2024 CSANZ R T Hall Prize Winner
The 2024 R T Hall Prize has been awarded to Prof Robert Weintraub
Prof Weintraub is a paediatric cardiologist at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. He is the clinical lead of the Pulmonary Hypertension programme and Director of the National Paediatric Heart Transplant Programme since 1992. He is affiliated with the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and is an honorary Clinical Professor at the University of Melbourne. Prof Weintraub became a Fellow of CSANZ in 2004 and served on the CSANZ Scientific Committee from 2019 to 2023. He has been the national lead in paediatrics on the CSANZ scientific programme committee since 2014.
His research has focused on the causes, risk factors and outcomes for children with heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, and congenital heart disease.
In 1997 Prof Weintraub established the National Australian Childhood Cardiomyopathy Study which has tracked a national cohort of children with cardiomyopathy for 25 years. He has been a member of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) consortium since 2010 where he is responsibilities are across paediatrics and cardiology in the Asia Pacific region. He is a founding member of the Pulmonary Hypertension Society of Australia and New Zealand, the ANZ Sudden Cardiac Death Study and the ANZ Fontan Registry.
He has participated in international studies which have defined outcomes for children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and have developed risk prediction models for sudden cardiac death in childhood.
Prof Weintraub is a co-investigator in the Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance and the Victorian site lead for the Australian Genomics Health Alliance Cardiovascular Flagship. He co-chairs the Research Committee of the Standards of Care advisory group to the federal government.
