Arrhythmia / EP: Advances in ventricular arrhythmia management
Tracks
Track 2
| Saturday, August 8, 2026 |
| 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM |
| Cockle Bay 1 |
Speaker
Assoc Prof Saurabh Kumar
Senior Staff Specialist
Westmead Hospital
Imaging guided VT ablation
3:45 PM - 4:00 PMBiography
A/Prof Kumar is a cardiologist and electrophysiologist, program director for ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death at Westmead Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney. His research interests include genetic basis of ventricular arrhythmias, in particular channelopathies and cardiomyopathies.
Assoc Prof Pierre Qian
Cardiologist / Cardiac Electrophysiologist
Westmead Hospital
PFA for VT - ready for prime time?
4:00 PM - 4:15 PMBiography
Pierre is a cardiac electrophysiologist and clinician scientist based at Westmead and Blacktown Hospitals, Sydney, and the Westmead Applied Research Centre. He leads a translational biomedical engineering team at Westmead Hospital developing ablation technology to treat heart rhythm disorders and high blood pressure. He returned in 2020 from a clinical and research Fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School where his training in complex arrhythmia management included zero fluro techniques and clinical applications of novel ablation technologies.
Assoc Prof Haris Haqqani
Senior Electrophysiologist
The Prince Charles Hospital
Management of electrical storm
4:15 PM - 4:30 PMBiography
A/Prof. Haris Haqqani is a Senior Consultant Cardiologist & Electrophysiologist at the Prince Charles Hospital. He was trained at the University of Melbourne, Royal Melbourne Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania. His research has focused on the mechanisms of VT in heart failure. Haris has authored or co-authored more than 100 journal papers, 20 book chapters and several national and global arrhythmia guidelines and is a regularly invited conference speaker.
Assoc Prof Hariharan Raju
Cardiologist
MQ Health
Ventricular arrhythmias: When to call the geneticist
4:30 PM - 4:45 PMBiography
Dr Nick Jackson
Cardiologist
John Hunter Hospital
VT ablation: What is the target? What is the end point?
4:45 PM - 5:00 PMBiography
Dr Nick Jackson studied cardiology and electrophysiology at John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle and at Toronto General Hospital in Canada. He is now a conjoint senior lecturer with the University of Newcastle and a staff specialist at John Hunter Hospital. During this time his research has included work on ventricular fibrillation in explanted human hearts and new mapping techniques for ventricular tachycardia ablation.
Dr Karin Chia
Senior Cardiac Electrophysiologist
Royal North Shore Hospital
Chairperson
Biography
Dr Karin Chia is a senior cardiac electrophysiologist and Director of the CIED Clinic at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, Australia. Her clinical interests encompass catheter ablation of complex arrhythmias and the implantation and management of cardiac devices.
Bradley Wilsmore
Cardiologist
John Hunter Hospital
Chairperson
Biography
