Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand

Structure

President: Dr James Cameron
President-Elect: Prof Richmond W. Jeremy, FESC 
Past-President: Dr Leo Mahar
Hon. Secretary: Dr Michael Ward
Hon. Assist. Secretary/Treasurer: Dr Aravinda Thiagalingam

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

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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.

Meetings

15-16 August 2012

ANZET 11
6th Annual Australia and New Zealand Endovascular Therapies Meeting
Brisbane - Australia

15-19 August 2012

CSANZ 2011
60th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand
Brisbane - Australia

Publications

Journal

The Society’s journal is Heart Lung and Circulation published by Elsevier. As of 2010 the journal is published monthly, and available online in full text.