Gemma Figtree, MD
The University of Sydney
Sydney,
NSW
Australia
Biographical Sketch: Gemma Figtree is a Professor in Medicine at the University of Sydney and an Interventional Cardiologist at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. She co-leads the Cardiovascular Theme for Sydney Health Partners, and is President of the Australian Cardiovascular Alliance. She is committed to improving the care for heart attack patients. She has dedicated herself throughout her career to unravelling key mechanisms underlying susceptibility and response to heart attack, with studies extending from the bench to large cohort studies and clinical trials. Discoveries in her Laboratory have been published in leading journals Lancet, Circulation, JACC and European Heart Journal, with > 200 publications. GF is a principal investigator on grants >$19 AUD Mill. She was awarded a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Excellence Award for Top Ranked Practitioner Fellow (Australia), commencing in 2018. In 2019 she received the prestigious NSW Ministerial Award for Cardiovascular Research Excellence.
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