Director & Cardiologist Western HeartCare

MBBS FRACP PhD FCSANZ

Dr Alicia Chan is a clinical and academic Cardiologist who specialises in heart failure and implantable devices therapy. She has also a keen interest in heart disease in women.

Dr Alicia Chan graduated from the University of Adelaide in 2000 and completed her clinical cardiology training at The Queen Elizabeth and Lyell McEwin Health Hospitals. She undertook further training at The New Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Scotland and a postdoctoral fellowship in implantable devices therapy at the University of Calgary, Canada.

Her academic interests include heart disease in women, having completed her PhD (Dean’s list 2013) entitled “Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Women: Impact of Ageing, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and Menopause on Nitric Oxide Signalling” and also heart failure mechanisms and therapeutics, with international presentations and publications in peer-reviewed journals in these fields. Her latest contribution was in the “Consensus Statement on the current prevention and management of Heart Failure” MJA 2022.

She is the current SA Board Representative Cardiac Society ANZ, Chair of Cardiology Females in SA (CAFE-SA, CSANZ), Board member of the Heart Foundation and continues to be active in teaching through the University of Adelaide.