John Atherton

Associate Professor John Atherton is Director of Cardiology at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital and Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Queensland.  His clinical and research interests include heart failure pathophysiology, quality of care in patients with acute coronary syndromes and heart failure, cardiac genetics and cardiac rehabilitation. 

A/Prof Atherton chairs the Asia Pacific Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Registry Scientific Advisory Committee and is the Queensland Board Member for the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand.  He sits on the Commonwealth Medical Services Advisory Committee, the National Heaty Foundation Chronic Heart Failure Clinical Practices Guidelines Executive Group and the National Heart Foundation Queensland Division's Health Reference Group.