Dr Ivor Gerber

Dr Ivor Gerber graduated MBChB from the University of Cape Town in 1992 and completed his training in Cardiology at Green Lane Hospital in 2000. He obtained a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree for his thesis on neurohormones and inflammatory markers in valvular heart disease which was completed during a Cardiovascular Research Fellowship at Green Lane Hospital. He subsequently spent 18 months at the University of California San Francisco for a Fellowship in echocardiography and adult congenital heart disease. He returned to Auckland in 2004 where he has worked as a Consultant Cardiologist at The Heart Group and Auckland City Hospital where he was the Director of Adult Echocardiography for 10 years.

Ivor has broad clinical cardiology expertise, has published numerous original research papers, reviewed articles and book chapters on a range of topics and has been an invited speaker at national and international cardiology meetings. His main areas of expertise include the evaluation and management of coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular heart disease, adult congenital heart disease, cardio-oncology and all aspects of general preventative cardiology including the evaluation and management of hypertension and lipid disorders.