Faculty
Four convenors from Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, trained on three continents, leading a faculty of 10.
Course convenors
Convenor
Concord Hospital, NSW
Clin Prof Andy Yong is Director of the Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory at Concord Hospital and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney and Macquarie University. His academic interest is coronary physiology. He has published more than 100 research papers and is a regular invited faculty speaker at national and international cardiology meetings.
Convenor
Concord Hospital, NSW
Dr Chris Wong is a staff interventional cardiologist at Concord Hospital and Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney. After training in cardiology at Concord and completing a PhD at the University of Sydney, he undertook a clinical fellowship in coronary and structural intervention at Stanford Hospital and an American Heart Association postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. His research uses real-time coronary physiology to guide therapy in coronary microvascular dysfunction.
Convenor
Royal Melbourne Hospital, VIC
Dr Sinjini Biswas is an interventional and structural cardiologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. She trained in cardiology at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and completed a PhD on PCI registries at Monash University, followed by fellowships in TAVI at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and in complex and CTO PCI at the Bristol Heart Institute, where she was appointed Consultant Interventional Cardiologist. She teaches intracoronary imaging at the Asia Pacific Society of Cardiology Imaging and Physiology Course and previously organised the Optima London Fellows Course.
Convenor
Royal Perth Hospital, WA
Dr Primero Ng is a consultant interventional cardiologist at Royal Perth Hospital, where he co-leads the Complex Coronary Therapeutics Programme in chronic total occlusion and complex PCI. He completed his complex and CTO PCI fellowship at the University of Washington, Seattle, under Dr Bill Lombardi, Dr Kathleen Kearney and Dr Lorenzo Azzalini, and has published widely in the field. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, and runs visiting cardiology clinics across regional and remote Western Australia.
Six further faculty from across Australia and New Zealand will be announced with the final program in January 2027.