Professor Prashanthan Sanders

Professor Sanders is a clinical academic based at the University of Adelaide, Royal Adelaide Hospital and the South Australian Health and Medical Research Insititute. He is the Director of the Centre for Heart Rhythm Disorders at the University of Adelaide; Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacing at the Royal Adelaide Hospital; and the Group Leader for Heart Rhythm Disorders at SAHMRI.

He graduated from the University of Adelaide with Honours, awarded several prizes and named on the Dean’s list for academic merit. He trained as a Cardiologist was at the Royal Adelaide Hospital before sub-specialising in Cardiac Electrophysiology at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. His doctoral studies at the University of Melbourne were under the mentorship of Professor Jonathan Kalman. His postdoctoral studies were with the team of Professor Michel Haissaguerre at the Hôpital Cardiologique du Haut-Lévêque and Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux II, Bordeaux, France.

In 2005 he moved back to Adelaide and has established a formidable team of clinicians and researchers who span the spectrum of research into heart rhythm disorders; ranging from computer modelling of cardiac arrhythmias, cellular electrophysiology, small and large animal models of disease to evaluate arrhythmia mechanisms, clinical mechanistic, outcome and more recently population based studies. The group has an established clinical trials program and is involved in development of novel technologies.

Professor Sanders has published in excess of 600 peer-reviewed manuscripts which have been cited over 68,000 times and an H-index of 102 (GS).

Professor Sanders has been awarded several accolades. Most recently the Eric Susman Prize from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (2020) for the best contribution to the knowledge of any branch of internal medicine.

Professor Sanders holds the Knapman - NHF Chair of Cardiology Research and is supported by a Practitioner Fellowship from the NHMRC.

In recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field, Professor Sanders was awarded an L2 Investigator Grant from the NHMRC (2023-2027) for his project "Managing the First Pillar for Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke".