A/Prof. Christopher Heath
| Profession | Infectious Diseases Physician and Clinical Microbiologist |
| Job Title | Head of Department, Royal Perth Hospital |
| Organisation Name | Royal Perth Hospital, and Fiona Stanley Hospital; and PathWest Fiona Stanley Hospital Network, Laboratory Medicine |
| Areas of Special Interest | Hansen’s disease (leprosy): rare disease in WA and disease expression highly dependent on host genetics |
| Adults or Children | Adults |
| Clinic Services | Multi-disciplinary outpatient clinic, Hansen's disease (leprosy) Clinical diagnosis and treatment of leprosy, tuberculosis (TB), and other mycobacterial diseases Other services offered: Public health management (eg. contact tracing) in indigenous populations, Kimberley Regional Public Health Services |
| Clinic Contact details | Anita Clayton Centre, Wellington Street, Perth WA |
| Telehealth consults | Available |
| Telehealth Information | Via Royal Perth Hospital |
| Transitional Planning – Paediatric to adult services | Available |
| Transitional Planning Information | We do care for a few paediatric patients, but mostly adult patient case-mix |
| Additional Information | Host genetics of leprosy are poorly defined in indigenous populations in Australia. Also risks of dapsone hypersensitivity syndrome is likely to be increased in indigenous populations (eg., via the reported high gene frequency of the HLA-B13*03 gene allele), but this remains unexplored in the Australian indigenous context, in regional WA. |
A/Prof. Christopher Heath
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