Dr Giuseppe Femia is an Australian trained compassionate interventional and cardiac device cardiologist dedicated to providing exceptional patient-centred care using cutting-edge techniques.
Dr Femia graduated from the University of Sydney Medical School with Honours before completing cardiology training at Wollongong and Liverpool Hospitals. He then completed three further years of sub-speciality fellowship training at Liverpool Hospital in interventional cardiology and cardiac device implantation.
Additionally, he has completed level III Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) fellowship at Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Sydney.
Current Positions
Dr Femia has admitting rights at Sydney South West Private Hospital and Macquarie University Hospital.
Areas of Expertise
- Chest pain and shortness of breath
- Heart attacks and coronary artery disease
- Coronary angiography, coronary imaging and complex coronary intervention (stents)
- Heart rhythm abnormalities (dizziness and palpitations)
- Cardiac device implantation (pacemakers and defibrillators)
- Cardiomyopathies/heart failure
- Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging
Research Contributions
Dr Femia is passionate about research and teaching, with significant academic contributions and peer reviewed publications. He completed his PhD in Cardiovascular Medicine from the University of Sydney examining novels techniques to investigate conditions associated with sudden cardiac death and a postdoctoral research fellow mentored by world-renowned experts in cardiac magnetic resonance.
He is a conjoint lecturer and PhD supervisor at The University of Sydney, University of New South Wales and Western Sydney University.
30. Urological manifestations of obstructive sleep apnoea and their clinical utility in screening. Hubert M, Yao J, Femia G. Aust J Gen Pract 2023.
29. Exploration of Cardiology Patient Hospital Presentations, Health Care Utilisation and Cardiovascular Risk Factors During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Cho K, Femia G, Lee R, Nageswararajah D, Doulatram H, Kadappu K, Juergens C
Heart Lung Circulation 2023 28. Safety, Feasibility and Economic Analysis of Same Day Discharge Following Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
Hyasat K, Femia G, Alzuhairi K, Ha A, Kamand J, Hasche E, Rajaratnam R, Lo S,Almagragy H, Liou K, Chiha J, Asrress K
Clinical Medical Insights Cardiology 2022 27. Ulcerative colitis and acute perimyocarditis.
Cho KK, Ko Y, Nilsen K, Verdon C, Femia G
Medical Journal of Australia 2022 26. Role of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in troponinemia syndrome.
Nguyen N, Assad J, Femia G, Schuster A, Otton J, Nguyen T
World Journal of Cardiology 2022 25. Takotsubo Syndrome: A review of presentation, diagnosis and management
Assad J, Femia G, Pender P, Badie T, Rajaratnam R
Clinical Medicine Insights: Cardiology 2022 24. Right Ventricular Myocardial Infarction: pathophysiology, clinical implications and management
Femia G, French JK, Juergens C, Leung D, Lo S
Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine 2022 23. Crop circles in optical coherence tomography
Femia G, Rajaratnam R, Taylor D, Lo S
Journal of Invasive Cardiology 2021 22.Post-mortem Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Parameters in Normal and Diseased Conditions
Femia G, Langlois N, Raleigh J, Perumal S, Semsarian C, Puranik R
Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy 2021 21.Comparing Conventional Autopsy to Post Mortem MR and CT in Determining the Cause Unexpected Death.
Femia G, Langlois N, Raleigh J, Gray B, Othman F, Perumal S, Semsarian C, Puranik R.
Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology December 2020 20. Left Ventricular Non-Compaction: Review of the Current Diagnostic Challenges and Consequences in Athletes.
Femia G, Semsarian C, Ross SB, Celermajer D, Puranik R
Medicina 2020 19.Long Term Clinical Outcomes Associated with CMR Quantified
Left Ventricular Noncompaction in Adults
Femia G, Zhu D, Choudhary P, Ross SB, Muthurangu V, Richmond D, Celermajer D, Semsarian C, Puranik R.
International Journal of Cardiology 2020 18.Comparing the Clinical and Prognostic Impact of Proximal Versus Non-Proximal \
Lesions in Dominant Right Coronary Artery ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction
Femia G, Faour A, Assad J, Sharma L, Idris H, Gibbs O, Pender P, Leung D, Hopkins A, Rajaratnam R, Juergens C, Mussap C, French J, Lo S
Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions 2020. 17.Intra- and inter-observer reproducibility of multilayer cardiac magnetic resonance
feature tracking derived longitudinal and circumferential strain.
Anathapadmanabhan S, Deng E, Femia G, Tang S, Koh ES, Schuster A, Puranik R, Gupta P, Nguyen T, Dimitri H, Otton J.
Cardiovascular Diagnostic Therapeutics 2020; 10(2): 173-182. 16.Long term CMR follow up of patients with right ventricular abnormality and clinically suspected arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
Femia G, Semsarian C, McGuire M, Sy R, Puranik R
Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance December 2019 16. Late clinical outcomes of unselected patients with diabetic mellitus and multi-vessel coronary artery disease
Ebahim M, Dignan R, Femia G, Kim S, Gregory G, Burgess S, Hee L, Mussap C, Aty W, Lo S, Juergens C, French J.
International Journal of Cardiology 1; 296: 21 -25. 15.A Case Report: X-linked Dystrophin Gene Mutation Causing Severe Isolated Dilated Cardiomyopathy.
Lester G, Femia G, Ayer J, Puranik R.
European Heart Journal-Case Reports June 2019 14.Post-mortem Imaging Adjudicated Sudden Death: Causes and Controversies
Femia G, Semsarian C, Langlois N, McGuire M, Raleigh J, Taylor A,
Puranik R
Heart Lung and Circulation September 2018. 13.Relations between right ventricular morphology and clinical, electrical and genetic parameters in Brugada Syndrome.
Gray B, Gnanappa GK, Bagnall RD, Femia G, Yeates L, Ingles J, Burns C, Puranik R, Grieve SM, Semsarian C, Sy RW.
PLoS One April 2018 12.Novel Oral Anticoagulants for Direct Current Cardioversion Procedures
Femia G, Shetty P, Lee A
Heart Lung and Circulation May 2017. 11.Systematic Review: Impact of New Task Force Criteria in the Diagnosis of Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy
Femia G, Sy R, Puranik R.
International Journal of Cardiology March 2017. 10.Impact of New Task Force Criteria in the Diagnosis of Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia/Cardiomyopathy
Femia G, Singarayer R, Sy R, McGuire M, Samserian, Hsu CJ, Puranik R
International Journal of Cardiology February 2014. 9.Steroid Responsive Meningitis and Myelitis in Complicated Mycoplasma pneumoniae Infection
Femia G, Lee HP, Anderson C, Parratt JDE
Journal of Neurology and Neurophysiology 2012. 8.Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome following chemotherapy with oxaliplatin and a fluoropyrimidine: a case report and literature review.
Femia G, Hardy T, Spies J, Horvath L
Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology June 2012. 7.Isolated Reversible Hypoglossal Nerve Palsy as the initial manifestation of Pre-eclampsia
Femia G, Parratt JDE, Halmagyi GM
Journal of Clinical Neuroscience 2012. 6.Smoking Cessation in Pregnancy
Bittoun R, Femia G
Obstetric Medicine 2010. 5.Clathrin-dependent and independent endocytosis of glucose transporter (GLUT4) in myoblasts: regulation by mitochondrial uncoupling
Antonescu CN, Díaz M, Femia G, Planas JV, Klip A
Traffic 2008. 4.Perceptions From a Medical Student: A View From a Medical Student
(Guest Editorial)
Femia G
Journal of Smoking Cessation 2007 3.Type 2 Diabetes in Indigenous and non-Indigenous children and adolescents in New South Wales
Craig ME, Femia G, Broyda V, Lloyd M, Howard NJ
Medical Journal of Australia 2007. 2.Expressing and Targeting of CX3CL1 (fractalkine) in renal tubular epithelial cells
Durkan AM, Alexander RT, Liu GY, Rui M, Femia G, Robinson LA
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2007. 1.Glucosamine-induced endoplasmic reticulum dysfunction is associated with accelerated atherosclerosis in a hyperglycemic mouse model
Werstuck GH, Khan MI, Femia G, Kim A, Tedesco V, Trigatti B, Shi Y
Diabetes January 2006.
Cho K, Femia G, Lee R, Nageswararajah D, Doulatram H, Kadappu K, Juergens C
Heart Lung Circulation 2023 28. Safety, Feasibility and Economic Analysis of Same Day Discharge Following Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
Hyasat K, Femia G, Alzuhairi K, Ha A, Kamand J, Hasche E, Rajaratnam R, Lo S,Almagragy H, Liou K, Chiha J, Asrress K
Clinical Medical Insights Cardiology 2022 27. Ulcerative colitis and acute perimyocarditis.
Cho KK, Ko Y, Nilsen K, Verdon C, Femia G
Medical Journal of Australia 2022 26. Role of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in troponinemia syndrome.
Nguyen N, Assad J, Femia G, Schuster A, Otton J, Nguyen T
World Journal of Cardiology 2022 25. Takotsubo Syndrome: A review of presentation, diagnosis and management
Assad J, Femia G, Pender P, Badie T, Rajaratnam R
Clinical Medicine Insights: Cardiology 2022 24. Right Ventricular Myocardial Infarction: pathophysiology, clinical implications and management
Femia G, French JK, Juergens C, Leung D, Lo S
Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine 2022 23. Crop circles in optical coherence tomography
Femia G, Rajaratnam R, Taylor D, Lo S
Journal of Invasive Cardiology 2021 22.Post-mortem Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Parameters in Normal and Diseased Conditions
Femia G, Langlois N, Raleigh J, Perumal S, Semsarian C, Puranik R
Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy 2021 21.Comparing Conventional Autopsy to Post Mortem MR and CT in Determining the Cause Unexpected Death.
Femia G, Langlois N, Raleigh J, Gray B, Othman F, Perumal S, Semsarian C, Puranik R.
Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology December 2020 20. Left Ventricular Non-Compaction: Review of the Current Diagnostic Challenges and Consequences in Athletes.
Femia G, Semsarian C, Ross SB, Celermajer D, Puranik R
Medicina 2020 19.Long Term Clinical Outcomes Associated with CMR Quantified
Left Ventricular Noncompaction in Adults
Femia G, Zhu D, Choudhary P, Ross SB, Muthurangu V, Richmond D, Celermajer D, Semsarian C, Puranik R.
International Journal of Cardiology 2020 18.Comparing the Clinical and Prognostic Impact of Proximal Versus Non-Proximal \
Lesions in Dominant Right Coronary Artery ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction
Femia G, Faour A, Assad J, Sharma L, Idris H, Gibbs O, Pender P, Leung D, Hopkins A, Rajaratnam R, Juergens C, Mussap C, French J, Lo S
Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions 2020. 17.Intra- and inter-observer reproducibility of multilayer cardiac magnetic resonance
feature tracking derived longitudinal and circumferential strain.
Anathapadmanabhan S, Deng E, Femia G, Tang S, Koh ES, Schuster A, Puranik R, Gupta P, Nguyen T, Dimitri H, Otton J.
Cardiovascular Diagnostic Therapeutics 2020; 10(2): 173-182. 16.Long term CMR follow up of patients with right ventricular abnormality and clinically suspected arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
Femia G, Semsarian C, McGuire M, Sy R, Puranik R
Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance December 2019 16. Late clinical outcomes of unselected patients with diabetic mellitus and multi-vessel coronary artery disease
Ebahim M, Dignan R, Femia G, Kim S, Gregory G, Burgess S, Hee L, Mussap C, Aty W, Lo S, Juergens C, French J.
International Journal of Cardiology 1; 296: 21 -25. 15.A Case Report: X-linked Dystrophin Gene Mutation Causing Severe Isolated Dilated Cardiomyopathy.
Lester G, Femia G, Ayer J, Puranik R.
European Heart Journal-Case Reports June 2019 14.Post-mortem Imaging Adjudicated Sudden Death: Causes and Controversies
Femia G, Semsarian C, Langlois N, McGuire M, Raleigh J, Taylor A,
Puranik R
Heart Lung and Circulation September 2018. 13.Relations between right ventricular morphology and clinical, electrical and genetic parameters in Brugada Syndrome.
Gray B, Gnanappa GK, Bagnall RD, Femia G, Yeates L, Ingles J, Burns C, Puranik R, Grieve SM, Semsarian C, Sy RW.
PLoS One April 2018 12.Novel Oral Anticoagulants for Direct Current Cardioversion Procedures
Femia G, Shetty P, Lee A
Heart Lung and Circulation May 2017. 11.Systematic Review: Impact of New Task Force Criteria in the Diagnosis of Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy
Femia G, Sy R, Puranik R.
International Journal of Cardiology March 2017. 10.Impact of New Task Force Criteria in the Diagnosis of Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia/Cardiomyopathy
Femia G, Singarayer R, Sy R, McGuire M, Samserian, Hsu CJ, Puranik R
International Journal of Cardiology February 2014. 9.Steroid Responsive Meningitis and Myelitis in Complicated Mycoplasma pneumoniae Infection
Femia G, Lee HP, Anderson C, Parratt JDE
Journal of Neurology and Neurophysiology 2012. 8.Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome following chemotherapy with oxaliplatin and a fluoropyrimidine: a case report and literature review.
Femia G, Hardy T, Spies J, Horvath L
Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology June 2012. 7.Isolated Reversible Hypoglossal Nerve Palsy as the initial manifestation of Pre-eclampsia
Femia G, Parratt JDE, Halmagyi GM
Journal of Clinical Neuroscience 2012. 6.Smoking Cessation in Pregnancy
Bittoun R, Femia G
Obstetric Medicine 2010. 5.Clathrin-dependent and independent endocytosis of glucose transporter (GLUT4) in myoblasts: regulation by mitochondrial uncoupling
Antonescu CN, Díaz M, Femia G, Planas JV, Klip A
Traffic 2008. 4.Perceptions From a Medical Student: A View From a Medical Student
(Guest Editorial)
Femia G
Journal of Smoking Cessation 2007 3.Type 2 Diabetes in Indigenous and non-Indigenous children and adolescents in New South Wales
Craig ME, Femia G, Broyda V, Lloyd M, Howard NJ
Medical Journal of Australia 2007. 2.Expressing and Targeting of CX3CL1 (fractalkine) in renal tubular epithelial cells
Durkan AM, Alexander RT, Liu GY, Rui M, Femia G, Robinson LA
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2007. 1.Glucosamine-induced endoplasmic reticulum dysfunction is associated with accelerated atherosclerosis in a hyperglycemic mouse model
Werstuck GH, Khan MI, Femia G, Kim A, Tedesco V, Trigatti B, Shi Y
Diabetes January 2006.
