Tom Marwick
MBBS, FRACP, PhD, MPH
Professor Tom Marwick is currently the Director of the Menzies Research Institute, Hobart and the former Director, Center for Cardiovascular Imaging at the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. An internationally recognised expert in the field of echocardiography and an eminent teacher and scientist with numerous peer reviewed publications. He has authored and co-authored many book chapters on various facets of echocardiography.
Adrian Chong
MBBS, FRACP, BPharm
Adrian is a cardiologist at Princess Alexandra and Mater Adults Hospitals in Brisbane. He completed an undergraduate Bachelor of Pharmacy degree before graduating from Medicine with first class honours and awarded a university medal from the University of Queensland. Adrian completed his cardiology training and clinical echocardiography fellowship at the Princess Alexandra Hospital followed by a further two-year clinical and research imaging fellowship at St Michael’s Hospital and the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute (University of Toronto) in Canada. He is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland with active research interests in aortic valve disease and is an examiner for the Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (DMU, Cardiac).
David Prior
MBBS, FRACP, PhD
A/ Prof David Prior is the Director of Non-invasive Cardiac imaging, an Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne, and a Clinical Research Fellow at St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research. His advanced cardiology training was undertaken at the Alfred Hospital. He then completed a PhD at the Baker Heart Research Institute and Alfred Hospital examining abnormal vascular function in heart failure. After undertaking an Advanced Fellowship in Echocardiography at the Cleveland Clinic, A/ Prof Prior returned to Melbourne to take up a position at St Vincent’s Hospital. A/ Prof Prior is a cardiologist with extensive experience in echocardiography and heart failure. His research interests include non-invasive assessment of myocardial function in athletes and patients with heart failure, the role of echocardiography in diagnosis and prognosis in heart failure, as well as pulmonary hypertension.
Luke Galligan
MBBS, FRACP
Dr Galligan trained locally graduating from the University of Tasmania medical school and initially training at the Royal Hobart Hospital, completing basic physician training and beginning training in cardiology. He then continued cardiological training at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney and the Children’s Hospital in Sydney where he undertook training in paediatric cardiology. He then subsequently completed an interventional cardiological fellowship in Canada .
Following return to Hobart in 1990 he has worked jointly in private practice and as a VMO in cardiology at the Royal Hobart hospital. He has an ongoing involvement with the medical school. His practice includes all aspects of general cardiology with special interests in interventional and paediatric cardiology.
Kazuaki Negishi
MD, PhD
Kaz Negishi is a senior lecturer and cardiologist at Menzies Research Institute Tasmania. He graduated from Gunma University, Japan and completed a two-year Echocardiography fellowship at Osaka City University, Japan. He completed his PhD at Gunma University Graduate School of medicine. He then moved to Cleveland Clinic, USA to pursue his research interests and spent three years as a research fellow under the supervision of Professor Tom Marwick. His main area of interest is clinical application of Echocardiography, especially strain imaging. He is also interested in the application of the cardiovascular imaging such as chemotherapy induced cardiotoxicity, ventricular-arterial coupling in haemodialysis patients and the effects of air pollution on the cardiovascular system.
Lesley Donelan
DMU(cardiac), AMS (cardiac)
Lesley has been a Clinical and Research Echocardiographer and Educator for over three decades, specializing in Paediatric and Adult echocardiography. Most of that time was spent at Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne, Australia. Recent positions included Tutor and Echocardiography Consultant at the University of Melbourne for Post Graduate Clinical Ultrasound Courses for Anaesthetists, Emergency & Intensive Care Physicians & Clinical Educator and Senior Echocardiographer at Cardiac Concepts, Melbourne. She currently practices as a Consultant Echocardiography Specialist involved in the training & educating of technical & medical staff at various institutions in Australia and Malaysia, as well as Echocardiography Researcher for Monash University, Practical Clinical Examiner for the Diploma of Medical Ultrasound (Cardiac) with the Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (ASUM) & Clinical Assessor for the Graduate Diploma in Cardiac Ultrasound, Queensland University of Technology (QUT).
Lesley’s commitment and passion is to educate and train sonographers and medical staff to produce quality echocardiograms resulting in optimal patient management and outcome.
Janette Power
BSc, DMU (cardiac)
Janette Power is currently the Principle Echocardiographer at the Royal Hobart Hospital, Tasmania. Janette has worked as an Echocardiographer for over 20 years; she completed her DMU in 1995 and has worked in most of the southern states of Australia including a long period at Monash Medical Centre. Janette also spent two years working in London at St Thomas’ and St George’s hospitals.