Stephen Nicholls

Program Director, Victorian Heart Hospital, Director, Monash Victorian Heart Institute, and Professor of Cardiology, Monash University, Melbourne.

Professor Nicholls leads Australia’s first dedicated heart hospital and integrated research institute and is President of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. He is a world-renowned cardiologist, has written more than 1000 manuscripts, book chapters and conference proceedings, and has raised more than $160 million in research funding. Professor Nicholls’ research broadly focuses on developing new strategies to reduce the risk of heart disease, involving translational research spanning preclinical human and clinical trials.