Imaging: State-of-the-art in aortic stenosis and Cardiac Imaging Prize session
Tracks
Imaging
Friday, August 15, 2025 |
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM |
Speaker
Prof Rebecca Hahn
Director of Interventional Echocardiography
New York-Presbyterian / Columbia University Medical Center
Will the asymptomatic and moderate aortic stenosis trials change the timing of intervention for aortic stenosis?
10:45 AM - 11:15 AMBiography
Dr. Rebecca Hahn is Professor of Medicine at Columbia University, Irving Medical Center, Director of Interventional Echocardiography at the New York Presbyterian Hospital and Center of Chief Scientific Officer of the Echo Core Lab at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation.
Dr. Hahn has dedicated her career to echocardiography and valvular heart disease. She has published over 450 articles and 11 book chapters on echocardiography and valvular heart disease, and has been on the writing committees for 4 American Society of Echocardiography recommendations/guidelines and 4 Academic Research Consortium (ARC) documents.
Dr Stephanie Rowe
PhD Student
St Vincent's Hospital
Female endurance athletes: Smaller hearts but similar relationship between ventricular size, fitness and fibrosis as male athletes
11:15 AM - 11:30 AMBiography
Dr Stephanie Rowe is a consultant cardiologist at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne. She is also a PhD candidate in the Heart, Exercise and Research Trials Lab at St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research. Her PhD focusses on on imaging and genetic predictors of exercise capacity and cardiac remodelling.
Dr Emilia Nan Tie
Advanced Trainee
Alfred Health
Prevalence of inherited cardiomyopathies in patients with sub-epicardial scar on cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.
11:30 AM - 11:45 AMBiography
Emilia is completing her final year of cardiology advanced training and undertaking a PhD in heart failure, haemodynamics and cardiac imaging at Alfred Health in 2026.
Dr Naomi Wattchow
PhD Candidate
South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute
Serial photon-counting coronary computed tomography angiography for surveillance of plaque progression in patients with Symptomatic coronary artery disease
11:45 AM - 12:00 PMBiography
Dr Naomi Wattchow is a Cardiologist and PhD candidate at the South Australian Health and Medical Research institute investigating novel biomarker discovery in coronary atherosclerosis with quantitative coronary plaque imaging via photon-counting CTCA. She is a Clinical Cardiology Fellow at Flinders Medical Centre and is passionate about Cardiology Education as the past chair, and current SA representative, of the CSANZ Fellows in Training Committee.
Dr Paul Geenty
Cardiology Research Fellow
Westmead Hospital
Subclinical RV dysfunction predicts outcomes in ATTR cardiac amyloidosis
12:00 PM - 12:15 PMBiography
Paul Geenty is a cardiology research fellow at Westmead Hospital, Sydney and is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Sydney.
Dr Siobhan Boyle
Cardiologist (multimodality imaging and obstetric cardiology)
Logan Hospital, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
Chairperson
Biography
Siobhan Boyle is a consultant cardiologist sub-specialising in multimodality imaging and obstetric cardiology. Siobhan completed physician exams in both the UK (MRCP) and Australia (FRACP) whilst undertaking basic physician training, followed by advanced physician training in cardiology at the Princess Alexandra and Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospitals. Dr Boyle gained experience in obstetric cardiology whilst working at both the Mater Hospital and the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospitals. Following completion of training in 2019, she completed a sub-specialty fellowship in echocardiography and cardiac CT at the Princess Alexandra Hospital before moving to London to complete further sub-specialty training in cardiac MRI and obstetric cardiology at the Royal Brompton Hospital in Chelsea. Since returning to Brisbane in 2022, Dr Boyle has appointments at both Logan Hospital and at The Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and is a Visiting Medical Officer at the Wesley Hospital. Her main areas of clinical practice and research are obstetric cardiology, with an ongoing commitment to improving maternal cardiovascular health, multimodality imaging in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac diseases, and exercise and preventative cardiology. Dr Boyle has multiple first-author publications in the medical literature and has presented her research nationally and internationally. Dr Boyle holds certification with National Board of Echocardiography and has accreditation in CT Coronary Angiography and Cardiac MRI. She is also a member of the Society of Cardiovascular CT and is a current serving committee member for the Society of Cardiovascular MR.
Prof Christian Hamilton-Craig
Director, Noosa Hearts Cardiology
University of Queensland
Chairperson
Biography
Prof Christian Hamilton-Craig multi-modality imaging cardiologist. Professor of Medicine University of Queensland & Griffith University .
He is the current Chair of the Conjoint Committee for Certification in Cardiac MRI, chief guideline writer on Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring, and the regional Chair of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. His research interests are translational imaging research and valvular heart disease by cardiac MRI, and he has published over 100 scientific papers including citations in the AHA/ACC Valve Guidelines. He collects guitars and likes to surf.
