Professional Special Interests
Valvular heart disease, cardiomyopathies, pericardial disease and adult congenital heart disease.
Biography
Associate Professor Paul Calafiore is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and trained at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne before traveling to the USA where he undertook an Advanced Cardiology Fellowship in Echocardiography at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
Upon returning to Australia, Paul was appointed as a Staff Specialist at The Austin Hospital where he introduced transoesophageal echocardiography to Victoria, as well as bringing intraoperative echocardiography – a fundamental advancement to the initiation of mitral valve repair surgery at the Austin Hospital.
During his years as Director of Echocardiography at Austin Health and at Epworth Richmond, Paul introduced exercise and pharmacological stress echocardiography as well as 3D transoesophageal echocardiography.
