Assoc. Prof. Margaret Arstall
Cardiologist
Qualification
M.B.B.S, Ph.D., F.R.A.C.P., F.C.S.A.N.Z
Practice Location
- Northern Cardiology and Specialists Clinic
- Port Pirie GP Plus Health Care Centre [50 Gertrude Street, Port Pirie]
Specialist Biography
A/Prof Margaret Arstall has been a cardiologist at Northern Cardiology and Specialists Clinic since 1992. She has an interest in adult general cardiology with special expertise in implanting and managing cardiac devices, heart failure, ischaemic heart disease and obstetric cardiology.
Her academic training includes medical studies and PhD with the University of Adelaide. She trained as a cardiologist at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital. As a Heart Foundation Ralph Reader Overseas Research Fellow (1996-1999), an RACP, JJ Billings Overseas Research Scholar (1996) and Thomas W Smith Research Scholar (1997), she was able to continue post-doctoral research at Harvard University before returning to TQEH in Adelaide as a cardiologist and clinical academic. She then accepted the role of Director of Cardiology at NALHN in 2007 and continues in the role currently.
A/Prof Margaret Arstall has research interests in how cardiac disease interplays with pregnancy both at the time of pregnancy and the ongoing cardiovascular risk for women who develop a pregnancy complication such as hypertension, preeclampsia, or gestational diabetes. She also advocates for the research and quality assurance value of setting up and maintaining high quality registries of patients with cardiac issues, such as cardiac problems in pregnancy, out of hospital cardiac arrest, infective endocarditis and is on the steering committee for the Coronary Angiogram Database of SA (CADOSA).
Throughout her career A/Prof Margaret Arstall has strived to offer world best cardiac care for Northern Adelaide and rural South Australia.