Dr Cassia Kessler

“I am deeply committed to offering my cardiology patients a range of options to enhance their health, longevity, and quality of life. I continuously seek to expand my knowledge and stay current with advancements to provide the highest level of care.”

Special clinical interest in heart failure, cardiomyopathy, cardiac transplantation and cardiac imaging

About Dr Cassia Kessler

Dr Cassia Kessler is a Specialist Consultant Cardiologist with expertise in heart failure, heart transplantation, inherited cardiomyopathies, and cardiac imaging. She holds a Fellowship from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and is a member of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. Additionally, she is certified as a cardiac CT specialist by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists.

Dr Kessler graduated with honours from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and completed her Specialist Cardiology training at the National Institute of Cardiology, where she also completed a fellowship in echocardiography. She relocated to Australia in 2018 to further specialise in Heart Failure and Transplantation at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, where she worked as a staff-specialist.

Dedicated to research and medical education, Dr Kessler is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of New South Wales and the prestigious Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, focusing her research on cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and cardiomyopathies. She has an extensive record in cardiac research, with numerous peer-reviewed publications in both national and international journals. She also serves as a conjoint lecturer at the University of New South Wales and a clinical lecturer at Macquarie University, where she actively trains cardiology registrars, junior doctors, and medical students.

In her professional role, Dr Kessler works as a Heart Failure specialist at Northern Beaches Hospital. As a general cardiologist, she provides comprehensive care for a wide range of cardiac conditions, including heart failure, advanced heart failure therapies, cardiomyopathies, valvular heart disease, ischemic heart disease, arrhythmias, pre-operative cardiac risk assessment, and women’s cardiology.

Dr Cassia Kessler speaks Portuguese and English.

Awards

• CSANZ travel award, August 2024
• University Postgraduate Award (UPA) for Term 2, 2021 for study towards a PhD in the Faculty of Medicine and Health, May 2021
• International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation – ISHLT Annual Meeting Registration Award, March 2021

Professional Memberships

• Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (unrestricted general and specialist registration in cardiology) MED0002183901
• Royal Australasian College of Physicians (Cardiology) MIN 92902
• Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand
• Level A CTCA Specialist

Publications

• Kessler Iglesias C, Bloom JE, Xiao X, Moskovitch J, Eckford H, Offen S, Kotlyar E, Keogh A, Jabbour A, Bergin P, Leet A, Hare JL, Taylor AJ, Hayward CS, Jansz P, Kaye DM, Macdonald PS, Muthiah K. Early Use of Aspirin for Coronary Allograft Prophylaxis in Heart Transplant Recipients. Transplantation. 2024 Jul 18. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000005131. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39020464.
• Kessler Iglesias C, Pouliopoulos J, Situ Y, Johnson R, Rigas G, Lord R, Martin D, Hayward C, Fatkin D, Jabbour A. Deep phenotyping of obesity cardiomyopathy. Heart Lung Circ 2024; 33(Suppl 4):180.
• Kessler Iglesias C, Pouliopoulos J, Situ Y, Johnson R, Hayward C, Jabbour A, Fatkin D. Early diagnosis of titin cardiomyopathy. Heart Lung Circ 2024;33(Suppl 4):310.
• Kessler Iglesias C, Pouliopoulos J, Thomas L, Hayward CS, Jabbour A, Fatkin D. Atrial cardiomyopathy: Current and future imaging methods for assessment of atrial structure and function. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. 2023;10:1099625.
• Iglesias CPK, Duarte PVF, Miranda JSdS, Machado LdG, Andrade CRA. Hemochromatosis: Reversible Cause of Heart Failure. International Journal of Cardiovascular Sciences. 2018;31:308-311.