Speakers

Shawn graduated with a medical degree from the University of Liverpool (UK) before undertaking postgraduate medical training in Manchester, England. He then spent 6 months working in cardiology at the National Heart Centre in Singapore before relocating to New Zealand in 2014. Shawn has worked at several New Zealand public hospitals including North Shore, Auckland City and Middlemore Hospitals.

 

He has a specialist interest in Cardiac Electrophysiology with 13 peer-reviewed publications on the topic and in 2020 Shawn received his Graduate Diploma in Cardiac Electrophysiology. Shawn is continuing his education further and is pursuing a Doctor of Medicine (MD) on cardiac implantable electronic device use, implant trends and outcomes in New Zealand. 

Dr Warwick Jaffe has been practising clinical cardiology for the last thirty years. After initial training at Greenlane Hospital, he travelled to the United States as a recipient of a Foggity NIH scholarship. He trained in echocardiography and returned to Greenlane Hospital in 1990. He has been a recipient of several research grants.

 

Dr Jaffe began private practice in 1991 and has been full-time at Ascot Hospital since 1999. For the past fifteen years, he has practised interventional cardiology and he has carried out more than 3,000 angioplasties. Dr Jaffe travels to Samoa to work pro-bono for the Samoan Health Service. He has made more than thirty trips over the last ten years. He is primarily involved with service development which includes teaching junior doctors to diagnose and treat heart problems.

Nicky was trained in the UK; qualified in 1999, completing general medical training until 2003 and then specialist cardiology training until 2014. This time included a one-year Cardiac Imaging Fellowship here in Auckland, two years as a clinical lecturer at the University of Birmingham and three years of dedicated research with heart imaging techniques (leading to the award of British Cardiac Society Young Investigator of the Year in 2009) and a PhD from the University of Birmingham (UK) in 2011.

 

She worked as a cardiologist for three years in one of the UK’s largest hospitals before emigrating to NZ with her family in July 2018. She has worked at Auckland District Health Board for the past 2 years as a full time cardiologist and last year became Director of Echocardiography.

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Dr Niels van Pelt is a consultant cardiologist at Auckland City Hospital. After training in Cardiology in Auckland he completed a fellowship in non invasive cardiac imaging at the Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.  Prior to his current appointment, he was a cardiologist at Middlemore Hospital, Auckland for 14 years where he established the cardiac CT programme.

 

He is a previous Chair of the New Zealand Cardiac Imaging Working Group of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. He has also been on the CT conjoint committee for the certification of cardiac CT in Australia and NZ. Niels is interested in all areas of adult cardiology with a particular clinical interest in risk factor modification, ischaemic heart disease, valvular heart disease and cardiac imaging including all aspects of echocardiography and cardiac CT.

Patrick is dual trained in both Internal Medicine and Cardiology. He completed his Cardiology training at the Greenlane Cardiovascular Service, Auckland, and has been a practising cardiologist since 2007. He undertook a Fellowship in Advanced Imaging at the Cleveland Clinic, USA, in 2010.

 

In addition to his work at Ascot, Patrick is also employed as a cardiologist at North Shore and Waitakere Hospitals. He has expertise in cardiac imaging, personalised healthcare and angiography, and in 2013 he completed a PhD in cardiovascular medicine. He enjoys helping patients with the use of innovative technologies and the latest developments in genomic medicine, whereby information about an individual’s genetic makeup can be utilised to tailor treatment specifically to the patient. He is the founder of Theranostics Laboratory.

Sergej undertook his subspeciality training at Auckland, North Shore, and Middlemore Hospital before being accepted at the prestigious Toronto General Hospital. He became the first formally trained Cardiac High-risk Interventionalist in Canada and New Zealand and helped to develop this new field. He has developed significant expertise in advanced coronary artery disease treatments and managing critically unwell patients.

 

Sergej began as a consultant at Waikato Hospital before becoming an Interventional Cardiologist at Auckland City Hospital. He has been the author of several publications and a speaker at multiple international conferences.

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Dr Glenie completed his FRACP in Internal Medicine in 2008 before starting Cardiology training at Greenlane Hospital. Dr Glenie is interested in both coronary artery intervention as well as advanced cardiac imaging techniques involving cardiac MRI. He completed an advanced imaging fellowship programme at Greenlane Hospital involving cardiac MRI and cardiac CT scanning.

 

Having finished this he then completed a coronary interventional fellowship at Greenlane Hospital. Tim then had the opportunity to work with internationally recognised cardiologist Dr Stephen Worthley at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in Australia. Here Dr Glenie was involved in clinical trial work with Cardiac MRI, coronary angioplasty and percutaneous aortic valve implantation.

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After graduating with her medical degree from the University of Otago, Mansi gained experience working in roles in various hospitals in both the South Island and North Island. Mansi commenced her Cardiology specialist advanced training in 2013 and in 2017 she became a member of the Australasian College of Physicians. A recipient of the National Heart Foundation Overseas Training and Research Fellowship grant, Mansi undertook fellowships in Echocardiography at Vancouver General Hospital and Advanced Cardiac Imaging (including Cardiac CT and Cardiac MRI) at St Paul’s Hospital (Vancouver, Canada) between 2018 and 2020.

 

Returning to New Zealand in April 2020, Mansi became a Cardiologist at Middlemore Hospital where she continues to practice, helping patients with personalized cardiac care, diagnosis and treatment. Her interests include valvular heart disease from diagnosis to management.

After basic medical training at the Auckland School of Medicine, Dr Hitesh Patel completed his medical and cardiology registrar training at hospitals in Auckland and Tauranga. He did his cardiology specialist training at Greenlane Hospital.

 

Dr Patel has a strong interest in general cardiology with a focus on ischaemic and valvular heart disease and the use of cardiac imaging for diagnosis. His position as a full-time cardiologist at North Shore and Waitakere Hospitals, continues to provide him with exposure to the full range of cardiac problems that can affect patients.

 

He enjoys keeping up to date with new research and has made contributions to research, particularly as a sub or principal investigator, for many multi-center trials. He is a willing participant in endeavours to improve treatment of heart disease and in the last two years has travelled to assist the group that are providing cardiac surgery to patients in Fiji.