Dr Chris Anthony
Dr Chris Anthony is a fractional Staff Specialist at The Alfred and the Director of Cardiac Diagnostics and Imaging at Epworth. He specialises in advanced multimodality cardiac imaging, structural heart disease and interventional echocardiography. His work focuses on imaging for transcatheter structural heart interventions and advanced assessment of right heart function and reserve, an area of growing importance in the management of complex structural and valvular heart disease.
Dr Anthony has particular expertise in structural heart imaging and procedural echocardiography, providing advanced imaging assessment and intraprocedural guidance for patients undergoing minimally invasive valve repair and replacement procedures. His clinical practice includes multimodality imaging with Echocardiography, Cardiac MRI and Cardiac CT, with additional interests in Cardiomyopathies and Pericardial disease.
Dr Anthony completed cardiology training at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney before undertaking a PhD in Cardiac MRI tissue characterisation techniques in the assessment of the cardiac allograft at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute through the University of New South Wales. His work was supported by scholarships from the National Heart Foundation and the Australian Government Research Training Program.
His research received the President’s Prize and Early Career Research Award from the Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand (2019) and was selected as a finalist for the Ralph Reader Clinical Prize of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (2020). His first-in-world study demonstrating the feasibility of a Cardiac MRI-based “virtual biopsy” technique for heart transplant rejection surveillance was published in Circulation.
Following completion of his doctoral work, Dr Anthony undertook a two-year advanced multimodality cardiac imaging fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, with specialised training in Structural Echocardiography, Cardiac CT and Cardiac MRI, where he was selected as the inaugural Ellen H. and F. Gene Braun Fellow.
His ongoing interests include structural heart imaging for transcatheter valve therapies and advanced imaging of right ventricular function and reserve, particularly in patients undergoing structural heart interventions and those with complex myocardial and pericardial disease.