Dr Brendan McQuillan completed his undergraduate medical degree at The University of Western Australia. He then worked at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (SCGH), serving as president of the Resident Medical Officers’ Society and as its representative to the Hospital Clinical Association and the Australian Medical Association.

He successfully completed examinations in internal medicine before undertaking three years full-time research with the Heart Research Institute of Western Australia. He completed his PhD in vascular biology, studying novel risk factors for atherosclerosis.

Dr McQuillan has published over 30 papers in peer reviewed international medical journals. He took on a position as a post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard University and completed two years of subspeciality training in echocardiography at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Dr McQuillan is currently an Associate Professor in cardiology at The University of Western Australia and head of the SCGH Unit of the School of Medicine and Pharmacology.

He is a Consultant Cardiologist in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine and Director of the Echocardiography Department at SCGH.

Dr McQuillan has ongoing research interests in genetic epidemiology, inflammatory pathways in atherosclerosis and the metabolic syndrome. He maintains active involvement in the supervision and training of junior doctors and medical students at St John of God Subiaco Hospital.

Dr McQuillian has sub specialty interests in:

• Echocardiography
• Stress echocardiography
• Transoesophagael echocardiography