| Cardiology Gold Coast Hospital/Griffith University |
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Rohan Jayasinghe |
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| Notable holders | Invention of Prosthetic Mitral Valve, Accelerated Atherocoronary Metabolic Syndrome of the Asian Indian (AAMSIA) |
Prof. Rohan Jayasinghe is an Australian interventional cardiologist, inventor, author, speaker, university academic and a scientist. He is currently the Professor of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Griffith University, Gold Coast.[1] He is also the Director of Cardiac Services, Gold Coast Hospital, Queensland.[2][3]
He is a world expert on the topic of coronary artery disease in the Indo-Asian race. He described for the first time, the prevalent form of coronary disease in the Indo-Asian race as a distinct entity naming it the "Accelerated Atherocoronary Metabolic Syndrome of the Asian Indian (AAMSIA).[4] He is an international expert on the classification of the complete occlusion of the coronary artery for the purpose of intervention. He described the first universal classification system for chronic total occlusions.[5] He is an international expert on cardiovascular prevention and the role of yoga in heart health.[6][7]
He is noted for his invention of Prosthetic Mitral valve for Percutaneous delivery and deployment. He is internationally recognized for his coronary and vascular interventions.[8]
He is one of the Course Director and Author of the Conference Program – Asia Pacific Interventional Advances Conference (APIA).[9] He was an official physician for Sydney olympics 2000. He is a co-director of the Indo-European Course on Revascularisation (IECR), which is an international conference on coronary intervention held twice a year in India and Europe.[10] He is in the editorial board of the Australasian Heart Journal.
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Wadanambi Arachchige Satyajit Rohan was born in Kandy Sri Lanka. He had his early education at St Thomas’ Preparatory School, Colombo and won a government scholarship to attend D.S. Senanayake College in Colombo Sri Lanka. He completed his High School Certificate examination with straight distinctions in Physics, Chemistry, Botany and Zoology and entered the Medical Faculty of the University of Colombo and earned a Mahapola government scholarship for outstanding scholastic performance. After studying for one year at the Colombo Medical faculty he won a Merit Scholarship to enter the Medical Faculty of the Sydney University in Australia. There he won prizes for anatomy and ENT surgery. In 1995 he completed a student elective at the Green College / Radcliffe Infirmary at Oxford University. In 1996 he completed his medical degree at the University of Sydney with 1st class honours. After finishing his MBBS, Prof.Jayasinghe worked as a Medical Registrar at Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney and later moved to Westmead Hospital as an Advanced Trainee Cardiology Registrar in 2001. Also in 2001 he completed the Master of Sports Medicine degree from the University of New South Wales. In 2004 he earned his PhD in Cardiovascular Research at the University of New South Wales.[11] In the year 2003 Prof.Jayasinghe moved to USA as an Interventional Cardiology Fellow where he was employed as one of the two ACC accredited full-time interventional fellows. He completed the Fellowship in Interventional Cardiology in 2004 at the Beth Israel Medical Center, Manhattan Campus of the Albert Einstein School of Medicine, New York City. Currently he is Director of Cardiology, Gold Coast Health services district, Queensland and is the Professor of Cardiology, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.[12]
Interventional cardiology / interventional device development
Heart failure / cardiovascular clinical trials
Pulmonary hypertension / cardiac rehabilitation / mental illness and cardiovascular disease
Cardiovascular genetics / indigenous cardiovascular health
Effects of climate change on cardiovascular disease[13]
HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS AND METHOD-This is one of the major inventions of Prof.Jayasinghe. It has the potential to make a huge impact on a significant population.Many patients with severe mitral valve disease are not fit enough to undergo open heart surgery. The only treatment for these patients is to enable the mitral valve replacement by way of delivering the prosthetic valve along a catheter inserted to the major vein in the groin. The invention is the first proven such medical advancement that has been developed.[14]