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Accredited TAVI Practitioner in SA

Biography

Associate Professor Jayme Bennetts is a Cardiothoracic Surgeon based in South Australia. He has current clinical appointments as the Director of the Department of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery at the Flinders Medical Centre, and Staff Specialist at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in South Australia.

Dr Bennetts completed a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery at the Flinders University of South Australia. He complete Read More...

Procedures & Conditions

Procedures Performed
  • Adult Cardiac Surgery
  • Off-Pump Coronary Surgery
  • Complex Mitral Valve Surgery
  • Complex Aortic Surgery
  • Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI)
  • Adult Congenital Surgery
  • Paediatric Cardiac Surgery
Conditions Treated
  • Valvular Heart Disease including Rheumatic Valvular Disease
  • Coronary Artery Disease
  • Aortic Pathologies
  • Adult Congenital Pathologies
  • Paediatric Cardiac Disease
  • Heart Failure
  • Aortic Stenosis
  • Aortic Aneurysm
  • Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm
  • Heart Valve Disease

Experience

  • Associate Professor, Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery, Division of Surgery
    College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University 2014 - Present
  • Director, Department of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery
    Flinders Medical Centre 2008 - Present
  • Staff Specialist, Department of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery
    Flinders Medical Centre 2006 - Present
  • Staff Specialist, Department of Cardiac Surgery
    Women's and Children's Hospital, SA Health 2006 - Present
  • Senior Fellow, Department of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery
    Flinders Medical Centre 2006
  • Clinical Paediatric Fellow, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery
    Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada 2005
  • Chief Fellow, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery
    Toronto General Hospital & University of Toronto, Canada 2004 - 2005
  • Fellow, Department of Paediatric Cardiac Surgery
    Children's Hospital Westmead, New South Wales 2004
  • Associate Lecturer, Department of Surgery
    Flinders University, School of Medicine 1999 - 2000

Memberships

Professional Memberships and Affiliations
  • 2014 - Present

    Vice President and Chair of Government Relations Committee, Australia and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery

  • 2013 - Present

    Acute Care Working Group, Better Cardiac Care for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander People Forum

  • 2013 - Present

    Advisory Board, Transcatheter Valves, Edwards Lifesciences

  • 2013 - Present

    Clinical Advisory Board, Medtronic Asia-Pacific

  • 2011 - Present

    Clinical Committee for the Clinical Examination, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

  • 2010 - Present

    Member, SA State Committee, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

  • 2010 - Present

    Statewide Surgical Taskforce

  • 2010 - Present

    Steering Committee, SOLACE Trial, Edwards Lifesciences

  • 2010 - Present

    Medical Credentialing Committee

  • 2009 - Present

    Steering Committee, Department of Health, Government of South Australia

  • 2009 - Present

    Adult Congenital Heart Disease Committee

  • 2009 - Present

    Emerging Cardiac Technologies Committee

  • 2009 - 2012

    Board Member, Australasian Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons

  • 2004

    Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS)

  • Australia and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons (ANZSCTS)

  • Fellow of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ)

Research & Publications

Publications

1. Andrew MJ, Baker RA, Bennetts JS, Kneebone AC, Knight JL.  A comparison of neuropsychological deficits after extracardiac and intracardiac surgery. J Cardiothor Vasc Anaes. 2001 Feb; 15(1): 9-14

2. Bennetts JS, Arnolda LF, Cullen HC, Knight JL, Baker RA, McKitrick DJ.  Coronary artery baroreceptor-mediated changes in arterial pressure: a p[ilot study in concious and anaesthetised sheep. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol.  2001 Sep;  28(9): 768-72.

3. Bennetts JS, Baker RA, Ross IK, and Knight JL.  Assessment of Myocardial Injury by Troponin T in Off Pump Coronary Artery Grafting and Conventional Coronary Artery Graft Surgery. ANZ J Surg.  2002 Feb; 72(2): 105-9

4. Nagahiro I, Horton M, Wilson M, Bennetts JS, Spratt PM, Granville AR.  Pulmonary Vein Thrombosis treated successfully by Thrombectomy after bilateral sequential lung transplantation: Report of a Case. Surg Today  (2003) 33: 282-284

5. Alsoufi B,  Bennetts J, Verma S, Caldarone CA.  New developments in the treatment of hypoplastic left heart syndrome. [review].  Paediatrics.  2007 Jan; 119(1): 109-17.

6. Bennetts JS,  Byth K, Morris M, Bagia JS, Paterson HS.  Left Ventricular Reconstruction by Modified Linear Technique with Absorbable Suture.  Heart, Lung, & Circulation.  2007 Dec; 16(6): 428-33

7. Nunn GR, Bennetts J, Onikul E.  Durability of hand sewn valves in the right ventricular outlet.  JTCVS.  2008 Aug; 136(2): 290-6.

8. Baker RA, Newland RF, Bennetts J. Biofeedback: making the science real. Journal of Extracorporeal Technology. 2009; 41(4):P38-P42.

9. Tully PJ, Bennetts JS, Baker RA, McGavigan AD, Turnbull DA, Winefield HR.  Anxiety, depression and stress as risk factors for atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery. Heart and Lung: 2011, 40(1), 4-11

10. Winter M, Altman M, Selvanayagam J, Bennetts JS, Joseph M.  Mycotic aortic aneurysm: A case of an unlikely location and an unlikely pathogen. Heart, Lung & Circulation.  20(3):193-6, 2011 Mar.

11. Chong F, Thakkar J, Nadarajah K, Bennetts J, Joseph M.  An unusual case of amaurosis fugax due to papillary fibroelastoma of cor triatriatum. European Journal of Echocardiography, August 10, 2011.

12. Tully PJ, Bennetts JS, Baker RA, McGavigan AD, Turnbull DA, Winefield HR.  Anxiety, depression and stress as risk factors for atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery. Psychol, Health Med: 2011; 16(3); 333-345

13. Tully PJ, Cardinal T, Bennetts JS, Baker RA.  Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, venlafaxine and duloxetine are associated with in hospital morbidity but not bleeding or late mortality after coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Heart, Lung & Circulation.  21(4):206-14, 2012 Apr.

14. Prabhu A, Tully PJ, Bennetts JS, Tuble SC, Baker RA.   The morbidity and mortality outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples after isolated coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Heart, Lung & Circulation.  22(8):599-605, 2013 Aug.

15. Use of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in the Management of a Distal Tracheal Haemangioma.  R. A. Lewicki, A Morley, J Bennetts, K. Farrar, W.Y.C Cheng. (under submission – Anaesthesia and Intensive Care)

16. Walters DL. Sinhal A. Baron D. Pasupati S. Thambar S. Yong G. Jepson N. Bhindi R. Bennetts J. Larbalestier R. Clarke A. Brady P. Wolfenden H. James A. El Gamel A. Jansz P. Chew DP. SOURCE ANZ investigators.  Initial experience with the balloon expandable Edwards-SAPIEN Transcatheter Heart Valve in Australia and New Zealand: The SOURCE ANZ registry: Outcomes at 30days and one year. International Journal of Cardiology. 170(3):406-12, 2014 Jan 1.

17. Prakash R, Crouch G, Joseph M, Bennetts J, Selvanayagam J, Sinhal A.  Very Late Ventricular Displacement of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Resulting in Severe Paravalvular Regurgitation. J Am Coll Cardiol Intv. (To be published Feb 2014).

18. Crouch G, Bennetts J, Sinhal A, Tully PJ, Leong DP, Bradbrook C, Penhall A, De Pasquale CG, Chakrabarty A, Baker RA, Selvanayagam J.  Early effects of transcatheter aortic valve implantation and aortic valve replacement on myocardial function, injury and aortic valve hemodynamics: insights from Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance.  American Heart Journal (accepted for publication).

19. Prakash R, Perry R, Lehman SJ, Joseph M, Cheng W, Puckridge P, Bennetts J, Chew DP, Sinhal A.  Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) for Aortic Stenosis. Can randomized controlled trial results (RCT) be reproduced by a  single centre ? An Australian tertiary centre perspective.  International Journal of Cardiology (under submission).

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