Faculty

Professor Andrew Davis trained in Paediatric Cardiology at the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne and then at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. He undertook further training in Paediatric Electrophysiology in Toronto and subsequently at the Children's Hospital in Boston.

Whilst overseas Andrew completed his doctorate on "The paediatric high-resolution signal-averaged ECG". Andrew is the lead clinician of the Arrhythmia Service. Andrew’s clinical interests encompass all aspects of paediatric electrophysiology including syncope, cardiac inherited diseases, pacemaker and defibrillator management and ablation of arrhythmia substrate in children. Andrew played an integral role in the introduction of gene testing for cardiac inherited disease in Australia. Andrew has developed a Multi-Disciplinary Clinic for Cardiac Inherited Disease - sudden death prevention, together with The Victorian Clinical Genetics Service. The Clinic has a close clinical liaison with the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine. The Clinic sees young family members whose first-degree relatives have died suddenly and unexpectedly from a possible cardiac cause and in addition young family members who could potentially inherit a cardiac disease that runs in the family. Andrew’s research interest is the prevention of sudden cardiac death in childhood especially in relation to causes of sudden death with a genetic basis.

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