Dr Steven Unger (Cardiologist)
- Name
- Dr Steven Anthony Unger
- Qualifications
- FRACP 1995
- MBBS Adelaide 1988
- Occupation
- Cardiologist
- Gender
- Male
- Medical Specialties
- Cardiology
- Nuclear Medicine
Dr Steve Unger is a graduate of the University of Adelaide, and undertook physician training at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Adelaide. He has specialist qualifications in nuclear medicine and cardiology, and also completed a PhD investigating the role of alterations in cardiac metabolism in the treatment of myocardial ischaemia. Following a post-doctoral stint at the University of Virginia Nuclear Cardiology Lab, he returned to take up the position of Director of Nuclear Medicine at both the Queen Elizabeth and Lyell McEwin Hospitals.
In addition he maintains a position as staff cardiologist and sees privately referred patients at both the QESC and at Northern Cardiology.
More recently he has taken on a leading role in the development of cardiac MRI at the QEH, and was on the Organising Committee for the inaugural Australasian Cardiovascular Imaging Symposium in 2003. His main interests are the diagnosis and treatment of coronary disease with an emphasis on non-invasive imaging of myocardial ischaemia, and is the Principal Investigator of several multi-centre trials involving the Cardiology and Nuclear Medicine Departments at the QEH.
- Hospital Affiliations
- The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
- Lyell McEwin Hospital
- Affiliated Clinics
- QE Specialist Centre
- Northern Cardiology & Specialists Clinic
Practice Locations
SA
- Northern Cardiology & Specialists Clinic
- Address
- Calvary Central Districts Hospital Specialist Consulting Suites
Suite 4, 25-37 Jarvis Rd
Adelaide SA 5112
Australia
- Phone
- 08 8250 9050
- Fax
- 08 8281 2511
- QE Specialist Centre
- Address
- 35 Woodville Road
Woodville SA 5011
Australia
- Phone
- 08 8244 4105
- Fax
- 08 8243 2766
