Gemma Figtree

Gemma Alexandra Figtree is an Interventional Cardiologist at Royal North Shore Hospital, Professor in Medicine at the University of Sydney, chair of the Federal Government's 10-year Mission for Cardiovascular Health, and co-leader of the Cardiovascular Theme for Sydney Health Partners.

Career

Figtree has dedicated her career to unravelling key mechanisms of heart attack susceptibility, combining clinical work as an interventional cardiologist with laboratory research, large cohort studies, and clinical trials. contributes to advances in precision medicine.

As a cardiologist spokesperson, Figtree has been recognized for her work with baby heart conditions, cardiovascular disease, and heart attacks in people who are not identified as "at risk", and leads the Federal Mission for Cardiovascular Health. The Lancet 2020 Using machine learning to ace cardiovascular risk tests Cardiovascular Research 2021 FXYD1 Is Protective Against Vascular Dysfunction Hypertension 2020 Single‐Cell Immune Profiling in Coronary Artery Disease: The Role of State‐of‐the‐Art Immunophenotyping With Mass Cytometry in the Diagnosis of Atherosclerosis Circulation Research 2021 Association of Global Coagulation Profiles With Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Atherosclerosis: A Sex Disaggregated Analysis From the BioHEART‐CT Study Circulation Research 2021 A Call to Action for New Global Approaches to Cardiovascular Disease Drug Solutions Circulation Research 2021 Bench-to-Bedside in Vascular Medicine: Optimizing the Translational Pipeline for Patients With Peripheral Artery Disease Circulation Research 2021 Coronary artery disease patients without standard modifiable risk factors (SMuRFs)- a forgotten group calling out for new discoveries European Heart Journal 2021 A call to action for new global approaches to cardiovascular disease drug solutions European Heart Journal

Awards Figtree was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2023 Australia Day Honours.

She was awarded a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Excellence Award for Top Ranked Practitioner Fellow (Australia), commencing in 2018. In 2019 and 2020 she received the prestigious NSW Ministerial Award for Cardiovascular Research Excellence.