Steven Unger
M.B.B.S., F.R.A.C.P., Ph.D.
Cardiologist
Nuclear Physician

Current appointments:

• Director of Nuclear Medicine, The Queen Elizabeth and Lyell McEwin Hospitals
• Staff Cardiologist, TQEH & LMHS
• Clinical Lecturer, The University of Adelaide
• Councillor, the Australian and New Zealand Association of Physicians in Nuclear Medicine
• Private Practise: Manse Clinic, Woodville
• Northern Cardiology, Elizabeth Vale

Post-Graduate Speciality Training:

• Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians 1996
• PhD in Cardiac Metabolism, University of Adelaide, 1997-2000
• Clinical Fellowship in Nuclear Cardiology, University of Virginia, USA, 2000-2001

Research and Clinical Interests:

• Non-invasive imaging of myocardial ischaemia
• New cardiac stress protocols
• Metabolic therapies for myocardial ischaemia
• Aortic stenosis
• Myocardial viability
• Renal transplant imaging
• Co-registration of nuclear and CT images
• Cardiac MRI

Contact Details:

The Department of Nuclear Medicine, TQEH
Phone 8222 6431
Fax 8222 6038
e-mail: steven.unger@nwahs.sa.gov.au

Dr Steve Unger is a graduate of the University of Adelaide, and undertook physician training at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Adelaide. He has specialist qualifications in nuclear medicine and cardiology, and also completed a PhD investigating the role of alterations in cardiac metabolism in the treatment of myocardial ischaemia. Following a post-doctoral stint at the University of Virginia Nuclear Cardiology Lab, he returned to take up the position of Director of Nuclear Medicine at both the Queen Elizabeth and Lyell McEwin Hospitals. In addition he maintains a position as staff cardiologist and sees privately referred patients at both the Manse Clinic and at Northern Cardiology. More recently he has taken on a leading role in the development of cardiac MRI at the QEH, and was on the Organising Committee for the inaugural Australasian Cardiovascular Imaging Symposium in 2003. His main interests are the diagnosis and treatment of coronary disease with an emphasis on non-invasive imaging of myocardial ischaemia, and is the Principal Investigator of several multi-centre trials involving the Cardiology and Nuclear Medicine Departments at the QEH.