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ACRA Webinar - Moving Hearts: Physical Activity and Social Connectedness Beyond Cardiac Rehab
2025-06-19 16:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Zoom Videoconference, Australia
Join us in June to hear about an update on the Heart Foundation Walking Program:
“Moving Hearts: Physical Activity and Social Connectedness: Beyond Cariac Rehab”
Date: Thursday 19th June
Time: 4 – 5pm (AEST)
The Heart Foundation remains committed to reducing heart disease and improving the heart health and quality of life of all Australians through our work in risk reduction, support and care, and research. We are committed to supporting Australians to be more active for positive heart health. Heart Foundation Walking is Australia’s largest free walking network with over 1,300 walking groups. In 2021, we launched our digital Personal Walking Plans in 2021 and have had over 160,000 Australians sign up to date.
Our speakers include –
Elizabeth Calleja
Senior Advisor & Lead for Physical Activity at the National Heart Foundation of Australia
Elizabeth Calleja role functions as support & guidance across the organisation for operations that involve physical activity. This includes advocacy and clinical evidence for the Heart Foundation Walking program, Jump Rope for Heart, MyMarathon and the new partnership with Coastrek as well as our work in Primary and Secondary Care.
Abhai Dhillon
Senior Health Professional Engagement Officer – National Heart Foundation of Australia
Abhai Dhillon leads Health Professional Engagement for the Heart Foundation Walking Program. With over a decade of experience across government, NGOs, and the primary care sector, Abhai works at the intersection of policy, service design, and digital health. He currently focuses on integrating walking into preventive care pathways in collaboration with PHNs, GPs, Nurses, and allied health professionals across Australia.

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ACRA SA/NT 2025 AGM and Dinner
2025-06-26 18:00 - 20:00 (Australia/Adelaide) | Lenzerheide Restaurant or online via Zoom, 146 Belair Rd, Hawthorn, South Australia, 5062, Australia
Australian Cardiovascular Health & Rehabilitation Association SA/NT 2025 AGM and Dinner
Date: Thursday 26th June 2025
Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm ACST
Venue: Lenzerheide Restaurant and online via Zoom
Updates on Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD)
Professor Peter Psaltis, Director – Heart and Vascular Health at
SAHMRI, Interventional cardiologist Central Adelaide Local
Health Network
The AGM will commence at 6:00pm with dinner and presentation to follow
commencing at 7:00pm ACST. Please note the AGM and dinner are open to
members only. Non-members are welcome to join the presentation by virtual
attendance only (commencing at 7:15pm ACST).
Free for ACRA members and $30 for non-members to join
virtually
Book now: https://events.humanitix.com/2025-acra-sa-nt-agm-and-dinner
Enquiries: acrasant.secretary@gmail.com

Event kindly sponsored by Novartis

ACRA Webinar - Women are not small men!
2025-07-28 14:00 - 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Zoom Videoconference, Australia
Join us in July to hear from esteemed cardiologist, A/Prof Monique Watts on women’s heart health:
“Women are not small men!”
Date: Monday 28th July
Time: 2 – 3pm (AEST)
Our speaker is –
Associate Professor Monique Watts, a Cardiologist and Heart Failure Specialist at Epworth Freemasons and the Alfred Hospital in Victoria.
After graduating from the University of Melbourne, A/Prof Watts trained at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. She completed Advanced Training in Cardiology with a Fellowship in Heart Failure at the Alfred Hospital, Victoria’s only combined heart failure and cardiac transplantation service.
Monique holds a special interest in women’s heart disease and leads the Women’s Heart Clinic at the Alfred Hospital.
She is actively involved in research and teaching and also has a regional clinic in the Central Victorian town of Charlton.

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Ischaemic heart disease (IHD) in Indian Migrants living in Australia: A mixed methods study
2025-08-20 12:30 - 13:30 (Australia/Perth) | Microsoft Teams
Ischaemic heart disease (IHD) in Indian Migrants living in Australia: A mixed methods study

We invite you to register for the upcoming webinar “Ischaemic heart disease (IHD) in Indian Migrants living in Australia: A mixed methods study“.
Date: Wednesday 20 August 2025
Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm (AWST)
Webinar Details
Rural Health West in conjunction with Heart Foundation, WA Rheumatic Heart Disease Register and the Australian Cardiovascular Health and Rehabilitation Association invite you to this interactive webinar to assist health professionals working in rural areas.
Hosted by:
· Helen McLean – Heart Support Australia, National Program Coordinator and ACRA Education & Training sub-committee
Presented by:
· Kunwar Kaur – PhD candidate at Edith Cowan University
Content:
· Background of IHD in Indian migrants
· Study methodology
· Perceptions about personal risk of IHD
· Barriers and enablers for behaviour change
Registration Details
To submit your registration, please click the button below and submit the registration form.

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– Rural Health West CPD Team

Measurement that moves you: Insights from the ‘Measure It!’ trial
2025-10-21 16:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Event description

Large-scale problems, such as physical inactivity, require scalable solutions. The MRFF funded Measure It! multicentre randomised trial examined whether frequency of physical activity measurement (self-report and step-tracker daily steps), with very brief advice from cardiac rehabilitation clinicians (Measure It!; <5min), influenced physical activity in 190 physically inactive cardiac rehabilitation attendees over 6-months. Here we will share our implementation and effectiveness results, recommending ways that this simple and innovative approach to physical activity promotion within cardiac rehabilitation may be incorporated into your program.
Our speakers:
Professor Nicole Freene
Nicole is a Professor at the University of Canberra. She has been practicing as a physiotherapist for more than 25 years and her research focuses on increasing physical activity levels and decreasing sedentary behaviour in adults, both in healthy and cardiac populations, and physical activity promotion by health professionals.

Jess Seymour
Jess is a Clinical Exercise Physiologist and PhD Candidate at the University of Canberra. Working across the public and community healthcare sectors, she has developed a passion for supporting people with chronic conditions to live active and healthy lives through quality, evidence-based interventions.

The event flyer can be found here.

ACRA VIC/TAS AGM 2025
2025-10-22 16:45 (Australia/Melbourne) | Zoom Videoconference, Australia
Australian Cardiovascular Health & Rehabilitation Association VIC/TAS 2025 AGM
Date: Wednesday 22nd October 2025
Time: 4:45pm AEDT
Venue: Online via Zoom
The AGM will commence at 4.45pm, after presentations by 2 guest speakers commencing 4pm.
Please note that the AGM is open to
financial ACRA VIC/TAS members only. Non-members are welcome to the presentations prior to the AGM.
The meeting papers for the AGM can be found below:

Notice of Meeting and Agenda
ACRA VIC/TAS AGM 2024 Minutes
Proxy Form 2025
Nomination Form 2025

Please find the Zoom link and details below:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81636276751?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 816 3627 6751
Passcode: [REDACTED]
