Sarcoid Session
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Matiu Meeting Room
| Friday, June 12, 2026 |
| 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM |
| Matiu Meeting Room |
Speaker
Dr Tony Scott
Consultant Cardiologist
Health New Zealand Waitemata
Overview
1:30 PM - 1:50 PMBiography
Dr Budresh Joshi
Senior Medical Officer Radiology
Health New Zealand Counties Manukau
Finding the chameleon: Imaging of Cardiac Sarcoid
1:50 PM - 2:10 PMBiography
Budresh is a general radiologist with special interests in Cardiothoracic imaging, including Cardiac MRI, Cardiac CT and CTCA, HRCT and Dual energy CT. He also has 13+ years of experience in PET-CT, having started the service in his previous practice in Cape Town, South Africa.
He currently works at Counties Manukau Middlemore Hospital, having grown up and trained in South Africa, working as a consultant in Cape Town, before moving to Auckland. He has previously worked as a Radiologist in the UK and Canada as well.
Specific topics of interest include: Diffuse parenchymal lung diseases, including sarcoid; lung cancer screening, Pulmonary hypertension and cardiac disease.
Dr Shawn Foo
Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist
North Shore Hospital
Devices in cardiac sarcoidosis
2:10 PM - 2:30 PMBiography
Dr Evelyn Lesiawan
Research Fellow
Auckland City Hospital
Treatment and Local Situation
2:30 PM - 2:50 PMBiography
Evelyn is a Heart Foundation Heart Health Research Fellow undertaking a PHD at the University of Auckland.
All Speakers
Q&A / Discussion
2:50 PM - 3:00 PMBiography
Dr Susan Plunkett
Cardiologist
Hutt Hospital
Chair
Biography
Assoc Prof Darren Hooks
Cardiologist
Wellington Regional Hospital
Chair
Biography