Cardiologist
Flinders University
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Prof Joseph Selvanayagam is an internationally renowned cardiologist with an interest in cardiac imaging, clinical trials, and cardiomyopathies.
He is Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at Flinders University; Director of Cardiology Research, and Cardiac Imaging at Flinders Medical Centre; Senior Research Fellow at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute; and Managing Partner at Heart & Vascular, Adelaide.
Prof Selvanayagam’s clinical and research interests include cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging, heart failure, hypertrophic and amyloid cardiomyopathy. His cardiac imaging research program uses cardiac imaging to answer mechanistic questions in three broad areas: heart failure and cardiomyopathy, coronary artery disease, and arrhythmia disorders. Prof Selvanayagam is committed to promoting the work and successes of cardiovascular imaging research both local, and internationally.
Prof Selvanayagam graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, 1st Class Honours, University of Adelaide in 1995. He became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) (Cardiology) in 2002 and obtained his PhD from Oxford University (DPhil) in 2005. For his doctoral and post-doctoral work,
Prof Selvanayagam was awarded the Wellcome Trust (UK) Cardiovascular Research Fellowship, UK Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme, and the Intermediate Research Fellowship from the British Heart Foundation.
He has clinched many national and international awards over the years, including young investigator awards from the American Heart Association and the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance . In 2004, Prof Selvanayagam was awarded the most productive doctoral researcher merit award in the Dept of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford. He also received the Cardiac Society of Australia & New Zealand (CSANZ) Service Award in 2016, and Outstanding Research Achievement for the Southern Area Health Network, Adelaide, in 2017.
Throughout his research career, Prof Selvanayagam has attracted more than AUD 35 million in grant funding. He has published over 500 peer reviewed manuscripts, abstracts, and book chapters.
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