Our team
Find out more about our medical staff, nursing staff and technologists.
Senior medical staff
Prof David Kaye
Professor Kaye is the Director of Cardiology and a senior cardiologist in the Heart Failure & Transplant service at The Alfred.
A/Prof Antony Walton
Dr Tony Walton is Deputy Director and Head of Catheter Laboratory in the Department of Cardiology. He is a clinician, interventional cardiologist who specialises in structural heart procedures.
Dr Peter Bergin
Dr Peter Bergin is the Medical Director of the Heart Failure & Transplant service at The Alfred in Melbourne, a position he has held for over 20 years.
Dr Angeline Leet
Dr Angeline Leet is Deputy Director and Head of Echocardiography in the Department of Cardiology. She is a full time cardiologist in the Heart Failure & Transplant service at The Alfred.
A/Prof James Hare
A/Prof James Hare is a cardiologist in the Heart Failure & Transplant service at The Alfred in Melbourne.
A/Prof James Shaw
Associate Professor James Shaw is one of the Deputy Directors and Head of Education and Training in Cardiology, and has held this position since 2014.
Medical staff
A/Prof Ingrid Hopper
Associate Professor Ingrid Hopper is a consultant physician at Alfred Health.
Dr Chris Anthony
Dr Anthony is an advanced multi-modality cardiac imaging and general cardiologist with an interest in Structural Echocardiography, Cardiac MRI, Cardiac CT and Pericardial Disease.
Dr William Chan
Dr William Chan is a consultant and interventional cardiologist at The Alfred.
Dr Sarah Gutman
Dr. Gutman is a cardiologist at The Alfred specialising in heart failure, transplantation and non-invasive imaging (including cardiac MRI, cardiac CT and echocardiography).
Prof Peter Kistler
Professor Peter Kistler is a clinician cardiologist and electrophysiologist and an international leader in the treatment of heart rhythm disorders.
Dr Shane Nanayakkara
Dr Shane Nanayakkara is an interventional and structural cardiologist and researcher, with a PhD in heart failure and research interests in artificial intelligence.
Dr Hitesh Patel
Dr Hitesh Patel is a cardiologist and general physician in the Heart Failure, Transplant and Pacing service at the Alfred in Melbourne.
Dr Rohit Samuel
Dr Rohit Samuel is an interventional and general cardiologist at The Alfred.
Prof Dion Stub
Prof Dion Stub is a clinician, interventional cardiologist and a specialist in structural heart procedures.
Dr Hariharan Sugumar
Dr Hari Sugumar is a specialist cardiologist and electrophysiologist.
A/Prof Aleksandr Voskoboinik
Alex Voskoboinik is a Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist.
Nursing & technology staff
Ms Kellie Easton
Kellie is a heart failure nurse consultant who specialises in in the acute setting with pre-heart transplant patient care.
Ms Rox Johnston
Rox is a clinical nurse consultant who specialises in structural heart nursing.
Ms Ashlee Considine
Ashlee Considine is a heart failure nurse consultant who specialises in in the acute setting with pre-heart transplant patient care.
Mr Damien Needham
Damien is the chief cardiac technologist in the Department of Cardiology.
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