Professor John Atherton

John Atherton is Director of Cardiology (Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital), Professor (University of Queensland) and Pre-eminent Staff Specialist (Queensland Health). He was one of four non-European official content reviewers for the 2016 ESC Heart Failure Guidelines and chaired the 2018 National Heart Foundation of Australia/ Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ) Heart Failure Guidelines. He previously chaired the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ) Heart Failure Council and the Asia-Pacific Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Registry Scientific Advisory Committee. He is the Queensland Cardiac Outcomes Registry- Heart Failure Data Custodian (enrolls over 6,000 patients/ year). Research interests include investigating novel technologies to facilitate early detection and management of heart failure, heart failure disease management and cardiac genetics.