Dr Philip A Adams MBBS (Syd) FRACP FRCP (Edin) FCSANZ DDU

Dr Philip Adams is a clinical cardiologist with special interests in paediatric cardiology, adult congenital heart disease and echocardiography.  Dr Adams joined SA Heart in 2000.

Dr Adams graduated from Sydney University in 1969 and then worked at Royal Newcastle Hospital, Newcastle, NSW before going to the UK in 1972 where he completed adult and paediatric training at Hammersmith Hospital, Harefield Hospital and Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital, UK.

He obtained MRCP (UK) in 1973 and was made a Fellow of the College of Physicians in Edinburgh in 1994. He was admitted as a Fellow of the Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) in 1977and Fellowship to the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (FCSANZ) in 2004.  He also holds the Diploma of Diagnostic Ultrasound (DDU) and was a founding member of the ASUM (Australian Society for Ultrasound Medicine).

On his return to Australia in 1976 he worked at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne and then became staff specialist paediatric cardiologist at the Adelaide Children’s Hospital for 8 years until going into solo private practice for fourteen years prior to joining SA Heart in 2000.

During his time at the Adelaide Children’s Hospital he set up the first 2D echo lab in Australia and pioneered it’s use in both adult and paediatric cardiology.

Dr Adams consults at Ashford, North Adelaide, Flinders and Noarlunga.

Presentations & Publications

1. Primary Repair of Tetralogy in Infants under two years of age.  British Cardiac Society, 1973.
2. Aortic Homograft Valve Replacement for Postendocarditis.  Aortic Incompetence in Early Childhood.  Ach. Dis. Childhood 53 (9):759, September 1978.
3. The Management of Congenital Tricuspid Incompetence.  European Journal Cardiol 8/6, 599, 1978.  Assessment of  Severity of Fixed Aortic Stenosis in Children and Adolescents.  A.S.U.M., 1979.
4. Radionuclide Angiography.  Australian Cardiac Society, September 1978.
5. Quantitative Radionuclide Angiocardiography for Left to Right Cardiac Shunts in Children. Paediatric Cardiology 3: 1-5, 1982.
6. Myocardial Function in Children with Thalassaemia. Aust. & N.Z. Society of Nuclear Medicine, February, 1981.
7. Left Ventricular Function in Thalassaemia. ASEAN Congress of Cardiology, Singapore, 1980.
8. Two Dimensional Echocardiography in Congenital Heart Disease. Symposium in Echocardiography ASEAN Congress Of Cardiology, 1980.
9. Left Ventricular Function in Thalassaemia.  ASEAN journal of Clinical Sciences, March 1983.
10. Two Dimensional Echocardiography.  Normal Anatomy. ASUM, November, 1984.
11. Two Dimensional Echocardiography. Applications in Adult and Paediatric Cardiology. ASUM, November, 1981.
12. Blood Pressure Percentile Chart in Australian School Children. Paed. Res. 14, 8, 1011, 1980.
13. Congenital Left Coronary Artery – Right Ventricular Fistula Aust. Paed. Journal, March, 1983.
14. Cross-Sectional Echocardiographic Assessment of Coarctation in the Sick Infant and Neonate. Brit. Heart Journal 50 (4): 163, 1983.
15. Single-Trunk Anomalous Origin of Both Coronary Arteries from the Pulmonary Artery – Diagnosis & Surgical Management. J. Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surg. 87 (1) 59, 1984.
16. Chelatin Therapy does Reverse Myocardial Deterioration in Patients with Thalassaemia Major. Eur. Paed., Haematol. Oncol. (1): 125, 1984.
17. Measuring Blood Pressure in Children.  Lancet 1983 Dec. 3, 2 (8362): 1315.
18. Blood Pressure in School Children Measured Under Standardized Conditions.  The Med. Journal of Australia 149 (3): 132, 1988.
19. Haemoptysis: A Case Report with Tetralogy of Fallot with Absent Pulmonary Valve Leaflets and Anomolous Origin of Left Pulmonary Artery.  Aust. Paediatric Journal 23, 363, 1987.
20. Subarterial ventricular septal defect in an infant with sudden unexpected death: Cause or coincidence?  The American Journal of Cardiovascular Pathology, Vol. 3, No. 4: 333, (1990).
     

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