Associate Professor Sonny Palmer

BA BSc MBBS DMedSci FRACP FCSANZ

Contact Details

Knox Private Hospital
Knox Private Hospital Sessional Suites, 262 Mountain Highway Wantirna 3152
03 9510 9020
03 9210 7200
dianne.drosario@healthscope.com.au

Associate Professor Sonny Palmer

Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology

Associate Professor Sonny Palmer is a Consultant Cardiologist with subspecialty expertise in Coronary and Structural Heart Intervention.

Sonny is the clinical lead for the Structural Heart Program at Knox Private Hospital, where TAVI (Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation) will be a new treatment option for patients with Aortic Stenosis.

Expertise

Sonny graduated from The University of Melbourne and completed his clinical training in Cardiology at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne. He then completed subspecialty training in Coronary and Structural Heart Intervention at St Vincent’s Hospital and James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom.

Sonny is a Proctor and helps train future interventional and structural cardiologists.

Sonny was awarded a Doctorate at The University of Melbourne in 2016.
He was the recipient of the prestigious National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and National Heart Foundation (NHF) scholarships. He has been involved in several pioneering interventional trials, is actively involved in clinical research and is a supervisor of higher research degree candidates, FRACP physician trainees, junior doctors and Doctor of Medicine students.

Hospital appointments:
• Knox Private Hospital
• St Vincent’s Public Hospital Melbourne
• Box Hill Hospital (Eastern Health)

Interests

Coronary Artery and Ischaemic Heart Disease

Cardiovascular risk factor management
Coronary angiography & percutaneous coronary intervention
CT coronary angiography

Structural Heart Disease

Valvular heart disease (aortic, mitral and tricuspid)
Balloon aortic valvuloplasty
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)
Transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVr)
Percutaneous closure of patent foramen ovale (PFO), and
Atrial septal defects (ASD)