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Matthew Aitken, MBChB

Consultant Radiologist/Director of Training
Gold Coast University Hospital, Australia

Dr Matthew Aitken, MBChB, FRANZCR, Consultant Radiologist/Director of Training, Gold Coast University Hospital

Dr Aitken completed fellowships in Advanced Cardiac Imaging at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre at Toronto General Hospital, a quaternary referral center for adult congenital heart disease, organ transplantation, complex cardiac ablations and device implantation, and in Abdominal/Body Imaging at St Michael’s hospital, Toronto. During fellowship he obtained 2 first authorship publications in Radiology, performing meta-analyses comparing diagnostic accuracy and prognostic significance of cardiac MRI versus FDG-PET in cardiac sarcoidosis, and presented both papers at the worlds largest radiology conference, RSNA. He was a finalist for the American Heart Association Young Investigator Award at the North American Society for Cardiovascular Imaging (NASCI) meeting in 2021, and received a Certificate of Merit award at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) meeting in 2022.

He has presented and chaired multiple sessions at local and Australasian RANZCR Annual Scientific Meetings, was an invited guest speaker at the Society for Cardiac MRI Global Conference in London 2024, and is a Clinical Reviewer for the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance.

He is passionate about registrar education and training, and is currently one of the Directors of Training at Gold Coast University Hospital (GCUH). He is secretary of the Queensland Branch of RANZCR and serves on the RANZCR Pathology Examination Panel. He volunteers with Radiology Across Borders as a TIDES (Teleradiology in Disaster Events, Screening and Second opinions) Radiologist and assists with webinars.

His special interests include advanced cardiac imaging including Cardiac MRI, and abdominopelvic MRI. At GCUH he is one of the specialists involved in taking the multidisciplinary meetings for Chest, and Gynaecology Oncology.

In his spare time, Matthew enjoys travelling around the world to dive with sharks and continuing his passion for meta-analyses.

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