Rate My Professor Martin Brown

Associate Professor Martin Brown is a Clinical Associate Professor in Macquarie Medical School within the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences at Macquarie University. He is a cardiologist specialising in advanced heart failure, cardiac transplantation, and pulmonary hypertension. A/Prof Brown graduated from London University in 1994 and completed specialist training in both Cardiology and General Medicine in 2007. He undertook a Fellowship in advanced heart failure and heart transplantation at The Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane in 2008, where he served as a staff cardiologist in the cardiac transplant unit for five years before returning to Sydney in 2014. He holds positions as an honorary visiting medical officer at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and a visiting medical officer at Northern Beaches Hospital, Macquarie University Hospital, and Sydney Adventist Hospital. Additionally, he is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland and founder of the Sydney Pulmonary Hypertension Specialist Group. His clinical interests include management of cardiomyopathies and advanced heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, structural heart disease, percutaneous valve therapies, high-risk surgery patients, and transplant cardiology.

Previously head of departmental research at the Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Unit at The Prince Charles Hospital for five years, A/Prof Brown has authored over 60 publications and serves as a guest reviewer for journals such as Heart, Lung and Circulation, Circulation, European Heart Journal, and European Society of Cardiology. He has been an investigator in multiple international clinical trials and is currently leading several trials in heart failure and pulmonary hypertension at Macquarie University Hospital. He holds fellowships from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (2007), Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (2009), European Society of Cardiology (2012), and Royal College of Physicians (London) (2014). Key publications include 'Impact of mental disorders on unplanned readmissions for congestive heart failure patients: a population-level study' (2024), 'Prevalence of Australians exposed to potentially cardiotoxic cancer medicines: a population-based cohort study' (2023), 'Inspiratory muscle training improves inspiratory muscle strength and functional exercise capacity in pulmonary arterial hypertension and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: a pilot randomised controlled study' (2021), and 'MitraClip-related infective endocarditis in a frail, elderly patient: a case report' (2021).