Doctor Christian Verdicchio

Dr Christian is the Chief Executive Officer of Heart Support Australia overseeing the organisation and leading Australia’s largest peer support network to ensure Australians receive long-term support following a cardiac event. Prior to his work with Heart Support Australia, Dr Verdicchio was the the Corporate Allied Health and Cardiac Rehabilitation Manager at Macquarie Health where he established and led Australia’s largest private cardiac rehabilitation program across 12 hospitals in Sydney and Melbourne. Dr Verdicchio is a clinician-researcher with extensive experience in exercise in cardiovascular disease and sports cardiology. He completed his PhD in Medicine under the supervision of Prof Prash Sanders and was awarded Dean's Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence for his PhD titled 'Exercise in Atrial Fibrillation'. He holds appointments as a Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Adelaide Medical School at the University of Adelaide and Faculty of Medicine at University of Sydney