Dr Xavier Brennan is a CTCA accredited specialist with extensive experience in Cardiac CT imaging (CTCA and CAC). He is part of the Advara HeartCare CTCA team, providing streamlined cardiac care services in the area of Sydney.
Special clinical interest in in heart failure, infiltrative cardiomyopathies and the role of MRI tissue characterisation techniques in cardiac pathology.
About Dr Xavier Brennan
Dr Xavier Brennan is a Staff Specialist Cardiologist in the Sydney Local Health District at Canterbury Hospital where he leads the Heart Failure Clinic. Dr Brennan has sub-speciality training in cardiac imaging. Graduating from the University of New South Wales in 2013, Dr Brennan was then accepted into cardiology advanced training at the prestigious St. Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney. In 2020 he was the NSW transplant cardiology registrar and completed rotations in advanced heart failure. He became a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Physicians (FRACP) in 2022.
Dr Brennan then completed a cardiac imaging fellowship at the Advanced Cardiac Imaging Centre in Sydney. He achieved Level B accreditation in reporting cardiac CT and has expertise in reporting cardiac MRI equivalent to Level 3 accreditation with the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR). Having reported more than 1,300 cardiac MRIs, he is also a member of the SCMR. Dr Brennan further expanded his expertise through formal training in cardiogenetics at Antwerp University Hospital in Belgium.
Dr Brennan’s subspeciality training allows him to offer personalised advanced cardiac phenotyping and genotyping for his patients. His special interests include cardiomyopathies and MRI tissue characterisation in cardiac pathology.
In terms of research, Dr Brennan has numerous publications and led one of the first Australian studies published into cardiac AL amyloidosis survival. More details on Dr Brennan’s research accomplishments are here.
Outside medicine he enjoys spending time with his young family, watching AFL and travelling back to his family’s sheep grazing property in western Victoria.
