A/Prof Jurgen Passage is a cardiothoracic surgeon at St John of God Subiaco Hospital. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Notre Dame Australia (Fremantle) and a Senior Clinical Lecturer at UWA. He has interests in echocardiography, atrial fibrillation, heart valve and aortic diseases, and mitral valve annuloplasty.