Professor Clara Chow

Director

Professor Clara Chow is a Cardiologist at Westmead hospital, Professor of Medicine, at the University of Sydney, and Academic Director of the Westmead Applied Research Centre. At Westmead, she is Program Director, Community Based Cardiac Services with responsibilities for the Rapid Access Cardiology Services, and also member of the Western Sydney Local Health District Board.

She also holds honorary roles as the Academic co-Director CPC Westmead, and professorial fellow at the George Institute for Global Health. She was President of the Cardiac Society Australia and New Zealand 2021-2023. Clara has a PhD from the University of Sydney, Australia in cardiovascular epidemiology and international public Health and a Postdoc from McMaster University, Canada.

The main focus of her research is cardiovascular disease prevention and she has expertise in digital health interventions development and evaluation and over 350 published papers. Her clinical interests are in cardiac imaging particularly cardiac CT and echo.

Professor Chow was also a National Heart Foundation of Australia Future Leader Fellow Level 2 from 2016-2020 and is current holder of a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Investigator grant.