Meet our panel of medical specialists

Research Review Australia works with over 70 local medical specialists to select and advise on the most important research from around the world. They advise on what really matters, what impact it has on local healthcare and what we need to do in our daily practice to accomodate new skills and knowledge. Select a category below to see more about each of our expert advisors.

Professor John Atherton

Professor John Atherton

Professor John Atherton, Director of Cardiology at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Professor, University of Queensland and Adjunct Professor, Queensland University of Technology. He previously chaired the Asia-Pacific Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Registry SAC and the CSANZ Heart Failure Council. He has been an appointed member of the Australian Government Medical Services Advisory Committee and sat on the National Heart Foundation Heart Failure Guidelines executive writing group. Research interests include investigating novel methods to detect presymptomatic cardiac disease and cardiac genetics. Contributions to statewide service enhancement include coordinated heart failure disease management and co-establishing a cardiac genetics service... read more »

Professor Peter Macdonald

Professor Peter Macdonald

Peter Macdonald is a Conjoint Professor of Medicine in the University of New South Wales, senior staff cardiologist in the Heart & Lung Transplant Unit at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney and co-head of the Transplantation Research Laboratory at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute. He is a past President of the Transplantation Society of Australia & New Zealand (TSANZ). His major research interests over the last 20 years have been in the areas of heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, transplant allograft rejection, donor management and organ preservation. He has published over 200 scientific papers, including six national guidelines, 15 book chapters, 15 invited reviews and 190 manuscripts in peer-reviewed scientific journals... read more »