Dr David Winlaw (Cardio-Thoracic Surgeon)
- Name
- Dr David Scott Winlaw
- Qualifications
- MBBS University of New South Wales 1990
- Occupation
- Cardio-thoracic Surgeon
- Gender
- Male
- Medical Specialties
- Cardio-thoracic Surgery
- Heart Transplant
- Lung Transplant
- Links
- http://www.childrensheartsurgerysydney.com.au/
- Phone
- (02) 9635 5298
David Winlaw is Professor in Paediatric Cardiac Surgery at the Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney. He is the Head of Paediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery within the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network, incorporating The Children's Hospital at Westmead and Sydney Children's Hospital. David also leads the Heart Centre at The Children's Hospital at Westmead, and Kids Heart Research incorporating laboratory and clinical research at the Westmead site.
David's key clinical contributions are in neonatal and infant heart surgery, leading the hypoplastic left heart program and clinical research related to outcomes in paediatric cardiac surgery. He is the NSW lead of the Fontan Registry and a chief investigator on the NHMRC grants supporting this work. His research interests include the genetic contribution to the development of congenital heart disease. In 2003 he established the Kids Heart Research DNA Bank to facilitate work in this area and has published extensively in this field with local studies and in support of local (Professor Richard Harvey, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute) and international collaborations. He is honorary Faculty at the Victor Chang. From 2005-2010 David was a Career Development Fellow with the National Heart Foundation of Australia. In 2009 he was awarded the Discipline's award for Postgraduate Teaching. He has supervised two completed PhD studies, with a further student nearing completion.
Professor Winlaw has been an invited speaker at the scientific meetings of both the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology. He is regularly invited to speak at the Cardiac Society for Australia and New Zealand meetings. In 2012 and 2013 he was invited faculty meetings in Japan, Taiwan, USA and Indonesia. He operates in Yangon Myanmar on an annual basis as part of the Open Heart Internation program. Prof Winlaw was the clinical co-chair of the scientific committee for the World Congress of Paediatrics and Child Health, held in Cairns in 2009. Until recently he was the cardiothoracic specialty editor for the Australia and New Zealand Journal of Surgery and Heart, Lung and Circulation and was Member of the Medical Services Advisory Committee, Department of Health and Aging. He is a member of the Editorial Board for the World Journal for Paediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery.
- Hospital Affiliations
- The Children's Hospital at Westmead
- Affiliated Clinics
- Heart Centre for Children
- Affiliated Organisations
- Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons (ANZSCTS)
- Topics
- Paediatric and Congenital Heart Disease
- Transplantation
Practice Locations
Sydney
- Heart Centre for Children
- Address
- The Children's Hospital at Westmead
212 Hawkesbury Rd
Westmead NSW 2145
Australia
- Phone
- 02 9845 2345
