Our Board and Committees
About
We are a professional society focused on facilitating research into pulmonary hypertension. We help educate members on the diagnosis and treatment of the disease.
Our members include cardiologists, respiratologists, immunologists, rheumatologists, nurses and allied health professionals.
We are managed by a Board of Directors and are supported by a number of specialist committees who are dedicated to bringing their expertise to the society.
Our Board
Dr David Playford
Board Member PHSANZ
Professor of Cardiology at the University of Notre Dame, Fremantle and runs the undergraduate Cardiology teaching program. He is the Professor of Cardiology at the Mount Hospital, and is actively involved in clinical management of pulmonary hypertension due to left heart disease. He is the co-principal investigator (with A/Prof. Geoff Strange) in the National Echo Database Australia (NEDA).
Our Committees
Executive Committee
Dr. Helen Whitford (President)
A/Prof. Robert Weintraub (General Secretary)
Dr. John Feenstra (Treasurer)
Advocacy Committee
A/Prof. Ken Whyte (Chair)
Kevin Burke (PHA representative)
Sharon. Gavioli (Lung Foundation representative)
A/Prof. Eugene Kotlyar
Prof. Trevor Williams
Registry Committee
Dr. Melanie Lavender (Chair)
Dr. Edmund Lau
Dr. Nicholas Collins
Dr. Nathan Dwyer
Dr. John Feenstra
Dr. James Anderson
Dr. Dominic Keating
A/Prof. Eugene Kotlyar
Dr. Tanya McWilliams
Dr. Vivek Thakkar
A/Prof. Robert Weintraub
Dr. Helen Whitford
A/Prof. Susanna Proudman
Research and Scientific Committee
Dr. Jeremy Wrobel (Chair)
Dr. Andrew Burns
Dr. John Feenstra
Dr. Edmund Lau
Prof. Norman Morris
Prof. Paul Reynolds
Dr. Vivek Thakkar
Education Committee
Dr. Helen Whitford
Dr. Clare Ellender
Dr. Nathan Dwyer
Dr. Anne Marie Chiffin
Dr. Vivek Thakkar
A/Prof. Rob Weintraub