Dr Susan Wright

Dr Wright trained as a cardiologist in Auckland, New Zealand, specialising in cardiac ultrasound (also called echocardiography). She completed a Masters of Medical science, where she developed an interest in heart failure, which is a common cardiac condition which accounts for more hospital beds occupied in Australia than any other medical condition.

Over the next 5 years Dr Wright completed a Doctorate in Philosophy examining the use of a blood test for a heart protein, called B-type Natriuretic Peptide, for the diagnosis in heart failure. She then moved to Sydney in 2004 to work as a Cardiology Fellow at St Vincent’s hospital, specialising in cardiac echocardiography. Dr Wright then worked at St George Hospital as a cardiologist, before returning to New Zealand where she worked as a cardiologist at Middlemore and Greenlane Hospitals for two years. She returned permanently to Sydney in 2009 and joined Peninsula Cardiology.