Plenary Session: Valvular Assessment
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 |
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM |
Victory A/B |
Speaker
Prof Greg Scalia
Director of Echocardiography
The Prince Charles Hospital
Chair
Biography
Dr Helen Thomson
VMO
Heart Centre at the Alfred
Dr Stephen Tomlinson
Cardiologist
The Prince Charles Hospital
Atrial function MR & TR
11:20 AM - 11:40 AMBiography
Dr Stephen Tomlinson is a staff specialist in echocardiography at the Prince Charles Hospital. He undertook subspeciality training in valvular and structural heart disease at Columbia University Medical Centre in New York, USA, and has published a master’s thesis novel echocardiographic techniques to diagnose diastolic dysfunction. He is a national expert in imaging for structural heart disease.
Prof Christian Hamilton-Craig
Cardiologist
University of Queensland and Sunshine Coast
Mitral annular disjunction
11:40 AM - 12:00 PMBiography
Christian Hamilton-Craig is a multi-modality imaging cardiologist, trained in Australia, USA and Europe. He is a Level 3 expert in Echocardiography, Cardiac CT and Cardiac MRI, and practices from Noosa, Sunshine coast QLD
Abbott
Silver Sponsor Presentation
12:00 PM - 12:15 PMBiography
Prof Greg Scalia
Director of Echocardiography
The Prince Charles Hospital
Announcement of Case Study Winners & Farewell Address
12:15 PM - 12:30 PMBiography
Professor Greg Scalia is a Gold Medal graduate of the University of Queensland, 1987. He was the first dedicated echocardiologist to join Advara HeartCare, having completed a two year cardiac imaging fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic, USA in 1996.
Professor Scalia is a nationally respected expert in echocardiography, undertaking a busy schedule of lecturing and teaching in Australia, the United States and South East Asia. He has been co-director of the Echo Australia program since its inception in 2002.
Professor Scalia has been awarded fellowships in the American College of Cardiology and the American Society of Echocardiography. He was awarded a Master of Medical Science by the University of Queensland in 1999 for original research into cardiac diastolic function.
He has been Associate Professor of Medicine at his alumni, the University of Queensland since 2004 and became a Professor in 2018. Professor Scalia is the Director of Echocardiography at The Prince Charles Hospital. Professor Scalia has published over three hundred papers, abstracts and book chapters in peer-reviewed major journals.
