Prof Anthony Dart
Prof Anthony Dart is a cardiologist specialising in Lipid disorders.
He completed a BA (physiology), DPhil (neurophysiology) and studies (BM BCh) at the University of Oxford. He received clinical training at University affiliated hospitals in Wales and Scotland leading to RCP specialist accreditation in General Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Professor Dart relocated to Melbourne in 1988 to take up a position at the Baker Medical Research Institute and The Alfred. He is a FRACP and FRCP.
He had had an extensive research interest, both clinical and laboratory based, with more than 350 publications. In addition, he holds a patent under current commercial development. He spent 2 years in the Department of Cardiology, Heidelberg, Germany as a Royal Society European Exchange Fellow. Professor Dart was in receipt of both personal (Senior Principal Research Fellow) and direct research costs from the NHMRC from 1988 to 2017. Professor Dart was previously Acting Director (2002-2004) and Director (2004-2017) of the department of Cardiovascular Medicine at The Alfred.
Professor Dart's clinical interests, in addition to general cardiology, include hyperlipidaemia and control of cardiac risk factors.