Dr Ganesh Kumar Gnanappa is a highly experienced paediatric cardiologist and Head of Cardiac Imaging at Sydney Children’s Hospital Network, with specialised expertise in congenital heart disease and advanced multimodality cardiac imaging. He currently works across The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick, providing comprehensive cardiac care for infants, children, adolescents, and adults with congenital heart disease.

Dr Gnanappa completed his paediatric and paediatric cardiology training in India before undertaking advanced fellowship training in Australia and Canada. He completed advanced imaging fellowships in paediatric echocardiography, cardiac MRI, and cardiac CT at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Specialist MRI Sydney, and Stollery Children’s Hospital, Edmonton, Canada.

He holds Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP), Fellowship of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (FCSANZ), and Fellowship of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (FSCMR). He also holds international accreditation in congenital heart disease echocardiography (European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging) and Level III accreditation in cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (USA).

As Head of Cardiac Imaging, Dr Gnanappa leads advanced cardiac imaging services with a strong focus on imaging quality, education, multidisciplinary collaboration, and innovation in congenital cardiac imaging. He has extensive expertise in transthoracic echocardiography, transoesophageal echocardiography, fetal echocardiography, 3D echocardiography, cardiac MRI, and cardiac CT imaging.

His clinical interests include congenital and acquired heart disease, cardiomyopathy, pulmonary hypertension, cardiac function assessment, multimodality imaging for surgical planning, and longitudinal follow-up of complex congenital cardiac conditions.

Dr Gnanappa is also actively involved in teaching, mentoring, and research. He contributes to the training of cardiology fellows, sonographers, and intensive care clinicians and has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications and international conference presentations in paediatric cardiology and cardiac imaging.

Services Offered

• Paediatric Cardiology Consultation
  Comprehensive assessment and management of infants, children, and adolescents with suspected or established cardiac conditions, including heart murmurs, chest pain, palpitations, syncope, hypertension, and congenital or acquired heart disease.
• Advanced Paediatric Echocardiography
  Specialist paediatric transthoracic echocardiography providing detailed structural and functional cardiac assessment for congenital and acquired heart disease using high-resolution imaging and advanced echocardiographic techniques.
• Congenital & Acquired Heart Disease Management
  Diagnosis, longitudinal care, and follow-up of congenital and acquired paediatric cardiac conditions, including coordination of multidisciplinary management with tertiary cardiac centres such as Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick and The Children’s Hospital at Westmead when required.