(Each abstract links to full text in Heart, Lung and Circulation)
Abstract: A Novel Polymeric Heart Valve: Manufacturing and Hydrodynamic Assessment.
Click on the prize winners’ abstract title below each name to read each winning abstract as published in HLC Volume 33 Supplement 4S121-S598. (free access)
Judges: Dr Jim Crowhurst, Ms Hazel Mountford, Prof Andrew Maiorana
Abstract: Optimising Cardiovascular outcome Prediction: an advanced AI-enhanced CAC-DAD score
Judges: Prof Liza Thomas, A/Prof Majo Joseph, Prof Tony Stanton
Judges: Dr Elizabeth Robertson, Dr Sonia Shah, A/Prof Sandhir Prasad
Abstract: Nurse-supported sedation for Transcatheter Aortic Valve implants: a retrospective analysis.
Judges: Mr Robert Zecchin, Prof Patricia Davidson, Prof Jeroen Hendriks
Judges: Dr Gareth Wynn, A/Prof Tom Briffa, Prof John Beltrame
Judges: Dr Alicia Chan, Prof Andrew Sindone, Prof Gemma Figtree
Judges: Dr Andrew Martin, Prof Rukshen Weerasooriya, A/Prof Hitesh Patel
Judges: Prof Robert Weintraub, A/Prof Dominica Zentner, Dr Julian Ayer
Judges: Prof Will Parsonage, A/Prof Lana McClements, Prof Diane Fatkin
Poster Title: Fully automated artificial intelligence-based frailty model predicts heart failure and death after transcatheter aortic valve replacement
Judges: Prof Julie Redfern, Dr Georgia Chaseling
Poster Title: Improved cardiac function after sleeve gastrectomy is associated with elevated brown fat activity
Judges: A/Prof Matt Worthley, A/Prof Dominica Zentner
Poster Title: Prognostic utility of urinary sodium concentration in response to initial intravenous diuretic therapy in predicting adverse outcomes in Acute Heart failure
Judges: Dr Kavitha Muthiah, Dr Felicity Lee
Poster Title: Peer support interventions improve disease self-management after coronary heart disease diagnosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Judges: Prof Rochelle Wynne, Prof Jeroen Henriks
Poster Title: Abnormalities in cardiopulmonary exercise test associated with more advance atrial cardiomyopathy
Judges: Dr Lee Nedkoff, Prof Andre Le Gerche
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.
Hear from Dr Amanda Lonn, a Swedish physiotherapist, now a Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation Post-doctoral Research Fellow at University of Canberra.
Her area of interest is physical activity and sedentary time in secondary prevention of patients with cardiac disease.
Below, listen to Amanda as she discusses her work with Dr Niamh Chapman at the CSANZ ASM sound booth CSANZ G0.
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