Gemma is a Professor in Medicine at the University of Sydney and an Interventional and Imaging Cardiologist at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. Gemma is committed to improving the care for heart attack patients, unravelling key mechanisms underlying susceptibility and response to heart attack. Discoveries in her Laboratory have been published in leading journals including the Lancet, Circulation, JACC and European Heart Journal, with >400 publications. She was awarded a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Excellence Award for Top Ranked Practitioner Fellow (Australia- 2018), NSW Ministerial Award for Cardiovascular Research Excellence (2019) and was the second female to be awarded the prestigious Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand RT Hall Prize for outstanding and sustained research achievement (2023). Gemma is a mother of 2 boys and enjoys the ocean and the mountains with family and friends. She has been appointed a Member of the Order of Australia.
