Our team
Find out more about our medical staff, nursing staff and technologists.
Senior medical staff
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Professor Kaye is the Director of Cardiology and a senior cardiologist in the Heart Failure & Transplant service at The Alfred.
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Dr Tony Walton is Deputy Director and Head of Catheter Laboratory in the Department of Cardiology. He is a clinician, interventional cardiologist who specialises in structural heart procedures.
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Dr Peter Bergin is the Medical Director of the Heart Failure & Transplant service at The Alfred in Melbourne, a position he has held for over 20 years.
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Dr Angeline Leet is Deputy Director and Head of Echocardiography in the Department of Cardiology. She is a full time cardiologist in the Heart Failure & Transplant service at The Alfred.
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A/Prof James Hare is a cardiologist in the Heart Failure & Transplant service at The Alfred in Melbourne.
Associate Professor James Shaw is one of the Deputy Directors and Head of Education and Training in Cardiology, and has held this position since 2014.
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Associate Professor Hitesh Patel is one of the Deputy Directors of Cardiology and Head (since 2024) of the statewide Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant unit at The Alfred in Melbourne.
Medical staff
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Associate Professor Ingrid Hopper is a consultant physician at Alfred Health.
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Dr Anthony is an advanced multi-modality cardiac imaging and general cardiologist with an interest in Structural Echocardiography, Cardiac MRI, Cardiac CT and Pericardial Disease.
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Dr William Chan is a consultant and interventional cardiologist at The Alfred.
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Dr. Gutman is a cardiologist at The Alfred specialising in heart failure, transplantation and non-invasive imaging (including cardiac MRI, cardiac CT and echocardiography).
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Professor Peter Kistler is a clinician cardiologist and electrophysiologist and an international leader in the treatment of heart rhythm disorders.
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Dr Shane Nanayakkara is an interventional and structural cardiologist and researcher, with a PhD in heart failure and research interests in artificial intelligence.
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Dr Rohit Samuel is an interventional and general cardiologist at The Alfred.
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Prof Dion Stub is a clinician, interventional cardiologist and a specialist in structural heart procedures.
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Dr Hari Sugumar is a specialist cardiologist and electrophysiologist.
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Alex Voskoboinik is a Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist.
Nursing & technology staff
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Kellie is a heart failure nurse consultant who specialises in in the acute setting with pre-heart transplant patient care.
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Rox is a clinical nurse consultant who specialises in structural heart nursing.
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Ashlee Considine is a heart failure nurse consultant who specialises in in the acute setting with pre-heart transplant patient care.
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Damien is the chief cardiac technologist in the Department of Cardiology.