Belinda Gray

Associate Professor Belinda Gray is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney, serving as a Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellow at the Central Clinical School. She holds qualifications of MBBS, BSc(Med), PhD, FRACP, FCSANZ, and FHRS, having completed her PhD in Genetic Heart Disease and Sudden Cardiac Death at the University of Sydney with Heart Foundation funding. She undertook cardiology training at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in Inherited Cardiac Conditions and Sports Cardiology at St George’s University of London. In clinical practice, she is a Consultant Cardiologist and Director of Sports Cardiology at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, consulting in the Genetic Heart Disease Program, with expertise in general cardiology, sports cardiology, genetic heart disease, cardiac disease in women, and cardiac imaging. She performs stress echocardiography, transoesophageal echocardiography, and holds Level 3 certification in cardiac MRI reporting.

Her research centers on the genetics, risk stratification, and prevention of sudden cardiac death in young people and athletes, including inherited cardiomyopathies such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, and dilated cardiomyopathy, as well as channelopathies like Brugada syndrome and long QT syndrome. She investigates ECG patterns in athletes, genetic testing utility, and exercise safety in genetic heart conditions. Key publications include "Sudden death and left ventricular involvement in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy" (2019), "Vigorous Exercise in Patients With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy" (2023), "The Diagnostic Yield of Brugada Syndrome After Sudden Death With Normal Autopsy" (2018), "Accuracy of the 2017 international recommendations for clinicians who interpret adolescent athletes’ ECGs: a cohort study of 11 168 British white and black soccer players" (2020), and "Natural History of Genotype Positive Phenotype Negative Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy" (2011). Gray chairs the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand Genetic Council, co-founded its Sports Cardiology Working Group, and lectures in the Masters of Sports Cardiology at St George’s University of London. She has secured funding through NHMRC Early Career Fellowship and University of Sydney Cardiovascular Initiative Catalyst Grant, and presented the Ralph Reader Prize at CSANZ.

Professional Email: belinda.gray@sydney.edu.au