Professional Special Interests
Atherosclerosis, Congenital Heart Disease and Pulmonary vascular disease.
Biography
Professor David Celermajer is the Scandrett Professor of Cardiology and Head of the Discipline of Cardiology at The University of Sydney. David is also an Academic Cardiologist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, where he is Director of Adult Congenital Heart Services and Director of Echocardiography. He is also a Staff Cardiologist at the Children’s Hospital in Westmead. In addition to these roles, David is also the Clinical Director of the Heart Research Institutes and serves on the Board of Directors of Heart Kids Australia. He is currently the Chairman of the Congenital Heart Alliance of Australia and New Zealand. He has been a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science since 2006 and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science since 2018. In 2014, He was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO).
Professor Celermajer sits on the Editorial Boards of many of the world’s leading Cardiology Journals, including the European Heart Journal, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and Heart. He has published over 400 papers, with career citations of over 60 000 and an H-index of over 100. In recognition of this, he was awarded the inaugural Charles Blackburn Medal from the University of Sydney, for outstanding Clinical Research. With established research teams at the Heart Research Institute and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, he applies basic and clinical science to investigate his main research interests
