AstraZeneca AU - GP HF Masterclass

Event Info

Topic:

The A-Z of Managing Heart Failure in Primary Care

Date: 25/08/2021
Time: 7:30pm – 9:15pm (AEST) || 7:00pm – 8:45pm (ACST) || 5:30pm – 7:15pm (AWST)

Dr Anita Sharma
Speaker Dr. Anita Sharma is the practice principal of Platinum Medical Centre, supervisor for general practice registrars, Member of the RACGP Education Committee, and the Diabetes National Faculty Specific Interest Group. She is Senior Lecturer School of Clinical Medicine – Primary Care Clinical Unit, University of Queensland and serves on the Editorial Board for Medicine Today. She is an advisory board member for REED MEDICAL education and develops education modules in chronic diseases like Diabetes, Heart Failure, COPD, Obesity, and Osteoporosis. Dr. Sharma is a designated aviation medical examiner (DAME and an active member of the Australian Federation of Medical Women (AFMW).
Prof Andrew Sindone
Speaker Prof Andrew Sindone is Director of the Heart Failure Unit and Department of Cardiac Rehabilitation at Concord Hospital and Consultant Cardiologist at Ryde Hospital in Sydney. He has been engaged in improving the lives of those living with cardiovascular disease for thirty years. He established the Heart Failure Unit at Concord Hospital with the Heart Failure Clinic, research, rehabilitation and outreach programs. He has run a program to update specialists in the management of heart failure over the last twenty-two years.Prof Sindone has been Principal Investigator in over 38 international multicentre clinical trials and continues to do research in the area of heart failure. He is co-chair of the NSW Cardiovascular Expert Reference Group, a Fellow of the Heart Foundation of Australia, and is co-author of the Australian Guidelines for the Management of Heart Failure.
Prof Brendan McQuillan
Speaker Prof McQuillan is currently Dean and Head of the Medical School at the University of WA. He is a Cardiologist and Director of Echocardiography in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (SCGH). Following completion of his Ph.D. in vascular biology at the Heart Research Institute of WA, he undertook Postdoctoral research at Harvard University and completed a Fellowship in Echocardiography at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA. He has led and supervised clinical research in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at SCGH since 2004. He has been the supervisor of advanced trainees, and basic physician trainees throughout this time and served as the Director of Clinical Training for Interns and Resident Medical Officers at SCGH for six years. He has been nominated for teaching awards at the University of Western Australia and SCGH. He serves on the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand Quality Standards Committee and was the Convenor of the 2017 CSNAZ Annual Scientific Meeting. He has twenty-five years of clinical experience in Cardiovascular medicine, which has stimulated ongoing interest in a range of research areas aimed at improving clinical outcomes through the implementation of research findings.
Dr Gary Deed
Speaker Dr. Gary Deed is a general practitioner with a passionate interest in promoting quality patient care of diabetes in general practice through education, development of resources including guidelines, policy development, research and strategic collaboration. He is the Chair of the Diabetes Specific interest network for the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), and a Ministerial appointment to the Commonwealth Diabetes Implementation Reference Group for Australia. He is the editor for the General Practice management of type 2 diabetes guidelines for the RACGP. He is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow of Monash University and helps co-ordinates the NHMRC funded ‘STAREE’ Statins in Reducing Events in the Elderly trial - http://www.staree.org.au/. He has published peer-reviewed journal articles in diabetes and is an editor for Diabetes Therapy and adviser/editor for Endocrinology Today.
Dr Christine Burdeniuk
Speaker Dr. Christine Burdeniuk completed her cardiology and echocardiography training at Flinders Medical Centre before undertaking a further clinical fellowship in Cardiac Transplantation at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. She returned to Adelaide in 2009 and since then has contributed significantly to the advanced heart failure services in SALHN and extended the high-end care to patients in the lower South East with her outreach work to Mt Gambier. She is one of the few clinicians in SA to manage cardiac transplant recipients and patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. At Magnolia Specialist Centre she delivers general cardiology services with a particular interest in heart disease in women. She is the Director of Clinical Training for SALHN.
A/Prof John Amerena
Speaker A/Prof John Amerena trained in Melbourne before spending four years in the United States at the University of Michigan.He is now a Cardiologist at Barwon Health, and currently has appointments in the Medical School, Deakin University and the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. He is the director of the Geelong Cardiology Research Unit which is currently involved in many phase II-III clinical trials and is interested in research into atherothrombosis, in particular with respect to antithrombotic/antiplatelet therapies, especially in the context of atrial fibrillation, Heart Failure is also a major interest, and he is the Director of the Heart Failure Programme at Barwon Health. He has been on the steering committee of several of the major trials in these areas as National Lead Investigator and has many publications in these fields.
A/Prof Ralph Audehm
Speaker A/Prof Audehm is a general practitioner who has worked for over 30 years in general practice and is experienced in managing all types of patients. A/Prof Audehm graduated from Melbourne University in 1984 and obtained a Diploma from the Royal Australian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1987. He gained a Graduate Certificate in Clinical Research in 2005. In 2004 he was made an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Melbourne and became an Honorary Clinical Associate Professor in 2014. A/Prof Audehm has had a long-standing interest in the management of chronic conditions in General Practice and has instigated and supported many initiatives to systematically improve health outcomes for people with diabetes and heart disease. He has had a long association with the University of Melbourne in delivering programs upskilling GPs in detection and management of domestic violence. A/Prof Audehm has close links to the Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, and participates in research and teaching of medical students, GP registrars and General Practitioners.
Dr Lewis MacKinnon
Speaker Dr Lewis MacKinnon is a Perth-based GP who trained in Scotland. Before moving to Australia in 2015, he provided primary and emergency 24/7 care on the remote and picturesque Scottish island of Islay.In addition to running his own GP practice in Armadale, Dr MacKinnon is involved with the training of GP Registrars and the teaching of medical students from UWA and Notre Dame, Fremantle. He has a special interest in heart failure and infectious disease and is an S100 prescriber in HIV medicine and HBV. He was recognised with the RACGP WA GP of the year award in 2019 and was recently elected as WA RACGP Faculty Deputy Chair.
Dr James Cafaro
Speaker Dr James Cafaro is a Specialist General Practitioner based in Adelaide, South Australia. James is passionate about delivering excellent care to his patients in Port Adelaide as well as fostering an interesting and engaging environment for medical students and registrars to further educate in the discipline of General Practice. James has several interests including Chronic Disease Management, Sports Medicine and Skin Cancer Surgery. James takes an active role in the management of his clinics heart failure patients, a particular interest of his. James believes primary care is well placed for optimisation and longitudinal care of heart failure as well as hospital avoidance.
Dr Peter Piazza
Speaker Dr Peter Piazza is a graduate of Sydney University and has been in General Practice in the inner west of Sydney since 1977. He treats mainly an older population, mostly of southern Italian background.Despite the benefits of a Mediterranean diet, there is an epidemic of diabetes among his patient base and of necessity he has developed an interest in diabetes and its frequent accompaniments of hypertension, dyslipidaemia, obesity and consequent cardiovascular (especially ischaemic heart disease and chronic heart failure) and cerebrovascular disease. He is a member of the RACGP Diabetes Specific Interest Group. He also has an interest in GP education (especially his own) and is a member of the CPD committee of CESPHN.
Dr Scott McKenzie
Speaker Dr. Scott McKenzie is a dual-trained Cardiologist and General Physician. He is also a staff specialist at The Prince Charles Hospital in the Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Unit. Dr McKenzie is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland and an examiner for the Royal Australasia College of Physicians. He has special interests in Heart Failure, cardiomyopathies, mechanical circulatory support, heart transplant, venous thromboembolic disease, diabetes, telemedicine and remote monitoring technologies. Dr. McKenzie is actively involved in professional education for junior doctors and GPs. He is an Advanced Life Support instructor with Australia Resuscitation Council and has been a medical officer with St John Ambulance for 17 years. He is also actively involved in clinical research being the Principal Investigator in five current international trials for new heart failure therapies.

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