Dr James Wong (Cardiologist)
- Name
- Dr James Wong
- Qualifications
- MBBS University of Melbourne 1985
- Occupation
- Cardiologist
- Gender
- Male
- Languages Spoken
- Cantonese
- Chinese
- Medical Specialties
- Cardiology
Associate Professor James Wong is the Director of the Echocardiography Laboratory and Heart failure specialist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
He graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1985 with honours in Medicine and Surgery. Trained in cardiology at The Royal Melbourne Hospital and was awarded a National Heart Foundation scholarship to complete a PhD in vascular biology at the Baker Medical Research Institute.
Post graduate training was obtained in an Advance Cardiac Imaging Fellowship in the Cardiovascular Imaging Laboratory at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio USA.
He won first prize in the advanced fellow's research award for two successive years at the Cleveland Clinic, first prize at the Ohio Chapter of the ACC Young Investigators award in 1997, first prize in the Young Investigators Award of the American Society of Echocardiograpy 1998 for work on ultrasound facilitated gene therapy.
Main interests are in treatment of heart failure, valvular heart disease, cardiac ultrasound and stress echocardiography
- Hospital Affiliations
- The Alfred
- John Fawkner Private Hospital
- Affiliated Clinics
- The Heart Specialists
Practice Locations
Melbourne
- The Heart Specialists
- Address
- John Fawkner Private Hospital
275 Moreland Road
Coburg VIC 3058
Australia
- Phone
- 03 9915 4800
- Fax
- 03 9915 4833
