Strucure
President: Dr Leo Mahar
Past-President: Prof. Michael Feneley
Hon. Secretary: Prof. David Brieger
Hon. Assist. Secretary/Treasurer: Dr Michael Ward
The board is made up of an elected member from each state of Australia and one from New Zealand (regions). In addition to the elected regional board members, there are representatives from various areas and specialties of cardiology - more details about the board.
Number of members: 1957
Year of foundation: 1952
Year of ESC affiliation: 2008
Contact information
Office address:
145 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
Tel: +61 2 9256 5452
Fax: +61 2 9247 7916
Email: info@csanz.edu.au
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Activities
The Society’s main activities involve:
- development of guidelines for practice
- maintenance of professional standards
- organisation of the largest medical meeting held in our area (approximately 2000 delegates) held annually
- funding and mentoring of research scholarships and travelling fellowships to encourage young investigators
- promotion of excellence in cardiology for both physicians, nurses, allied health workers, researchers, scientists, etc
- to provide advice to Government on the development and descriptors for new item numbers and to advise on issues related to cardiolog
- to administer training of cardiology through the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
Publications
Journal
The Society’s Journal is Heart Lung and Circulation published by Elsevier. It is currently published bi-monthly with 3 supplements per year. We anticipate that it will move to monthly publication in 2009.