The Prince Charles Hospital
QueenslandHeart & Lung Transplant Unit
Head of Unit
Dr Keith McNeil
Physicians
Dr Andrew Galbraith
Dr Deborah Meyers
Dr George Javorsky
Dr Peter Hopkins
Dr Fiona Kermeen
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Surgeons
Dr Peter
Tesar
Dr John Dunning
Dr Graeme Hart
Dr Trevor
Fayers
Coordinators
Ms Jo Maddicks-Law CNC
Ms Lis Gilmour CNC
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Inquiries to:
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Keith McNeil
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Telephone:
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61 (07) 3139 4393
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Facsimile:
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61 (07) 3139 5696
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E-mail:
Our Ref:
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Keith_mcneil@health.qld.gov.au
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24th July 2007
Prince Charles Hospital CardiothoracicTransplant Unit
Profile
Prince Charles Hospital is Australia’s largest Cardiothoracic
Centre and provides a full range of cardiothoracic transplant
options and management of end stage heart and lung failure.
Cardiac transplantation commenced in 1990 and the unit has now
performed over 290 heart transplant procedures. Lung
transplantation commenced in 1996 and the unit has now performed
over 150 of these procedures. This includes heart/lung, single and
bilateral lung, and also Australia’s only three combined
heart/lung/liver transplants.
Complimenting the transplant service are Specialist services in
acute and chronic heart failure (including a ventricular assist
device programme), a very busy Pulmonary Hypertension Unit, an end
stage emphysema and lung volume reduction service, an interstitial
and vasculitic lung disease referral programme, and an
interventional bronchoscopy programme.
Dr Keith McNeil, the Head of Transplantation has occupied that
position for the past six years but is moving on later in 2007
leaving the Heart Transplant Unit in the capable hands of Dr
Deborah Meyers, Dr George Javorsky and Dr David Platts and the Lung
Transplant Programme under the guide of Dr Peter Hopkins and Dr
Fiona Kermeen. On the surgical side of things, Dr Peter Tesar heads
up the Heart Transplant and the ventricular assist device
programmes and Dr Graeme Hart the Lung Transplant Programme with Dr
Bruce Thompson, and Dr Robert Tam assisting in both
specialities.
Pivotal to the success of the transplant programme are our
Transplant Co-ordinators Jo Maddicks-Law, Kate Wright and Maureen
Rogers. In addition there is an extended multi-disciplinary network
of ward staff, retrieval staff, operating room staff including
Anaesthetists and Perfusionists, all of whom contribute to the
excellent results achieved by the unit.
Referrals for transplantation should be directed to the
transplant office, which can be contacted via the hospital switch
board (07 3139 4000) or via fax (07 3139 5696). Additionally,
referrals for the management of any advanced or end stage heart
and/or lung disease can be made to individual consultants via
either the Transplant Office, or directly via the Private Practice
Outpatient Office ( 07 3139
5207).
Dr K McNEIL
HEAD OF TRANSPLANT SERVICES
THE PRINCE CHARLES HOSPITAL
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