Professor Christopher X Wong is a cardiologist with a clinical and research focus on heart rhythm disorders. After studying medicine at the University of Adelaide, he read for masters degrees in clinical trials and population health at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, before completing a PhD in cardiology. On a later Fulbright Scholarship, he attended Harvard University for a masters in epidemiology, and then completed a clinical and research fellowship in electrophysiology at the University of California San Francisco, where catheter ablation was first developed and undertaken in humans. In 2023, he returned to Adelaide to joint positions as a Professor of Cardiology at the University of Adelaide and Consultant Cardiologist at the Royal Adelaide and Queen Elizabeth Hospitals. He has published over 300 peer reviewed publications and is NHMRC Investigator Fellow. He clinically specialises in complex ablations and device implantations across the spectrum of cardiac arrhythmias.
