Dr James Wong (Cardiologist)

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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

VIC

The Heart Specialists
John Fawkner Private Hospital
275 Moreland Road
Coburg VIC 3058 
Australia
03 9915 4800
03 9915 4833