Elizabeth D. Paratz MBBS, PhD, FRACP, FESC, FCSANZ
Cardiologist, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne and the Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute; Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia; World Heart Federation Salim Yusuf Emerging LeaderElizabeth is a cardiologist and World Heart Federation Salim Yusuf Emerging Leader. She gained her medical degree from the University of Melbourne with honours (2010) and qualified as a cardiologist in 2017.
Alongside her medical and cardiology training, she undertook additional studies at Imperial College London (2007-08, laboratory-based research in pulmonary hypertension) and Harvard University (2015-16, biostatistics and epidemiology). Her PhD, completed in 2023 at the Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute, focussed on young cardiac arrest and received the Paul Korner PhD Medal.
She is a Steering Committee Member for NEDA, the International Lancet Commission For Sudden Cardiac Death, an Associate Editor for European Heart Journal Case Reports, Guest Editor at BMC Cardiovascular Disorders and Section Editor (Personalised Medicine and Cardiac Genetics) at Heart, Lung & Circulation. She is also Deputy Medical Director of the East Timor Hearts Fund, travelling to Timor-Leste regularly to provide volunteer cardiac services. She is also a Designated Aviation Cardiologist and Medical Examiner (DAC and DAME).