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Q&A Session

Dr Alexander Incani graduated from The University of Melbourne with first class honours and was dux of internal medicine in 2003. Following cardiology training at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, he commenced his interventional training at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth, working with the team who bought MitraClip to Australia. He then moved to The Prince Charles Hospital Brisbane to continue his coronary and structural interventional training before finishing in Vancouver under the supervision of Professor John Webb, pioneer of the Edwards transcatheter heart valve.

Alex has been the recipient of numerous meritorious awards including a National Heart Foundation Research Scholarship in 1999, an Outstanding Achievement Award for his contribution to the cath lab at The Prince Charles Hospital 2012, The Interventional Fellows’ Prize ANZET 2012 and the CSL Biotherapies Award for interventional training 2013. He is a senior lecturer at The University of Queensland and has recently coauthored the “chest pain guidelines” for general practitioners through MedicareLocal 2014. He is currently an MPhil student at UQ performing original research in intracoronary physiology and imaging and was instrumental in bringing iFR to Australia. He has published over 20 papers and 40 abstracts during his fellowship.

Alex is an interventional cardiologist, he has a special interest in all aspects of tertiary level cardiac care including trans-catheter heart valve insertion, and complex high risk angioplasty. He is a founding partner, and managing director of CardioVacular Clinics. Alex is available for appointments at St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital Spring Hill and Rockhampton.

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Q&A Session

Dr Brendan Bell is a founding partner of CardioVascular Clinics (CVC) and is committed to providing comprehensive quaternary cardiac care. Brendan has special interests in transradial complex coronary interventions, peripheral arterial disease and all aspects of clinical cardiology, particularly chest pain assessment, primary and secondary prevention, and peri-operative management of cardiac patients.

Brendan graduated from the University of Queensland in 2001 with the University Medal and Lillian Cooper Prize for Dux of Medicine. He conducted his basic medical training at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne and completed his specialist cardiology training at The Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane in 2009.

Brendan then undertook an interventional cardiology fellowship at The Prince Charles Hospital and in 2010 travelled to Lahey Clinic in Boston for a two-year interventional coronary and peripheral endovascular fellowship. During this time he was honored to be a member of Project Pacer International providing voluntary cardiac care in Ethiopia. The project is a Boston based, non-profit organisation, dedicated to the provision of modern cardiac therapy to impoverished patients in the developing world.

Brendan is recognized as an interventional cardiologist and also as an experienced proceduralist by the Conjoint Committee for the Recognition of Training in Peripheral Endovascular Therapy.

On returning to Australia in 2012, Brendan commenced at The Prince Charles Hospital as Staff interventional cardiologist. Since 2013 Brendan has been the Director of the Coronary Care Unit, as well as the Chest Pain Assessment Service at The Prince Charles Hospital where approximately 2000 patients a year are admitted to the unit.

Brendan remains active in medical research and has presented and performed live interventional cases for local and international conferences, as well as published numerous articles in the field of interventional cardiology.

Brendan is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland and is committed to regular teaching of medical students and physician trainees. He has authored several cardiac guidelines and is a member of the Statewide Anticoagulation Committee.

Brendan is consulting privately at St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital Spring Hill, and also conducts regular clinics in Hervey Bay at St Stephen’s Private Hospital, and Rockhampton – Mater at CVC CardioVascular Clinics. He can be contacted at CVC on 1300 306 358.

Presentation Title: 
Virtual GP Dinner on pacemakers

 

Dr Reny Suryani joined the CVC CardioVascular Clinic Team in 2016 as a Clinical and Cardiac Imaging Specialist. Dr Suryani graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2006. After spending a year at Stanford University California undertaking research in Exercise Physiology, she completed her Cardiology Advanced Training at Geelong Hospital, Victoria. Subsequently she completed a fellowship at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne in advanced Echocardiography where she gained expertise in 3D Transoesophageal Echocardiography, Contrast Echocardiography and Myocardial Mechanics using speckle tracking.

Dr Suryani consults on all forms of cardiovascular disease and has a special interest in valvular heart disease, cardiomyopathy and chest pain. She is available for referral advice and provides a consultation service and cardiac testing at CVC CardioVascular Clinics at the Sara Stella Medical Centre, St Stephens Private Hospital.

Presentation Title: 
Virtual GP Dinner on pacemakers

 

Matthew Pincus obtained his medical degree from the University of Queensland and completed his general cardiology training at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney. He did an additional fellowship in heart failure/transplantation at St Vincent’s and two years of interventional fellowships at St Vincent’s and the Prince of Wales Hospitals, Sydney.

Matthew has been an interventional and clinical cardiologist at the Prince Charles Hospital since 2007, director of the Prince Charles Hospital Coronary Care Unit from 2008-2013, is the cardiology representative on the Queensland Health Medicines Advisory Committee and Chair of the Prince Charles Hospital Drugs and Therapeutics Committee. He has been Senior Lecturer at The University of Queensland and an examiner for the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

While maintaining his public appointment, including regular indigenous outreach clinics in Western Queensland and The Gulf, he is consulting at St Andrew’s Hospital and Rockhampton and performing interventions at St Andrew’s. Matthew is a founding member of CardioVascular Clinics and is available for all general cardiology consultations at all locations and is available for referral advice.

Presentation Title: 
Virtual GP Dinner on pacemakers

 

Dr Harendra Wijesekera joined the CVC CardioVascular team in February 2016 as a Clinical and non -invasive Cardiologist.

Harendra grew up in Brisbane and moved to Melbourne where he graduated from Monash University in 2006, he completed his cardiology advanced training at Monash Heart Victoria. Subsequently he undertook an imaging fellowship at the Northern Hospital and finished his training in Cardiac Computed Tomography (CTA) at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore USA.

Harendra is trained in Advanced Echocardiography and Cardiac Computed Tomography (CTA). He consults on all forms of cardiovascular disease and has a particular interest in the assessment and optimization of cardiovascular risk, chest pain, valvular heart disease and heart failure.

Dr Wijesekera now resides in Hervey Bay as part of the CVC CardioVascular team and is available for consultations and referral advice at the Sara Stella Medical Centre, St Stephens Private Hospital, Urraween.