A/Prof James Wong

Associate Professor James Wong has been a cardiologist at John Fawkner Private Hospital for many years and is a valuable member of the John Fawkner Cardiology team supporting their comprehensive, local cardiac service for the patients in the north-west metropolitan region.

A/Prof Wong graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1985 with honours in medicine and surgery.  He trained in cardiology at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and was awarded a National Heart Foundation scholarship to complete a PhD in vascular biology at the Baker Medical Research Institute.  Post graduate training was obtained in an advanced cardiac imaging fellowship in the cardiovascular imaging laboratory at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio USA.  He won first prizes in the Advanced Fellows’ research award (Cleveland Clinic 1997 and 1998), Ohio Chapter of the ACC Young Investigators award in 1997, and in the Young Investigators Award of the American Society of Echocardiography 1998 for work on ultrasound facilitated gene therapy.

A/Prof Wong's main interests are in:
> cardiac ultrasound
> stress echocardiography and transoesophageal echocardiography
> valvular heart disease
> heart failure