CARDIAC | Pathology series: Echo in advanced heart failure
Tracks
209 | Cardiac GE HealthCare
Friday, June 13, 2025 |
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM |
209 | Cardiac GE Healthcare |
Overview
Chair | Mr Chee Lim Liew
Speaker
Assoc Prof. Stuart Moir
Lead For Cardiac MRI
VHH / Melbourne Heart Care
Features of advanced heart failure on echocardiography
12:30 PM - 1:00 PMAbstract
This will discuss echo features of heart failure generally and then focus on assessment of patients in the deteriorating clinical state.
Biography
Assoc Prof. Stuart Moir |
Melbourne Heart Care
Assoc Prof Stuart Moir is a clinical cardiologist and non invasive imaging specialist, with expertise in all forms of echocardiography (TTE, stress, TOE, contrast echocardiography) as well as cardiac CT and cardiac MRI.
He completed his clinical cardiology training and an 18 month fellowship in echocardiography at MonashHeart in 2002. Stuart then undertook a PhD with the Cardiac Imaging Research Group, University of Queensland, Department of Medicine, examining the application of contrast echocardiography for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac disease. This led to several publications in leading international journals, and as a research fellow he was awarded the prestigious combined National Heart Foundation and National Health and Medical Research Council Scholarship, presented many papers at national and international conferences and was a finalist for the Ralph Reader Prize at the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand.
Stuart then acted as the contrast echocardiography fellow at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Mn USA, before returning to Australia to divide his time between private practice and a staff specialist position at MonashHEART. He trained in cardiac CT in San Francisco in 2008 and completed a cardiac MRI fellowship at The Heart Hospital in London in 2013. He is currently the Lead Cardiologist for the cardiac MRI service at MonashHEART.
He is a married father of three young children and is a long suffering Richmond supporter.
Dr James Anstey
Royal Melbourne Hospital
Mechanical circulatory support for the critically ill - what should we look for?
1:00 PM - 1:30 PMAbstract
James' talk will focus on the assessment of the critically-ill patient before, during and after mechanical cardiac support, including by ECMO and Impella.
He will look at important things to assess by ultrasound in this complex patient group, pitfalls, and how to interpret findings in the setting of mechanical cardiac support.
He will look at important things to assess by ultrasound in this complex patient group, pitfalls, and how to interpret findings in the setting of mechanical cardiac support.
Biography
Dr James Anstey |
Royal Melbourne Hospital
James Anstey is Deputy Director of the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) Intensive Care Unit, head of the RMH ECMO Service, and leads the ICU echocardiography programme. He has extensive experience in critical care echocardiography, both as a practitioner and echocardiography educator, running the RMH critical course since 2015.
Dr Caitlin Cheshire
Cardiologist - Advanced Heart Failure And Imaging
Alfred Health
Therapies in heart failure
1:30 PM - 2:00 PMAbstract
An overview of the workup and management of heart failure therapies, including summaries of diagnostics, medical and device therapy and evaluation of response to therapy.
Biography
Dr Caitlin Cheshire |
Alfred Health
Dr Caitlin Cheshire is a Cardiologist and Heart Failure & Cardiac Imaging Specialist at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne.
After graduating with Honours from Monash University, Dr Cheshire undertook Physician Training at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, followed by Cardiology Advanced Training at Monash Heart. She then completed a Fellowship in Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation at Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom, as well as an Echocardiography Fellowship at the Alfred Hospital.
She currently works as a member of the Alfred Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation unit, as well as involvement in the echocardiography, structural heart disease and cardio-oncology programs.
Dr Caitlin Cheshire
Cardiologist - Advanced Heart Failure And Imaging
Alfred Health
Live scanning - Scanning the heart failure patient
2:00 PM - 2:20 PMAbstract
Live Scanning of a patient with severe cardiomyopathy and mitral regurgitation.
Discussion of role of repeat echocardiogram assessments in heart failure patients and assessment of mitral regurgitation for potential structural intervention.
Discussion of role of repeat echocardiogram assessments in heart failure patients and assessment of mitral regurgitation for potential structural intervention.
Biography
Dr Caitlin Cheshire |
Alfred Health
Dr Caitlin Cheshire is a Cardiologist and Heart Failure & Cardiac Imaging Specialist at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne.
After graduating with Honours from Monash University, Dr Cheshire undertook Physician Training at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, followed by Cardiology Advanced Training at Monash Heart. She then completed a Fellowship in Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation at Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom, as well as an Echocardiography Fellowship at the Alfred Hospital.
She currently works as a member of the Alfred Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation unit, as well as involvement in the echocardiography, structural heart disease and cardio-oncology programs.
