Tony is an academic interventional cardiologist who completed his medical degree at the University of Melbourne. Subsequent basic training and cardiology training was at Royal Melbourne Hospital. In 2000 he was awarded the Bryan Hudson medal for the highest nationwide score in the Royal Australasian College of Physicians examinations. Next, he completed a PhD at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute into biomechanical and genetic markers of coronary plaque instability. In 2006, Tony completed a one year interventional cardiology fellowship at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne. Most recently he spent three years in California, completing a three year post-doctoral fellowship in cardiac regeneration research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre, Los Angeles. He has been very fortunate to have a number of superb mentors to guide his development as a clinician and a scientist.

Tony’s research work has been presented at international cardiology meetings including the American College of Cardiology (ACC), Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT), and American Heart Association scientific meetings. He won the World Congress of Cardiology young investigator award in 2006, and was a finalist in the ACC young investigator award in 2009. His publications have appeared in JAMA, The Journal of the American College of Cardiology, JACC Cardiovascular Interventions, Atherosclerosis, and Cardiovascular Research.

Tony has an appointment as an interventionalist with the MonashHeart team and as a CJ Martin NHMRC Senior Research Fellow at Monash University. In addition to his role as a clinician, he will be continuing his pre-clinical research into stem cells and other attempts at regeneration of cardiac tissue.