Why Virtual Cardiac Centre?

Aim Our aim is to help patients, physicians and specialists to be better informed about health and heart related topics. About the Cardiac Centre The virtualcardiaccentre.com reaches patients, their families and friends and also cardiologists and other medical specialists involved in the diagnosis, treatment, and support of heart related conditions. It is one of nineteen individual information centres within the Virtual Medical Centre (as shown below). Each centre is complete with information on drugs, disease, treatment, trials, symptoms, support and breaking news. The information posted is Australian specific and updated every 12 hours by a team of medical researchers. Each centre has a Medical Director who works on ensuring the quality of information on the site is maintained and continually enhanced. Dr Brendan McQuillan is the Medical Director of the Virtual Bone Centre. Brendan's undergraduate medical degree was completed at the University of Western Australia in 1989. His basic training in internal medicine was at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital from 1990 to 1994. He then spent three years in full-time research towards a PhD at the WA Heart Research Institute investigating novel risk factors for atherosclerosis. This work led to publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals and Brendan has presented over forty times at National and International Cardiology Meetings. He has been awarded postgraduate medical research fellowships from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, the Raine Medical Research Foundation, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and the University of Western Australia. He has received awards and was a finalist for the advanced trainees' prize for abstract presentations at the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand Annual Scientific Meetings. He travelled to Boston, Massachusetts for sub-speciality training in Echocardiography. Brendan was also a Cardiovascular Research Fellow at Harvard University and continued collaborative research in echocardiography with interests in pulmonary hypertension, contrast echocardiography, bicuspid aortic valves and percutaneous closure of atrial septal defects. Brendan is a Senior Lecturer in Cardiology with the University of Western and works as a Cardiologist at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and consults privately with Western Cardiology. Brendan has interests in innovative methods for teaching and learning in Medical Education and research work with genetic and inflammatory processes in atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease. As Medical Director, Dr McQuillan is also assisted by an Editorial Advisory Board (EAB).   Editorial Advisory Board The EAB is a group of medical specialists who have formed together in their particular area of medical expertise to contribute comments and feedback on the information that is displayed on the relevant centre. The Virtual Medical Centre's EAB consists of over 1,000 medical professionals. Click on the link below to view the Cardiac Centre's Editorial Advisory Board.

Virtual Cardiac Centre Editorial Advisory Board (EAB)

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Accreditations and Associations

Virtual Medical Centre is accredited by the Geneva Switzerland HON International Ethics Code delivering our organisation the highest level of transparency and ethical standards available on the internet today.

Awards

2005 Finalist in the Secrets of Australian IT Innovation Awards
2004 Winner of the Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Community Business Partnerships for Western Australia
Finalist in the National Prime Ministers Awards for Small Business
2004 Finalist in the Secrets of Australian IT Innovation Awards
2004 Winner of the Golden Web Awards

Membership

Joining Virtual Medical Centres is COMPLETELY FREE!

You can join for free as:
• A Medical Practitioner – using your provider number
• An Allied Health Professional
• Medical Student
• A General Public Member

Benefits of Joining:

Medical Practitioner
• Access to a medical professional level of information
• View medically sensitive details
• Receive breaking news alerts sent via email
• Complimentary listing on the Health Directory
• Free brochures and posters on request
• Receive a fortnightly e-Newsletters which includes latest news, events and trials

Allied Health Professionals and Medical Students
• Viewing detailed information
• Receive a fortnightly e-Newsletters which includes latest news, events and trials
• Breaking news alerts sent via email
• Free brochures and posters on request

General Public
• See the graphic pictures your doctors see
• View detailed information
• View sensitive information
• Customise the pages to suite you
• Receive a fortnightly e-Newsletters which includes latest news, events and trials
• Breaking news alerts sent via email
• Free brochures and posters on request

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History of Virtual Medical Centre

Dr Andrew Dean, Senior Palliative Care Specialist in WA discovered his patients had a real need for information on cancer. At times of great stress when people have been devastated by bad news of cancer or a life threatening disease, information retention is at its poorest. Often the patient will walk out of the doctor’s room feeling confused and uninformed.

Dr Dean decided to create an intranet site about cancer at his hospital for patients to use. He soon had people from other hospitals asking him for access to the information.

That’s when Dr Dean decided to team up with Pearl Farmer and International Businessman Mr Wayne Hughes to make the information on cancer available to everyone on the World Wide Web and www.virtualcancercentre.com was born.

Virtual Cancer Centre.com went live in August 2001 and got 20,000 hits in the first month. The team was very excited with the traffic back then, almost three years later, an average of 1.2 million page requests are recorded each month!

Partners:

Below are all the partners who have contributed to the success of the Virtual Medical Centre since commencement:

Queries, Questions and Corrections

We appreciate all the industry help we can muster so please send all queries, requests, comments, corrections or suggestions via e-mail to service@virtualmedicalcentre.com where they will be acted upon immediately to 24 hours after receiving the communication!