Structural Heart Disease Academy.
SHDA.
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Structural Heart Disease Australia Inc. (SHDA) is an educational site focused on valvular and structural cardiac diseases. The website was started by a multidisciplinary group of echocardiographers, anaesthetists, clinical and interventional cardiologists, and cardiothoracic surgeons who have incorporated an association to provide a useful learning resource for medical professionals. We organise and host multidisciplinary symposiums throughout the year where experts in the field discuss issues from the diagnosis through to treatment and follow-up.
Sharon is the founder of Structural Heart Disease Australia and resides on their board, she coordinates 2 symposiums a year which are streamed nationally and internationally for this association. Sharon’s clinical employment consists of Australia’s first dedicated CardiOncology clinic catering to the North Shore of Sydney, Royal North Shore Hospital ICU College accredited echo physicians training program (which she wrote and now implements) and various outpatient clinics. She is a national and international invited speaker and regularly designs and implements workshops at these conferences in Echocardiography from novice to advanced techniques. She qualified in Cardiac Sciences in 1998 from University of Sydney and QUT.
He is the Co-Director of Structural Heart Disease Australia since its inception in 2014. He has been awarded fellowships in the American College of Cardiology and the American Society of Echocardiography. He was awarded a Master of Medical Science by the University of Queensland in 1999 for original research into cardiac diastolic function. He has been Associate Professor of Medicine at his alumni, the University of Queensland since 2004 and became a Professor in 2018; he is the Director of Echocardiography at The Prince Charles Hospital. He has published over three hundred papers, abstracts and book chapters in peer-reviewed major journals.