Dr Katharine Bate

Dr Katharine Bate is an emerging academic cardiologist with a special interest in heart rhythm disorders, arrhythmias in pregnancy, and exercise as therapy for heart disease. Katharine completed both her physician and cardiology training at Royal North Shore Hospital and is currently undertaking a post-graduate subspecialty fellowship in electrophysiology at Liverpool hospital.

During Katharine's specialist training she concurrently obtained her PhD at the University of Sydney, studying the ways that atherosclerosis alters the immune system and determining how this could be used to develop biomarkers for early disease detection. Katharine won multiple prizes during the course of her PhD, including the Peter Bancroft Prize for submitting a thesis which was accepted without corrections, and continues to work with her research colleagues in the Cardiovascular Discovery Group at the Kolling Institute of Medical Research, led by Professor Gemma Figtree. Katharine also has an ongoing interest in medical education and is the current Course Co-Convenor for Cardiology in the Master of Medicine program for the University of Sydney.