Heart failure training courses for clinicians
Exercise Training for Cardiac Conditions:
Location: Education Centre, Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital (& Online)
Date: 12th November, 2026
Time: 8.20 - 3.30 pm / 9.20 - 16.30 (NSW, VIC, TAS)/ 6.20 (WA)
CPD Points: 6 points for the day
Registrations now open via Humanitix
The course aims to help professionals:
This course will assist participants in applying principals of exercise training to complex cardiac cases and how to prescribe exercise for a variety of conditions.
Provisional Program
- Demographics for CR and Heart Failure in Qld: registry data
- Exercise for cardiac conditions: theory and practice overview
- Cardio-Metabolic syndromes and exercise considerations
- Heat intolerance and cardiac conditions
- Exercise considerations for patients with dysautonomia
- Pulmonary Hypertension, heart failure and exercise research
- Cardiac rehabilitation participation among First Nations patients in QLD: registry data
- CR rehabilitation in women
- Ventricular Assistive Devices as destination therapy
- Cardiomyopathies (myocarditis, pericarditis and cardiac sarcoid and amyloid): implications for exercise
- Cases discussion with panel
Speakers
- Dr Julie Adsett, Advanced Physiotherapist1
- Mr William Beningfield. Physiotherapist1
- Prof Norm Morris, Physiotherapist and Exercise Physiologist researcher,2,3
- Dr Fergus O’Connor, Exercise Scientist3
- Ms Olivia Powrie, Exercise physiologist4
- Ms Helen Seale, Physiotherapist Clinical Consultant2
- Dr Emma Thomas Centre for Health Services Research 5
- Dr Nicholas Sowden, Cardiologist6
Affiliations
1.Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, 2. The Prince Charles Hospital, 3. Griffith University, 4. West Moreton Hospital and Health Service, 5. University of Qld, 6. QEII Hospital
Enquiries
Please phone (07) 3139 6910 or email qldheartfailure@health.qld.gov.au.