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Arjun Iyer, FRACS PhD
BACKGROUND
CURRENT: Cardiothoracic and Transplant Consultant Surgeon, St Vincent’s Hopsital SYDNEY 2019: Cardiothoracic and Transplant Consultant Surgeon, Alfred Hopsital MELBOURNE VMO Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Flinders Hospital, ADELAIDE2018: Cardiac and Transplant Fellow, St Paul’s Hopsital VANCOUVER CANADA2017: Cardiothoracic and Transplant Fellow, St Vincent’s Hopsital SYDNEY2016: FRACS Cardiothoracic Surgery2016 – 2017: Senior Trainee, ST VINCENT’S HOSPITAL Sydney2014 – 2015: Trainee, PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL Brisbane2011 – 2013: Research Fellow, ST VINCENT’S HOSPITAL Sydney PhD: DCD CARDIAC TRANSPLANTATION University of New South Wales, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute SYDNEY2010: Royal Adelaide Hospital ADELAIDE – Registrar, Cardiothoracic Surgery2008-2009 – Royal Adelaide Hospital (Internship/residency) ADELAIDE
OTHER INTERESTS
Transcatheter valve implantationHeart and Lung TransplantationDCD Heart TransplantationMechanical circulatory support – VAD, ECMOOff pump CABGMinimal access surgery
RESEARCH
Online links
http://www.medicaldaily.com/donor-heart-brought-back-life-outside-patien…
http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/research-gets-donor-hearts-beating…
BOOK CHAPTER
A Iyer & P Jansz (2019) ‘Cardiac surgery and percutaneous cardiac interventions’ in D
Muller & J Boland Interventional Cardiology and Cardiac Cathterisation, Taylor & Francis Group, Florida
USA; p 591-604
PUBLICATIONS
Dhital KK, Iyer A, Connellan M et al. Adult heart transplantation with distant procurement and ex-vivo preservation of donor hearts after circulatory death: a case series. Lancet. 2015Jun 27;385(9987):2585-91
Iyer A, Chew HC, Gao L, et al. Pathophysiological Trends During Withdrawal of Life Support: Implications for Organ Donation After Circulatory Death.Transplantation. 2016Dec;100(12):2621-2629.
Kumarasinghe G, Gao L, Hicks M, Villanueva J, Iyer A, Chew HC, Hayward CS, Macdonald P. Improved heart function from older donors using pharmacologic conditioning strategies.J Heart Lung Transplant. 2016May;35(5):636-46.
Jayewardene ID, Xie A, Iyer A,et al. Development of a Mock Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Circuit to Assess Recirculation.ASAIO J. 2016Jul-Aug;62(4):496-7
Iyer A, Gao L, Doyle Aet al. Normothermic ex vivo perfusion provides superior organ preservation and enables viability assessment of hearts from DCD donors. Am J Transplant. 2015Feb;15(2):371-80.
Iyer A, Gao L, Doyle Aet al. Increasing the tolerance of DCD hearts to warm ischemia by pharmacological postconditioning. Am J Transplant. 2014Aug;14(8):1744-52.
A. Iyer, L. Gao, A. Doyle et al. Cardiac Transplantation Using Hearts from Donation after Circulatory Death (Dcd) Donors – A Viable Source of Organs?. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation 2013;32(4):S247-248
A. Iyer,L. Gao, A. Doyle et al. Hearts from Donations after Circulatory Death (DCD) Donors – Assessment in a Porcine Transplant Model Utilising Transmedics Organ Care System for Organ Perfusion Preservation. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 2013;32(4):S68-69
A Iyer, L Gao, A Doyle et al. Hearts from Donations after Circulatory Death (DCD) Donors ‐Ischaemic Post‐Conditioning Significantly Improves Recovery of Cardiac Function Following Warm Ischaemia in A Porcine Model. Transplantation. 2012;94(10S):39
A Iyer, M. Harkess, A. Havryk et al. Non Heparinisation Does Not Impair Outcome of Lung Transplantation from Maastricht Category III Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) Donors. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 2012;31(4):S98
Arjun Iyer, Gayathri Kumarasinghe, Mark Hicks, et al.Review Article -Primary Graft Failure after Heart Transplantation. Journal of Transplantation vol 2011; Article ID 175768 2011
A Iyer,P Macdonald, K Dhital et al. Cardiac Transplantation Using Hearts From Donation After Circulatory Death (Dcd) Donors – A Viable Source Of Organs? ANZ J. Surg. 2013; 83 (Suppl. 1) 17–20
EDUCATION & TRAINING
– PhD 2017- FRACS Cardiothoracic Surgery 2016- MBBS : Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery 2007 – Adelaide University Medical SchoolAustralian Medical Association Medal 2007
Archibald Watson Prize for Surgery 20052017 – Marjoorie Hooper RACS Scholarship2016 – Board of Cardiothoracic Surgery Trainee Prize 2015 – Designs for Vision prize – ANZSCTS, Australia2013
President’s Prize, Basic Sciences – Transplantation Society of Australia and New ZealandYoung Investigator Award – Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand Trainee Research Prize – Royal Australasian College of Surgeons2012
AVANT Doctors in Training Scholarship Young Investigator Award – Australasian Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery Young Investigator Award- Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand Travel Grant Award – Surgical Research Society 2011 UNSW Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) Scholarship Young Investigator Award – Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand CoursesThe Postgraduate Course in Applied and Surgical Anatomy, Discipline of Anatomy and Pathology, The University of Adelaide School of Medical Sciences – 2010
ASSET (Australian and New Zealand Surgical Skills Education and Training), Brisbane – 2010
EMST (Early Management of Severe Trauma), Adelaide – 2010
BASIC (Basic Assessment & Support in Intensive Care), Adelaide – 2009
CLEAR (critical literature evaluation and research) – 2011
CCrISP (Care of the Critically Ill Surgical Patient) – 2012