interests include investigating novel methods to detect pre-symptomatic heart disease, heart failure disease management, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and cardiac genetics.
Prof Christopher Kramer
President
American College of Cardiology
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Novel predictors of prognosis
2:00 PM - 2:15 PMBiography
Christopher M. Kramer, MD, FACC, received his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, and completed his residency and chief residency in internal medicine, and fellowship in cardiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. His first faculty appointment was at Allegheny General Hospital, then MCP/Hahnemann University School of Medicine, where he directed the cardiology fellowship.
He then moved to the University of Virginia School of Medicine, where in 2019 he was named the George A. Beller/Lantheus Medical Imaging Distinguished Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, and Medical Director of the Heart and Vascular Science Line. Kramer's principal research interest has been the application of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) to the cardiovascular system in clinical and translational studies.
Prior to serving as ACC President, Kramer served as President of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR), ACC Treasurer and Vice President, Chair of ACC's Imaging Council, and Chair of the Clinical and Integrative Cardiovascular Sciences NIH study section. Kramer was an associate editor at JACC and previously was Executive Editor of JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Circulation, Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging and Vascular Medicine. Kramer is also a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, Association of University Cardiologists and American Association of Physicians. He received the Gold Medal from the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in 2015 and was named a Distinguished Mentor by the ACC in 2021.
Chris is joining this year's ASM representing the American College of Cardiology, in his role as President.
Dr Preeti Choudhary
Cardiology
Westmead Hospital
Congenital heart disease: Imaging advances, challenges and the genetic link
2:15 PM - 2:30 PMBiography
Assoc Prof Rebecca Kozor
Cardiologist
Royal North Shore Hospital / University of Sydney
Beyond the usual suspects: Imaging and genetics in Fabry disease and rare cardiomyopathies
2:30 PM - 2:45 PMBiography
A/Prof Rebecca Kozor is a physician-researcher with roles as a consultant cardiologist at Royal North Shore Hospital Sydney and as Associate Professor at the University of Sydney. She has specialist expertise in cardiac imaging, particularly cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging.
All speakers
Panel discussion
2:45 PM - 3:00 PMBiography
Dr Ashleigh Dind
Cardiologist
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital & Hornsby Cardiac
Chairperson
Biography
Prof Martin Ugander
Director of Clinical Imaging
University of Sydney
Chairperson
Biography
Professor Martin Ugander, MD, PhD, FCSANZ, is since 2019 Professor of Cardiac Imaging at the University of Sydney. One aspect of his research involves using cardiac imaging to develop advanced electrocardiography (ECG) analysis methods, and he is co-founder of the company Advanced ECG Systems.
