Prof Craig Juergens

Professor Craig Juergens MBBS (Hons), DMedSc, FRACP, FACC, FCSANZ

Professor Craig Juergens was appointed Director of Medicine at Liverpool Hospital in 2021, where previously he was Head of Department, Cardiology from 2011-2021. He is a Conjoint Professor at UNSW and Co-Lead of the Cardiac and Vascular Clinical Academic Group.

After graduating from UNSW with Honours in 1986, cardiology training at RPAH, and an Interventional Cardiology Fellowship at Stanford University, he established the Interventional Cardiology Service at Liverpool Hospital in 1997, which has grown into one of the busiest units in Australia. He also helped establish interventional cardiology services at Orange Base Hospital in regional NSW. He established a clinical research unit at Liverpool Hospital and a training program for Interventional Cardiology Fellows. He has performed percutaneous coronary interventions in numerous countries, including the first angiogram in Yangon General Hospital in Myanmar.

With a major research interest in interventional cardiology, he was awarded a Doctorate of Medical Science from UNSW in 2014, has supervised Masters and PhD candidates, published over 100 papers, and been an invited speaker at national and international meetings.

He has formed a collaboration of multidisciplinary clinician researchers across Southwestern Sydney called ICON (Improving Cardiovascular Outcomes Network) with an affiliation with the Ingham Research Institute. Towards the end of 2020 he and Dr Sidney Lo established the Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) service at Liverpool. In recent times he has been part of the COVID taskforce at Liverpool hospital which is dealing with the enormous challenges facing the hospital during the Pandemic and has led research trying to understand the reasons for the reduction in non-COVID related cardiovascular presentations at this time.