Dr Ian Wilcox (Cardiologist)

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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

NSW

Central Sydney Cardiology
RPAH Medical Centre
Suite 407 100 Carillon Ave
Newtown NSW 2042 
Australia
02 9516 3456
02 9516 3934