Bio
Professor Clare Arnott is the Acting Chief Research Officer, Pagent Family Director of Heart Lung Clinical Research and Senior Staff Specialist Cardiologist at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney. She is also a Staff Specialist Cardiologist and Head of the Women's Heart Clinic at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. She is a clinical triallist in Cardio-kidney-metabolic medicine and the Director of the Global Cardiovascular Program at the George Institute for Global health.
Prof. Arnott obtained her BMedSci, MBBS (Hons) and PhD at the University of Sydney, and her medical training at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Prince of Wales Hospital. She has fellowships in Women’s Cardiovascular Disease (Churchill Fellowship, Mayo Clinic and Stanford University USA); echocardiography (US echocardiography board certified 2019), and cardiac MRI (RPA, 2016), and she established Australia's first Women's Heart Clinic (RPA hospital). She was awarded the Cardiovascular Research Network (CVRN) Ministerial rising star award for academic excellence in 2022.
She currently holds a NSW Health fellowship and previously received an NHMRC/MRFF Priority Investigator Grant as well as an earlier NSW Health early-mid career fellowship. In addition, she has received >$46 million in peer review funding from NHMRC, MRFF and the National Heart Foundation. She has published >190 peer reviewed manuscripts, has served as the National and Local Clinical Stream Lead for the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand Annual Scientific Meeting, is an Associate Editor for Heart Lung and Circulation, is an Executive team Member of Australia and New Zealand Alliance for CV trials, and is a Fellow of European Society of Cardiology and CSANZ.