Preventative Cardiology: Primary prevention
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Preventative Cardiology
Saturday, August 16, 2025 |
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM |
Speaker
Prof Peter Toth
Director of Research Service Facility - Cellular Imaging
University of Illinois at Chicago
Aggressive LDL-C lowering and the brain: is there really excess risk for hemorrhagic stroke or neurocognitive injury?
1:30 PM - 2:00 PMBiography
Peter P. Toth, MD, PhD is Director of Preventive Cardiology at the CGH Medical Center in Sterling, Illinois, USA. He is Professor of Clinical Family and Community Medicine at the University of Illinois School of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the Cicarrone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Toth is a past president of the National Lipid Association, the American Board of Clinical Lipidology, and the American Society for Preventive Cardiology. He is the immediate past chair of the American Heart Association’s Council on Lipids, Lipoproteins, and Thrombosis and is a member of the American College of Cardiology’s Board of Councilors. Dr. Toth has authored and co-authored over 500 publications in medical and scientific journals and textbooks. He is Series Editor of Springer’s textbook collection in Contemporary Cardiology. He has edited and written 23 textbooks on various aspects of cardiovascular medicine. He has lectured on many topics in cardiovascular medicine throughout the world.
Dr Ingrid Stacey
Research Fellow
University of Western Australia
Hospitalisation patterns and costs of treating ARF and RHD in Australia
2:00 PM - 2:15 PMBiography
Dr Ingrid Stacey is a Research Fellow in the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research Centre (University of Western Australia) and affiliate of the Cardiology Population Health Laboratory (Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute). She is a biostatistician and cardiovascular epidemiologist conducting collaborative research that improves cardiovascular health outcomes for First Nations people.
Assoc Prof Stephanie Partridge
Sydney Horizon Fellow
University of Sydney
Youth CVD prevention and well-being
2:15 PM - 2:30 PMBiography
A/Prof Stephanie Partridge is a Sydney Horizon Fellow and National Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellow at the University of Sydney. She leads a program of research that aims to harness digital technology to create healthy societies and improve the health of adolescents. She actively involves adolescents in all phases of her research.
Dr Sonali Munot
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Westmead Applied Research Centre
Innovative approaches to brief basic life support training in a community setting (Ready2Revive – an effectiveness-implementation hybrid type 2 pilot study)
2:30 PM - 2:45 PMBiography
Sonali Munot is a postdoctoral research fellow at The University of Sydney’s Westmead Applied Research Centre. Her research focuses on improving outcomes from sudden cardiac arrest with an emphasis on equity and access to education and training.
Prof Christian Hamilton-Craig
Director, Noosa Hearts Cardiology
University of Queensland
CT imaging - CAC/CTCA – ‘primary prevention and a half'
2:45 PM - 3:00 PMBiography
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.
Prof Mark Nelson
Chair of General Practice
University of Tasmania
Chairperson
Biography
Mark Nelson is a general practitioner and public health physician active in research for the last 20 years. He collaborates widely in clinical, health services and public health fields with strong engagement and recruitment of general practitioners for research in general practice. He has research interests in large-scale clinical trials conducted in general practice and the prevention and management of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in this setting. His main health outcomes of interest are CVD primary prevention and healthy ageing.
A/Prof Jessica Orchard
Associate Professor
University of Sydney
Chairperson
Biography
Jessica is a Principal Research Fellow at the School of Public Health, University of Sydney. Jessica is the Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport Plus and director of the Australasian Registry of ECGs in National Athletes (ARENA).
Jessica’s research aims to improve the quality of cardiac screening programs to prevent sudden cardiac death and stroke.
