Dr Ian Wilcox (Cardiologist)
- Name
- Dr Ian Wilcox
- Qualifications
- BSc 1976
- FRACP 1987
- Occupation
- Cardiologist
- Gender
- Male
- Languages Spoken
- French
- Medical Specialties
- Cardiology
Professor Ian Wilcox was born in Melbourne and undertook medical training in Newcastle on Tyne (UK), including a BMedSci with First Class Honours in Immunology. His postgraduate education and training in Cardiology was at Sydney University and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
Professor Wilcox's clinical research career includes a PhD on Predicting Risk in Unstable Angina funded by a National Heart Foundation Scholarship. His postdoctoral research on the Cardiovascular Consequences of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea was funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council in collaboration with Professor Colin Sullivan.
He has supervised 8 PhD and Masters Students. Current research interests include the role of sleep apnoea in cardiac arrhythmias, congestive heart failure, large vessel vascular disease and atherosclerosis. He has over 40 publications in major journals and 1200 citations in the medical literature.
In addition he has a major interest in innovation in clinical research and practice in cardiology including new methods to detect heart failure decompensation.
Professor Wilcox jointly established the Cardiac Surgery Program at Strathfield Private Hospital in 1991 and founded Central Sydney Cardiology, an academic private practice, in 1999.
- Hospital Affiliations
- Strathfield Private Hospital
- Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
- Affiliated Clinics
- RPAH Medical Centre
- Central Sydney Cardiology
- Affiliated Universities
- University of Sydney
- Topics
- Complex adult heart disease including coronary
- Valvular and myocardial disease
- Cardiac arrhythmias
- Inherited heart disease
- Cardiac imaging
- Heart-lung interactions
Practice Locations
Sydney
- Central Sydney Cardiology
- Address
- RPAH Medical Centre
Suite 407 100 Carillon Ave
Newtown NSW 2042
Australia
- Phone
- 02 9516 3456
- Fax
- 02 9516 3934
