Prof. Jim Wilkinson - Curriculum Vitae

Name:

James Leonard Wilkinson

Nationality:

British / Australian (Dual nationality)

Marital Status:

Married (wife: Helen. Children: 4 sons)

Qualifications / Diplomas:

MB, ChB, (Birmingham) 1966
MRCP (U.K.) 1971
FRCP (London) 1984
FRACP 1991
FACC 1993
FRCPCH 1997
FCSANZ 2004

Education:

School - Clifton College, Bristol
University - University of Birmingham, England
Academic - Distinction in surgery. Proxime - Accessit for the Leith-Newman prize in pathology
Honours in Anatomy and Histology, Pathology and Bacteriology, Paediatrics and Child Health

Appointments

House Surgeon, General Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. July, 1966-Jan 1967.
House Physician, General Medicine / Diabetes, General Hospital, Birmingham. Jan-July, 1967.
House Physician, General Paediatrics, Birmingham Children's Hospital. July, 1967 - Jan 1968.
Senior House Officer (R.M.O.) General Paediatrics and Paediatric Cardiology, Birmingham Children's Hospital.February, 1968 - July, 1968.
Senior House Officer, Neonatal Paediatrics, Birmingham Maternity Hospital. Jul 1968-Jan1969.
Senior House Officer, Neurology, Midland Centre for Neurology and Neuro-surgery, Smethwick. January, 1969 - July, 1969.
Medical Registrar, General Medicine with special interest in diabetes and cardiology, Cheltenham General Hospital. July, 1969 - April, 1971.
Registrar in Cardiology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. April, 1971 - July, 1972
Lecturer in Child Health, University of Liverpool and Honorary Senior Registrar, Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital. August, 1972 - July, 1975.
Locum Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital.
July 1974 - June1975. (On leave of absence from Lectureship).
Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital. Aug 1975-Dec 1987.
Director, Regional Paediatric Cardiac Unit, Liverpool.January, 1987 - December, 1987.
Director of Cardiology, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, 1988 - 2001

Other Appointments

Clinical Lecturer in Child Health (Honorary) 1979 -1987.
Research Fellow (Honorary), Department of Child Health, 1979 - 1987.

Current Appointments

Professorial Fellow, Dept of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne
Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne.
Cardiologist (Honorary), Royal Melbourne Hospital.
Cardiologist (Honorary), Monash Medical Centre.
Cardiologist (Honorary), St Vincent's Private Hospital, Melbourne.
Cardiologist (Honorary), Geelong Hospital.
Cardiologist (Honorary), Goulburn Valley Base Hospital, Shepparton.

Membership of societies

Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ)
Paediatric Research Society of Australia
Australian Medical Association (AMA)
British Cardiac Society (BCS)
Association for European Paediatric Cardiology (AEPC)
British Medical Association (BMA)
International Society for Heart and Lung Transplant (ISHLT)
International Society of Invasive Cardiology in Congenital Heart Disease (ISICCHD)

Editorial Boards

Member of Editorial Board - Int.J.Cardiol.1985 - 1995
Member of Editorial Board - British Heart Journal, 1985 - 1988
Member of Editorial Board - Paediatric Cardiology. 1990 - 1997
Member of Editorial Board - Cardiology in the Young.
Member of Editorial Board - Indonesian Journal of Pediatric Cardiology
Member of Editorial Board - Indian Heart Journal
Paediatric Cardiology Editor - Heart Lung and Circulation.

Other non-clinical responsibilities (past and present)

Chairman, Liverpool Paediatric Club (1979 - 1980)
Secretary , Division of Paediatrics (South/Central Hospitals) 1979 - 1981 (Liverpool)
Convenor, Paediatric Cardiology Group, British Paediatric Association, 1979 - 1983
Organiser of Poster Sessions, 1st World Congress of Paediatric Cardiology - London, June 1980
Secretary for Ordinary Meetings, Liverpool Medical Institution, 1981/1982, 1982/1983
Member of Council, Liverpool Medical Institution, 1981/1982, 1982/1983
Member of Library Committee, Liverpool Medical Institution, 1981 - 1985
Paediatric Division Representative, M.E.C. (South/Central Hospitals), 1979 - 1981 (Liverpool)
B.M.A. Place of Work Accredited Representative (P.O.W.A.R.) 1980 - 1987
Secretary - Paediatric Medical Executive Committee - 1982 - 1984 (Liverpool)
Treasurer - Liverpool Medical Institution, 1985 - 1987
Chairman - Liverpool - Paediatric Medical Executive Committee 1987
British Paediatric Association representative on Joint Cardiology Liaison Committee between Royal College of Physicians & Department of Health. 1986 - 1987
Member of Health Advisory Committee, National Heart Foundation (Australia) 1996-97
Council member, Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand 1997-2004
Paediatric representative. Cardiology Specialist Advisory Committee, RACP. 1999-2005
Medical Staff Association representative to AMA (VIC) Council. 2001-2004
Chairman of Medical Staff Association, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. 2002-2005

Contributions to scientific meetings and visits to other centres

Papers/Posters contributed to:

American College of Cardiology
American Heart Association
Association of European Paediatric Cardiologists
Asian Congress of Paediatric Cardiology
Asian Pacific Congress of Cardiology
Australian College of Paediatrics
British Cardiac Society
British Paediatric Association
Brown's Club (Surgical) (U.K.)
Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand
Cardiac Surgical Research Club (U.K.)
European Society of Cardiology
Liverpool Medical Institution (U.K.)
Manchester Medical Society (U.K.)
Paediatric Cardiology Group (U.K.)
Paediatric Visiting Club (U.K.)
Paediatric Research Society (U.K.)
Royal Society of Medicine (Anaesthetic section) (U.K.)
Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions
World Congress of Paediatric Cardiology
World Congress of Paediatric Cardiac Surgery
World Congress of Paediatric Cardiology & Cardiac Surgery
World Congress of Cardiology

Invited lectures/papers

Symposium on congenital heart disease - Milan (March, 1978)
Symposium on univentricular heart - Munich (May, 1978)
Paediatric Cardiology Symposium - London (1978)
Postgraduate cardiac surgical course - London (1978)
Postgraduate course on Paediatric Cardiology - London (1977,1978)
Echocardiography course - Newcastle (1978, 1979, 1985, 1986)
Paediatric Cardiology Symposium - London (1981)
Royal Society of Medicine (Anaesthetics section) 1978
Gloucester branch B.M.A. (1979)
British Heart Foundation Lecture - Blackpool, 1979
British Heart Foundation Lecture - Isle of Man, 1981
British Heart Foundation Lecture - Llandudno, 1980
British Council Course - Cambridge, 1981
British Council Course - Cambridge, 1983
British Council Course - Cambridge, 1985
British Council Course - Cambridge, 1987
Manchester University, 1982 (Dental Faculty)
Manchester (Hope Hospital) 1980
Blackburn - Postgraduate Centre, 1981
Stafford - Postgraduate Centre, 1980
Echocardiography course - Harefield Hospital (1984, 1987)
British Heart Foundation Lecture - Stowerbridge, Postgraduate Centre, 1984
British Heart Foundation Lecture - Leighton (Crewe), Postgraduate Centre, 1985
British Heart Foundation Lecture - Macclesfield, Postgraduate Centre, 1985
Symposium on Cyanotic Heart Defects - Prague, 1986
Neonatology symposium - Srinagar, Kashmir 1986
Extension Lecture - Aligarh, India 1986
Paediatric Cardiology Symposium - Newcastle, 1986
John Agar Memorial Lecture - Geelong 1989
Cardiac Society of India (Delhi Branch) 1989
Postgraduate meeting, Warrnambool, Victoria, 1990
Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand, Auckland N.Z. August 1990
International Workshop - "Updates in Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery", Madras, India. January 1991
Paediatric Cardiology Symposium, Jakarta, Indonesia. April 1991
James Hutchinson Memorial Lecture, Hong Kong, April 1993
Paediatric Cardiology Symposium, Liverpool UK, May 1994
Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand, Adelaide. Aug 1994
Indonesian Heart Association, Bandung, July 1994
International Congress of Paediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Liverpool, UK, May 1995
Asian Pacific Congress of Cardiology, Bali. 1995
Symposium on Paediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Tokyo. 1995
Indonesian Society of Paediatrics, Bukittinghi, Sumatra. 1996
Cardiac Surgery / Cardiology Symposium, Okayama, Japan. March 1997
13th Biennial Asian Congress on Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Sydney 1997
3rd National Symposium on Paediatric Cardiology, Jakarta 1998
Hong Kong Paediatric Society. Nov 1998
Indonesian Association of Paediatric Cardiologists. Jakarta. Nov 1998
Inaugural meeting, Indian Society for Paediatric Cardiology, Delhi. March 1999
'Non Coronary Intervention' meeting, Bangalore, India. April 1999
Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions, Monterey, California. May 1999
Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. Wellington, New Zealand. Aug 1999
7th Asian Congress of Paediatric Cardiology, Lahore, Pakistan. Oct 1999
International Conference on Transcatheter Interventions. New Delhi, India. Jan 2000
1st Annual Paediatric Cardiology Symposium, Pakistan Paediatric Cardiology Society. Karachi, Pakistan. Feb 2000
Millennium Intervention Meeting. Novotel, Melbourne. August 2000
Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne Aug 2000
1st Meeting of the South African Heart Association.Stellenbosch, South Africa. Nov 2000
12th Japanese Pediatric Interventional Cardiology (JPIC) meeting, Matsumoto, Japan. Jan 2001
Symposium on Echocardiography / Morphology Correlations, Sydney. Oct 2001
11th World Congress on Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Melbourne. Oct 2001
14th World Congress of Cardiology, Sydney. May 2002
4th THIC symposium in Paediatric Cardiology. Bali, Indonesia. June 2002
12th National Congress of Child Health, Bali, Indonesia. July 2002
12th Annual Scientific Meeting of The Indonesian Heart Ass. & 6th Interventional Cardiology Workshop. Jakarta, Indonesia. April 2003.
Symposium in Obstetric and Gynaecological Ultrasound. Melbourne. July 2003
3rd International Symposium of Pakistan Paediatric Cardiology Society. Karachi, October 2003.
Cardiac Society of India. Kolkata. Dec 2003
Gulf Heart Association. Muscat, Oman. Jan 2004.
14th James Hutchinson Memorial Lecture, Hong Kong, May 2004
37th Edgar Mannheimer Memorial Lecture. AEPC, Munich. May 2004
IJN Live Workshop. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. June 2004
1st Indonesian Interventional Pediatric Cardiology Symposium. Batam Island. July 2004.
PICS VIII & ENTICS II, Chicago. Sep 2004.
5th THIC symposium in Pediatric Cardiology. Beijing. Oct 2004
5th Biennial Conference of Pakistan Society of CV Surgeons. Lahore, Pakistan. March 2005
5th World Congress of Paediatric Cardiology & Cardiac Surgery, Buenos Aires. Sep 2005
17th Biennial Congress of Cardiology, Karachi, Pakistan. Dec 16th – 18th 2005
National Conference on Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. Muscat, Oman. Feb. 7 – 9, 2006
IJN Live Workshop. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. July 2006
Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. 54^th Annual Meeting,Canberra. Aug 2006
PICS 2006, Las Vegas. Sep 2006.
Australian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine 36^th Annual meeting. Melbourne. Sep 2006
1st Asia-Pacific Congress of Pediatric Cardiology & Cardiac Surgery, Bangkok. Nov 2006
1^st All African Conference on Cardiology, Diabetes and Stroke. Nairobi, Kenya. May 2007
PICS 2007, Las Vegas. July 2007.
Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. 55^th Annual Meeting, Christchurch, NZ Aug 2007
19th Annual Saudi Heart Association Meeting. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Feb 2008
2nd Asia-Pacific Congress of Pediatric Cardiology & Cardiac Surgery, Jeju Island, S Korea. May 2008
PICS 2008, Las Vegas. July 2008
Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. 56th Annual Meeting, Adelaide. Aug 2008
Dobell Day Meeting, Montreal Children’s Hospital. October 2008
XX Congresso Brasiliero de Cardiologia Pediátrica, Florianopolis, Brazil. Nov 2008

Other invited visits

Ancona, Italy, 1979 - Consultation, Postgraduate teaching
Benghazi, Libya - Consultation, Undergraduate and Postgraduate Teaching. 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982 (Twice), 1983 (Twice), 1985
Amman, Jordan, 1985 - Postgraduate Teaching
Delhi, India, 1989 - Postgraduate teaching
Jakarta, Indonesia, 1991 - Teaching, consulting
Jakarta, Indonesia, 1993 - Teaching, consulting
Jakarta, Indonesia, 1994 - Teaching, consulting
Hong Kong, 1996 - Teaching, consulting
Hong Kong, 1998 - Teaching, consulting
Bangalore, India. 1999. 'Non Coronary Intervention' meeting
7th ACPC, Lahore, Pakistan. 1999 Interventional live workshop
Hyderabad, India. 2000. Interventional live workshop
Karachi, Pakistan. 2000. Interventional workshop
Lahore, Pakistan. 2000. Interventional workshop
Suva, Fiji Sep 2000. Consulting, Teaching
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong - Interventional Proctoring,Teaching, Dec 2000
Taipei & Kaohsiung, Taiwan - Interventional Proctoring, April 2001
Taichung, Taipei & Kaohsiung, Taiwan - Teaching / Proctoring, Oct/Nov 2001
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong - Proctoring,Teaching, Feb 2002
Taichung, Kaohsiung & Taipei, Taiwan - Teaching / Proctoring, April 2002
Jakarta and Surabaya, Indonesia. - Teaching / Proctoring, Sep 2002
Lahore, Pakistan. 2000. Interventional workshop. Sep 2003
Karachi, Pakistan. 2000. Interventional workshop. Oct 2003
Hong Kong. Teaching, proctoring. April/May 2004
Karachi, Pakistan. Interventional workshop. Mar 2005
Lahore, Pakistan. Interventional workshop. Mar 2005
Faculty member. PICS / ENTICHS 2005. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Sep 2005
Multi-Societal Database Committee Montreal, Canada. Oct 2008

Publications

Website: www.jimandhelen.com

Last Updated 01-Jun-2009. Authorised by: Jim Wilkinson. Enquiries: Adam Leadoux.