Named Lecturers

RT Hall Lecturer

Jeroen J Bax
Leiden University Medical Center,
Leiden, The Netherlands

Professor Jeroen Bax is both Director of non-invasive imaging and Director of the echo-lab
at the Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands. His main interests include: clinical cardiology, heart failure, cardiac resynchronization therapy and the application of all different imaging modalities to these clinical fields. Read More

Basic Science Lecturer

Richard P Harvey
Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute
Sydney, NSW, Australia

Professor Richard Harvey received his PhD in 1982 from the University of Adelaide, training in molecular biology. He undertook postdoctoral studies in embryology at Harvard University, and then moved to the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, establishing an independent group. Read More

 Victor Chang Memorial Lecturer

Michael J Mack
Cardiopulmonary Research Science and Technology Institute
Dallas, TX, USA

Michael J. Mack, M.D. was born in 1947 in Syracuse, New York. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Philosophy from Boston College in 1969 and his Medical Degree from St. Louis University in 1973. He completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Minnesota in 1976, and completed his training in General Surgery and Thoracic Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas in 1982. Read More

Cardiovascular Nursing Lecturer

Carolyn Astley

Flinders Medical Centre and Flinders University
Adelaide, SA, Australia

Carolyn worked for 20 years as a clinical nurse before becoming involved in cardiovascular research, firstly in the project management of clinical trials and outcomes research and currently as clinical effectiveness manager for cardiology at Flinders Medical Centre(FMC). In this role she works with nursing and medical clinicians to redesign systems and processes of care through clinical audit, problem identification, improvement interventions and monitoring of outcomes to improve delivery of optimal patient care. Read More

Gaston Bauer Lecturer

Professor Henry Krum
The Alfred Centre, Victoria, Australia

Prof Krum is a CV therapeutics clinical and basic researcher, particularly in the area of novel CV drug therapies. He is Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editor and/or Editorial Board member of a number of international CV therapeutics journals and is past-president of the Asian Pacific Society of Heart Failure. He has led many multi-centre trials of CV therapeutic strategies, particularly in the areas of hypertension and heart failure. Read more

Kempson Maddox Lecturer

Thomas H Marwick
Heart & Vascular Institute
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

Thomas H. Marwick, MBBS, PhD, FACC, FESC, FRCP, FRACP, is Section Head of Cardiovascular Imaging in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Cleveland Clinic. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Melbourne, and trained in medicine and cardiology in Brisbane (Princess Alexandra Hospital) and Sydney (Royal Prince Alfred Hospital). He completed training in 1988, before undertaking an Imaging Fellowship at Cleveland Clinic and a PhD at the University of Louvain, Belgium. Read More 

WCC Research Investigatorship Lecturer

Peter Kistler
Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute
Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Associate Professor Peter Kistler is the Head of Clinical Electrophysiology Research at The Baker Heart Research Institute and consultant cardiologist/electrophysiologist at The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne. He has completed a PhD in atrial fibrillation mechanisms and post doctoral research at St Bartholomews Hospital, London in AF ablation. He has been supported by the NHMRC and National Heart Foundation through fellowships and project grant support. Read More