OUR TEAM
Prof Raj Puranik
MB BS PhD FRACP FCSANZ
Prof Raj Puranik MB BS PhD FRACP was a Neil Hamilton Fairley NHMRC/NHFA Post-doctoral Fellow in cardiovascular magnetic resonance. He is now a Consultant in Cardiovascular MR at RPAH, Specialist MRI, Westmead Children's Hospital and University of Sydney.
His training was completed at Centre for Cardiovascular MR at University College London and Great Ormond St Hospital for Children from 2006-2008.
Since Prof Puranik’s return from London, he has established CMRS which has developed research programs and has performed 8000 cardiac scans since 2008 (approx 450-500 per annum). Prof Puranik runs a Level III co-reporting model with radiologists with synergistic interests.
A/Prof Puranik has trained over 40 clinical or research fellows over the past 10years in various aspects of CMR. His research interests have focussed on Congenital heart disease, with a recent priority to exercise MR techniques. He has published over 100 peer reviewed manuscriipts.
A/Prof Mark Dennis
MBBS (Hons) FRACP PhD
After completing his cardiology training at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Mark has gone on to complete a PhD in Adult Congenital Heart Disease for which he was awarded a RTP and the CSANZ
Paediatric & Congenital Council Travelling Scholarship.
He gained his Level III Society of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) fellowship at Specialist MRI Imaging, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Westmead Children’s Hospital, Sydney Australia through CMRS. Mark’s imaging interests lie in congenital heart disease, the use of cMRI in identifying subclinical disease and multi-modality imaging with cMRI. He has completed further advanced imaging training in CT and the Diploma of Diagnostic Ultrasound (DDU).
Mark is a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney, reporting cardiologist at sMRI, Honorary Visiting Medical Officer at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Clinical Imaging Cardiologist at Macquarie University Hospital and author of 2 clinical medicine textbooks
Dr David Baker
MBBS FRACP
Dr David Baker is a clinical academic cardiologist with expertise in Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) and cardiac MRI. He is appointed as a Staff Specialist at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
David is completing his PhD with a focus on optimising outcomes in complex adult congenital heart disease. David graduated from the University of Newcastle in 2007 and the Australian National University in 2011, before being awarded his FRACP in 2019 following medical and cardiology training at the John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle., Sydney.
David is also a keen teacher, serving as a Clinical Lecturer for the Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, and is an executive member of the Congenital Heart International Professionals (CHiP) Network