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Professor Andre La Gerche

St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne (Australia)

Member of:

European Society of Cardiology

- Head of the Heart, Exercise and Research Trials (HEART) Lab, St Vincent’s Institute and Victor Chang Cardiovascular Research Institute - Cardiologist and Head of Cardiovascular Research, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne André completed a PhD at St Vincent’s / University of Melbourne and 4 years of post-doctoral research at the University Hospital of Leuven, Belgium. His research and clinical work focuses on the effect of exercise on the human heart. He studies the range of health from severe heart and lung disease to elite athletic performance. André heads the National Centre for Sports Cardiology that comprises a young team of multi-disciplinary researchers based at the HEART Lab, supported by St Vincent’s Institute and the Victor Chang Cardiovascular Research Institute. He has pioneered novel imaging techniques including exercise cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and contrast echocardiography.

Cardio-oncology in practice

Event: ESC Congress 2024

Topic: Cardio-Oncology

Session type: Abstract Sessions

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Arrhythmias 2

Event: EACVI 2023

Topic: Imaging of Arrhythmias

Session type: Clinical Cases

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Sports Cardiology and Exercise 1

Event: ESC Preventive Cardiology 2023

Topic: Sports Cardiology

Session type: Abstract Sessions

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Hypertension - Treatment lifestyle and pharmacotherapy

Event: ESC Congress 2022

Topic: Treatment

Session type: Moderated ePosters

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Rehabilitation and sports cardiology

Event: ESC Congress 2021 - The Digital Experience

Topic: Rehabilitation and Sports Cardiology

Session type: Abstract Sessions

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Moderated abstracts - Sports Cardiology and Exercise

Event: ESC Preventive Cardiology 2021

Topic: Risk Factors and Prevention

Session type: Abstract Sessions

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Physical activity, exercise, and sports

Event: ESC Congress 2019

Topic: Physical Inactivity and Exercise

Session type: Rapid Fire Abstracts

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Imaging in athletes: cases and interpretation

Event: EuroPrevent 2019

Topic: Sports Cardiology

Session type: Case-Based Symposium

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Cardiac imaging in Sports Cardiology diagnosis and management

Event: EuroPrevent 2018

Topic: Sports Cardiology

Session type: Teaching Course

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Young investigator award session I - Sport Cardiology

Event: EuroPrevent 2018

Topic: Other

Session type: Young Investigator Award Abstracts

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