The first phase of setting up the cardiac clinical network involved the appointment of the cardiac clinical leads. The two cardiac clinical leads are Professor Richard Harper and Dr Jeff Lefkovits.
Professor Richard Harper
Professor Harper current roles include:
Emeritus Director of Cardiology at Monash Medical Centre, Southern Health
Honorary position as the Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Monash university
A member of the Specialist Training Committee in Cardiology which is a committee of the RACP responsible for accrediting the training of cardiologists in Australia.
Previous experience includes the following:
Cardiology registrar at the Royal Melbourne Hospital
Working overseas at Sahlgens Hospital in Gothenberg, Sweden and then at Massachusetts General Hospital and Havard Medical School, Boston, USA.
Staff Cardiologist at the Alfred Hospital.
Foundation Director of Cardiology at Monash Medical Centre.
Chairman of the Victorian Division of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ).
Member on the Federal Council for the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand.
Chairman and long standing member of the Professional and Ethics Sub- Committee of the CSANZ.
Other interests outside cardiology are Health Economics, travel, American history, golf and relaxing at his property in Cape Schanck.
Doctor Jeffery Lefkovits
Doctor Lefkovits current roles include:
Interventional Cardiologist with the Department of Cardiology at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
Chairman of Cardiac Services and Director of the Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory at Cabrini Hospital.
Maintaining a significant involvement with clinical research, health planning, quality assurance and clinical auditioning at Cabrini Health.
Previous experience includes the following:
Physician training at The Royal Melbourne Hospital.
Advanced training in Cardiology at the Alfred Hospital.
Undertaking sub-speciality training in coronary intervention at the renowned Cleveland Clinic in the United States, developing a keen research interest in the area of antithrombotic therapies for cardiovascular disease.
Principal investigator in a large number of multicentre clinical trials and helped establish the first multicentre angioplasty database in Melbourne.
Sports cars, a keen tropical fish hobbyist and snow skiing
Other interests outside Cardiology include sports cars, snow skiing and Doctor Lefkovits is also a keen tropical fish hobbyist.
Phase two
Phase two consist of setting up a leadership group. Early in March 2009 “Expression of Interests” will be sent out via email and letters to a board range of key stakeholders inviting participation on the cardiac clinical network leadership group.
The Cardiac Clinical Network Leadership Group will comprise of a core membership which will include but not be limited to representatives of:
Properly constituted sub-committees of the CCN leadership group.
Consumers and Carers
Clinicians
Health services
Ambulance Services
Primary Care
Population Health / Prevention Professionals
Researchers and Academics
Aboriginal Health Organisations (as appropriate)
Relevant Non Government and private sector organisations
DHS
It is proposed that the first meeting of the cardiac clinical network leadership group will be in April 2009.
