Associate Professor Sujith Seneviratne MBBS, FRACP, FCSANZ 

Associate Professor Sujith Seneviratne completed his undergraduate medical degree at University of Melbourne in 1996. He undertook his general cardiology training at Wellington Hospital in New Zealand and interventional cardiology training at MonashHeart, Melbourne. Dr Seneviratne has also completed a research fellowship in cardiac CT at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston USA achieving level 3 competency.

Associate Professor Seneviratne was the Director of Coronary Care Unit at Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane prior to being appointed as the Head of Cardiac CT services and as an Interventional Cardiologist at MonashHeart in 2008. He is also in private practice with Melbourne Heart Care in Brighton and East Bentleigh as well as with MonashHeart Dandenong.

Associate Professor Seneviratne is known nationally and internationally for his work in cardiac CT and has published widely including, JACC, Circ Imaging, AJC, ATVB and Heart. He has also been an invited speaker at a number of local and international meetings and his main research interests include the role of cardiac CT in the setting of acute chest pain and CT stress perfusion. He also has a keen interest in teaching and has been a key member of the joint CT courses run by CVCTA and MonashHeart, and in providing practical training in cardiac CT to both cardiologists and radiologists around the country.

Associate Professor Seneviratne was a recipient of The National Heart Foundation of New Zealand Fellowship in 2006 and is a fellow of the CSANZ. He is currently the regional representative for Victoria for the Australian arm of SCCT (Society of Cardiac Computed Tomography).

Qualifications - Melbourne University

• Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery M.B.B.S. 1996

Qualifications

• Level 3 SCCT 2006

Professional registrations

• Registered medical practitioner, Australia        
• Previously registered medical practitioner in Queensland, New South Wales and New Zealand

Scientific and professional societies

• Fellow of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand.
• Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
• Member of Society of Cardiac CT
• Victorian representative for Australian arm of SCCT

• Head of Cardiac CT, MonashHeart, Southern Health
• Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine Monash University
• Interventional Cardiologist, MonashHeart, Southern Health
• Member, Senior Medical Staff, Southern Health
• Cardiologist (Brighton and East Bentleigh), Melbourne Heart Care

• National Heart Foundation New Zealand Research Fellowship, 2006
• Dean’s honours list, University of Melbourne, 1996
• Dean’s prize, St Vincent’s Clinical School, 1996
• Boots prize in pharmacology, University of Melbourne, 1993
• Dean’s honours list, University of Melbourne, 1993

• Victorian representative for Australian arm of Society of Cardiac Computed Tomography

Main research endeavours include:

• Cardiac CT angiography use in acute coronary syndrome
• Use of cardiac CT in reducing emergency department length of stay in patients with low to intermediate risk ACS
• CT stress perfusion imaging with cardiac CT

Top 10 peer reviewed articles in scientific journals

1.    Seneviratne SK, Truong QA, Bamberg F, Rogers IS, Shapiro MD, Schlett CL, Chae CU, Cury R, Abbara S, Brady TJ, Nagurney JT, Hoffmann U. Incremental Diagnostic Value of Regional Left Ventricular Function Over Coronary Assessment by Cardiac Computed Tomography for the Detection of Acute Coronary Syndrome in Patients with Acute Chest Pain -- From The ROMICAT Trial. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2010 May 19. [Epub ahead of print].

2.    Nasis A, Hope S, Cameron J, Meredith I, Troupis J, Crossett M, Seneviratne S. Diagnostic Accuracy of Non-Invasive Coronary Angiography with 320-Detector Row Computed Tomography. Amer Journal Cardio 2010 in press.

3.    Nasis A, Seneviratne S, DeFrance T. Advances in Contrast Enhanced Cardiovascular CT for the Evaluation of Myocardial Perfusion. Current Cardiov Imag Reports 2010 in press.

4.    Wijesekara H, Seneviratne S, Wolley, I. Cardiac Computed Tomography in Endocarditis. Heart  2010 Aug 23.

5.    Anil M. Ranchord, Sandhir Prasad, Sujith K. Seneviratne, Mark B. Simmonds, Phillip Matsis, Andrew Aitken. Same-Day Discharge is Feasible and Safe in the Majority of Elderly Patients Undergoing Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. The Journ Invasive Cardiology 2010 July.

6.    Sundeep S Pasricha, Dee Nandurkar, Sujith K Seneviratne, James D Cameron, Marcus Crossett, Michal E Schneider-Kolsky, John M Troupis. Image Quality of Coronary 320-MDCT in patients with Atrial Fibrillation: Initial experience. Amer Journ Radiol 2009 Dec.

7.    Truong QA, Bamberg F, Mahabadi AA, Toepker M, Lee H, Rogers IS, Seneviratne SK, Schlett CL, Brady TJ, Nagurney JT, Hoffmann U. Left atrial volume and index by multi-detector computed tomography: Comprehensive analysis from predictors of enlargement to predictive value for acute coronary syndrome (ROMICAT study). Int J Cardiol. 2009 Jul 15.

8.    Hoffmann U, Bamberg F, Chae CU, Nichols JH, Rogers IS, Seneviratne SK, Truong QA, Cury RC, Abbara S, Shapiro MD, Moloo J, Butler J, Ferencik M, Lee H, Jang IK, Parry BA, Brown DF, Udelson JE, Achenbach S, Brady TJ, Nagurney JT. Coronary computed tomography angiography for early triage of patients with acute chest pain: the ROMICAT (Rule Out Myocardial Infarction using Computer Assisted Tomography) trial. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2009 May 5;53(18):1642-50.

9.    Mahabadi AA, Samy B, Seneviratne SK, Toepker MH, Bamberg F, Hoffmann U, Truong QA. Quantitative assessment of left atrial volume by electrocardiographic-gated contrast-enhanced multidetector computed tomography. J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr. 2009 Mar-Apr;3(2):80-7. Epub 2009 Feb 14.

10.    Sarwar A, Rieber J, Mooyaart EA, Seneviratne SK, Houser SL, Bamberg F, Raffel OC, Gupta R, Kalra MK, Pien H, Lee H, Brady TJ, Hoffmann U. Calcified plaque: measurement of area at thin-section flat-panel CT and 64-section multidetector CT and comparison with histopathologic findings. Radiology. 2008 Oct;249(1):301-6. Epub 2008 Aug 18.
           

Recent invited international and national participation

Invited speaker. “Role of Cardiac CT in Interventional Cardiology.” Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. Adelaide 2010

Invited speaker. “CT Stress Perfusion, Latest Developments.” Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. Adelaide 2010

Invited speaker. “Role of Cardiac CT in Chronic Total Occlusions.” Chronic Total Occlusion Club. Brisbane 2010

Invited speaker. “Role of CT in Acute Chest Pain and CT Stress Perfusion.”  Sydney 2010

Invited speaker. “CT Stress Myocardial Perfusion.” Doctors Corner, Hong Kong Sanitarium Hospital, Hong Kong. March 2010

Invited speaker. "How to do CT Stress Perfusion." Cardiac CT Conference, Gold Coast. February 2010

Invited speaker. “CT in Interventional Cardiology.” Australia and New Zealand Endovascular Therapies meeting, 2009

Invited speaker. “Cardiac CT in Investigation of Chest Pain.” Australia and New Zealand Endovascular Therapies meeting, 2008