The University of New South Wales

Alumnus, Clinical Medicine

Other Affiliations: University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Medicine

Research Fellow

University of NSW and Merton College, Oxford

Thesis Title: Characterising Metabolic Mechanisms of Disease in Cardiomyopathies Using Multiparametric High Field Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging

About

Joe Suttie
Dr Joseph Julian Mark Suttie
MBBS BSc (Med) Hons (I) (UNSW) MBioeth (Monash), DPhil (Oxon)

FRACP

EDUCATION
Sydney Boys High School
St Vincent's Clinical School
University of NSW, University of Sydney, University of Cambridge, Monash University, Oxford University
Nuffield Research Fellow, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine,
John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK

Qualifications:
2007 Masters in Bioethics (Research Ethics), Monash University, Australia
2006 FRACP Pt 1
2001 MBBS BSc (Med) Hons (1), University of NSW, Australia
Professional Registration:
NSW Medical Board 16th January 2002 until present
GMC: 7010557 Registered 12 May 08.

Previous and other appointments (Last 5 years):

2002-2005 Intern and Resident Medical Officer, St Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

2005-2007 Medical Registrar, St Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

2008 Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Physicians

Teaching Registrar of the Year

Research Experience
Sub-investigator in numerous multicenter trials, St Vincents Hospital, Sydney.

Research Training:

Masters in Bioethics Monash University, Nov 2007
Good Clinical Practice May 7 2008

Awards
2011 Early Career Award Finalist 2011, Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) Imaging.
2011 SCMR 2011 European Regional Scholarship.
2010 British Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (BSCMR) Young Investigator Award Finalist. 2nd place.
2010 The Merton Graduate Students Prize – awarded annually to the best graduate student at Merton College, Oxford.
2008-09 Lord Nuffield Medical Fellowship, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Oxford.
2008-09 Sir John Monash Award for Leadership (National Australian Postgraduate Scholarship given to 8 Australian leaders annually, instituted as the “Australian Rhodes Scholarship”)
2008 St Vincent’s Hospital Foundation Medical Research Prize
2003 The Rehabilitation Medicine Prize, University of NSW.
2001 The Australian Medical Association Research Scholarship
2001 The J.G. Hunter Clinical Research Prize
2001 The Apple Honors Research Award
2000 The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Australia Traveling Grant
1998 The University of NSW Volunteerism Award
1998 The John Flynn Scholarship and the Leeton Rural Medicine Award.
1994 Dux & The Australian Students Prize, The Sydney Boys High School. 

Published Articles and Abstracts

Last two years only:

Suttie JJ, DelaBarre L, Pitcher A, van de Moortele PF, Dass S, Snyder CJ, Francis JM, Metzger GJ, Weale P, Ugurbil K, Neubauer S, Robson M, Vaughan T. 7 Tesla (T) human cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging using FLASH and SSFP to assess cardiac function: validation against 1.5T and 3T. NMR Biomed. July 2011. DOI 10.1002/nbm.1708.


(Equal First Author) Holloway C, Suttie JJ, Dass S, Neubauer S. Clinical Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases, Review article, accepted for publication July 2011.

Mahmood M, Karamitsos TD, Suttie JJ , Myerson SG, Neubauer S, Francis JM. Prevalence of cardiomyopathy in asymptomatic patients with left bundle branch block referred for cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging. International Journal of Cardiology. Manuscript: CAIM2326R1, Accepted for publication July 2011.

Yilmaz A, Suttie JJ, Petersen SE. Letter by Yilmaz et al. regarding article, "Analysis of dystrophin deletion in mutations predicts age of onset in Becker Muscular Dystrophy". Accepted for publication in Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics. 2010:3; e1. 

Penha-Goncalves C, Moule C, Smink LJ, Howson J, Gregory S, Rogers J, Lyons PA,    Suttie JJ, Lord CJ, Peterson LB, Todd JA, Wicker LS. Identification of a structurally distinct CD101 molecule encoded in the 950-kb Idd10 region of NOD mice. Diabetes 2003 Jun;52 (6):1551-6.

Abstracts
A Pitcher, T E Cassar, J Suttie, J M Francis, P Leeson, E Blair, B P Wordsworth, J C Forfar, M Markl, S N Neubauer, S E Petersen. 4D-flow CMR demonstrates the regional distribution of aortic flow disturbance in Marfan syndrome Heart 2011;97:A62 doi:10.1136/heartjnl-2011-300198.108.

A J Lewandowski, M Lazdam, E Davis, R Poole, J Diesch, J Francis, D Augustine, R Banerjee, J Suttie, S Neubauer, P Leeson. Myocardial systolic strain and subclinical atherosclerosis in young adult life. Heart 2011;97:A63 doi:10.1136/heartjnl-2011-300198.110.

Mahmood M, Karamitsos TD, Suttie JJ , Myerson SG, Neubauer S, Francis JM. Cardio vascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging (CMR) detects subclinical cardiomyopathy in patients with LBBB and normal echocardiograms. Heart 2011;97:A68-A69 doi:10.1136/heartjnl-2011-300198.119.

Bull, S.,  Suttie, J., Blundell, N., Francis, J.M., Karamitsos T.D., Pitcher, A., D’Arcy J., Prendergast,B., Neubauer, S., Myerson, S.G. Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) Tagging Identifies Differential Ventricular Remodelling in Patients with Bicuspid vs Tricuspid Aortic Valve Disease. Heart 2011;97:A92-A93 doi:10.1136/heartjnl-2011-300198.166. 

Suttie JJ, DeLaBarre L, Pitcher A, van de Moortele PF, Dass S, Snyder CJ, Francis JM, Metzger GJ, Weale P, Ugurbil K, Robson MD, Neubauer S, Vaughan T
Feasibility of ultrahigh field (7 Tesla) human cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging to assess cardiac volumes and mass validated against 1.5 T and 3T field strengths
Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2011, 13(Suppl 1):O45 (2 February 2011)

Suttie J, Dass S, Franco BR, Banerjee R, Cox P, Holloway C, Cochlinl L, Pitcher A, Francis J, Karamitsos T, Clarke K, Schneider J, Petersen S, Robson M, Watkins H, Neubauer S
Dystrophinopathies are characterised by impaired cardiac metabolism, contractile dysfunction and fibrosis in patients with and without coxsackie B3 exposure
Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2011, 13(Suppl 1):O59 (2 February 2011).

Bull S, Pitcher A, Francis JM, Suttie J, Joseph J, D'Arcy J, Prendergast B, Becher H, Karamitsos TD, Neubauer S, Myerson SG. CMR improves identification of aortic valve morphology in aortic stenosis. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2011, 13(Suppl 1):P332 (2 February 2011).

Pitcher A, Cassar TE, Suttie J, Francis JM, Leeson P, Blair E, Wordsworth BP, Forfar JC, Myerson SG, Markl M, Neubauer S, Petersen SE. Visualisation of aortic flow disturbance in Marfan syndrome by 4D phase-contrast CMR. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2011, 13(Suppl 1):P201 (2 February 2011).

Holloway CJ, Suttie J, Dass S, Cox P, Jackson H, Johnson AW, Francis JM, Karamitsos T, Neubauer S, Clarke K. Exercise training improves cardiac function, quality of life and exercise capacity in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy.  Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2011, 13(Suppl 1):P349 (2 February 2011).

Lewandowski AJ, Lazdam M, Diesch J, Francis JM, Augustine D, Banerjee R, Suttie JJ, Neubauer S, Leeson P. Myocardial systolic strain assessed by cardiovascular magnetic resonance relates to subclinical atherosclerosis in healthy young adults. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2011, 13(Suppl 1):O95 (2 February 2011).

Banerjee R, Rial B, Suttie JJ, Cox P, Lewandowski AJ, Johnson A, Rider O, Holloway C, Francis J, Robson MD, Schneider J, Clarke K, Leeson P, Neubauer S. Cardiac steatosis is associated with excess body weight in otherwise healthy adults. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2011, 13(Suppl 1):O82 (2 February 2011).

Augustine D, Cox P, Suttie JJ, Leeson P. Assessment of left ventricular 3D speckle tracking echocardiography using vendor dependent and vender independent software with CMR correlation. Eur Heart J (2011)(suppl 1) accepted.

Suttie JJ, Dass S, Franco B, Banerjee R, Cox P, Holloway C, Lazdam M, Pitcher A, Johnson A, Cochlin L, Francis JM, Karamitsos TD, Forfar C, Hilton-Jones D, Robson MD, Schneider JE, Petersen SE, Watkins H, Neubauer S. Dystrophinopathies are Characterised by Impaired Cardiac Metabolism, Contractile Dysfunction and Fibrosis in Patients with and without Coxsackie B Exposure. Medical Research Society Communications, 2011, Spring 2011; P.11:A19.

Rial B., Suttie J.J., Neubauer S., Robson M.D., Schneider J.E. Identification of two myocardial lipid pools in muscular dystrophy patients by 1H MRS at 3 T. Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the ISMRM. 2010.

Suttie JJ, Dass S, Franco B, Banerjee R, Cox P, Holloway C, Lazdam M, Pitcher A, Johnson A, Cochlin L, Francis JM, Karamitsos TD, Forfar C, Hilton-Jones D, Clarke K, Robson MD, Schneider JE, Petersen SE, Watkins H, Neubauer S. Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy Detects Myocardial Fibrosis and Lipidosis in Patients with Dystrophinopathies, Even in the Presence of Normal Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction. Circulation, Nov, 2010;122:A19421.

Suttie JJ, DelaBarre L, van de Moortele PF, Snyder CJ, Metzger GJ, Weale P, Ugurbil K, , Neubauer S, Robson M, Vaughan T,.7Tesla cardiac magnetic resonance: a validation study. Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the ISMRM, Stockholm 2010, Electronic poster.

Suttie JJ, DelaBarre L, van de Moortele PF, Snyder CJ, Metzger GJ, Weale P, Ugurbil K, Robson M, Vaughan T, Neubauer S. High field (7 Tesla) cardiovascular MRI: a feasibility and comparison study. Heart 96:A51-A52 doi:10.1136/hrt.2010.196071.6

Suttie JJ, DelaBarre L, Pitcher A, van de Moortele PF, Dass S, Snyder CJ, Francis JM, Metzger GJ, Weale P, Ugurbil K, Neubauer S, Robson M, Vaughan T. High Field (7 Tesla) Human Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Assess Cardiac Volumes and Mass Validated Against 1.5T and 3T. Heart, Lung and Circulation 2010 (Vol. 19 Supplement 2, Page S182).

Suttie JJ, Dass S, Karamitsos TD, Holloway C, Cox P, Ferreira V, Cochlin L, Francis JM, Johnson A, Forfar C, Hilton-Jones D, Clarke K, Robson MD, Schneider JE, , Watkins H, Neubauer S, Petersen SE. Multi-Parametric Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging (CMR) Detects Myocardial Fibrosis and Impaired Strain in Patients with Dystrophinopathies Even in the Presence of Normal Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction. Heart, Lung and Circulation 2010 (Vol. 19Supplement 2, Pages S44-S45).

Suttie JJ, Dass S, Karamitsos TD, Holloway CJ, Cochlin LE, Francis JM, Johnson AW, Forfar C, Hilton-Jones D, Robson MD, Watkins HM, Neubauer S, Petersen SE. Dystrophinopathy is associated with myocardial fibrosis and impaired high energy phosphate metabolism even without left ventricular systolic impairment. British Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 24 March 2010, Young Investigator Finalist. 

Suttie JJ, Dass S, Karamitsos TD, Holloway CJ, Cochlin LE, Francis JM, Johnson AW, Forfar C, Hilton-Jones D, Robson MD, Watkins HM, Neubauer S, Petersen SE. Becker and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (BMD, DMD) are associated with myocardial fibrosis and abnormal cardiac energetics even in the presence of normal left ventricular ejection fraction. Journal of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance 2010, 12(Suppl 1):O92.

Suttie JJ, Yilmaz A, Dass, S, Karamitsos TD, Francis JM, Forfar C, Hilton-Jones D, Hugh Watkins, Stefan Neubauer, Steffen Petersen, Udo Sechtem. Two center study to assess the functional relevance of myocardial fibrosis in muscular dystrophy patients with and without left ventricular systolic dysfunction. Journal of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance 2010, 12(Suppl 1):P260.

Dass S, Cochlin L, Holloway C, Suttie JJ, Johnson A, Clarke K, Neubauer S. Development and validation of a short 31P cardiac magnetic resonance spectroscopy (31PMRS) protocol. Journal of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance 2010, 12(Suppl 1):P123.

Suttie JJ. The ethics of cardiac transplantation. Global Bioethics Conference. Chicago, June 2009 (poster and presentation).

Suttie JJ, Suttie MC. The ethics of research ethics committees. Global Bioethics Conference, Chicago, June 2009. (poster).

Books
Coauthor: MRCP Examinations Project, Oxford University Press, 2011.

Previous Research (>2 years ago).

Schembri MA, Major DA, Suttie JJ, Maxwell WMC & Evans G. Capacitation like changes in equine spermatozoa throughout the cryopreservation process. Reprod. Fert. Dev. 2002 14,225-233.

Schembri MA, Major DA, Suttie JJ, Maxwell WMC & Evans G. Capacitation like changes in equine spermatozoa throughout the cryopreservation process. Proc. Int. Cong. Anim. Reprod. 2002 14 17:9 (Poster).

Schembri MA, Major DA, Suttie JJ, Maxwell WMC & Evans G. Modification of standard media to limit capacitation and maximise motility. Aust Vet J. 2003 Dec;81(12):748-51.

THESIS: Suttie JJ. Functional analysis of candidate genes in type I diabetes. Research completed at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research submitted to the University of NSW, Nov 2001.

THESIS: Suttie JJ. The ethics of international organ transplantation. Philosophy Faculty, Monash University, 2007.

THESIS: Suttie JJ. Characterising metabolic mechanisms of disease in cardiomyopathies using cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, 2011.

Reviewer for the following medical research journals:

Metabolism, Internal Medicine Journal, Neurology, Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging et al. 

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