Breakfast Session: Imaging: Rural, remote and outreach
Tracks
Track 6
| Saturday, August 8, 2026 |
| 7:30 AM - 8:15 AM |
| Meeting Room C4.5 |
Speaker
Mr Alex Kaethner
Director / Cardiac Physiologist
Strong Hearts
Challenges and lessons from remote echocardiography
7:30 AM - 7:45 AMBiography
Alex is an experienced Cardiac Physiologist with a passion for quality cardiac care and improving accessibility in healthcare for those who need it most. He has been working as a Cardiac Sonographer for 19 years and in the Northern Territory for the past 16.
As well as his past clinical and managerial roles, he has contributed to many research projects within Australia, Timor-Leste and across the Pacific focusing on early detection of Rheumatic Heart Disease.
Dr Bo Remenyi
Paediatric Cardiologist
Royal Darwin Hospital
Screening for rheumatic heart disease
7:45 AM - 8:00 AMBiography
Dr Bo Remenyi is a consultant paediatric cardiologist at Royal Darwin Hospital, Australia, Director of Deadly Heart Trek Ltd, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Menzies School of Health Research. Her clinical practice and research focus on acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, spanning disease mechanisms, early diagnosis, echocardiographic screening and implementation science.
Suresh de Silva
Radiology across borders - implementing outreach at scale
8:00 AM - 8:15 AMBiography
Dr Angus Baumann
Cardiologist
Alice Springs Hospital
Chairperson
Biography
Dr Baumann is an Imaging and General Cardiologist based in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, with professional interests in rural cardiac care, Indigenous health, CTCA and the management of rheumatic heart disease.
Dr Heather Finn
Cardiologist
Newcastle Heart
Chairperson
Biography
