Walter P. Abhayaratna MBBS, Ph.D, FACC, FRACP

Dr. Walter Abhayaratna is a consultant cardiologist and the Executive Clinical Director, Division of Medicine, Canberra Health Services. His Ph.D. at the Australian National University was in the field of cardiovascular epidemiology and echocardiography, and he completed a 3-year fellowship in the Echocardiography Laboratory at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA. He holds a number of NHMRC research grants for clinical research into the prevention of cardiovascular disease and is the Director of Clinical Trials at ACT Health. He is a Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Australian National University