Professor William Parsonage

Professor William Parsonage is a Director of the Queensland Cardiovascular Group, Visiting Cardiologist at St Vincents Private Hospital Northside and a Senior Staff Cardiologist at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH). A graduate of the University of Nottingham Medical School (UK), he earned his higher degree of Doctor of Medicine for research in chronic heart failure before moving to Australia in 2000.

His clinical expertise spans general cardiology, echocardiography, and a pioneering focus on heart disease during pregnancy. Notably, he established Australia’s first dedicated multidisciplinary clinic for pregnant patients with heart disease at the RBWH over 15 years ago.

Beyond clinical practice, Professor Parsonage has been the Clinical Director for the Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation at QUT since 2018. His research focuses on improving the safety and speed of chest pain diagnostics, atherosclerotic coronary artery disease, and maternal heart disease; fields in which he has published and presented extensively worldwide. He was listed as one of the countries 250 top researchers by ‘The Australian’ in 2021. He is a long-standing leader within the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand as a Fellow, Board Member and will be President of the Society from 2026-28.