Dr Christopher Kocx

Practices

Profile

Dr Christopher Kocx is a cardiologist and cardiac imaging fellow with subspecialty interests in multimodality cardiac imaging, right-heart physiology, pulmonary hypertension and heart failure. He completed his MBBS at Western Sydney University in 2018 and a Masters of Public Health at the University of Sydney in 2023, and is undertaking a PhD at the University of Sydney examining right heart responses to loading and strain through advanced cardiac imaging.

His clinical training has included Residency, Basic Physician Training and Advanced Training in Cardiology at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPA). He was awarded FRACP in Cardiology in 2025. He is a Clinical Lecturer in Medicine at the University of Sydney and an Editorial Fellow for Heart, Lung and Circulation. His accreditations include Australian Echocardiography, CT and Cardiac MRI, as well as European (EACVI) transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography and US (NBE/ASE) Board of Echocardiography certification, and he is a Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography.

Research

Dr Kocx's research interests focus on right-heart adaptation and failure, particularly in pulmonary hypertension, heart failure and valvular heart disease. His PhD examines right ventricular and right atrial adaptive and maladaptive responses to loading and strain, integrating multimodality cardiac imaging, invasive haemodynamics and molecular analyses. His current work includes cohort studies of right-heart mechanics and clinical outcomes in pulmonary hypertension and tricuspid regurgitation, alongside systematic reviews and meta-analyses of right ventricular-pulmonary arterial coupling, right atrial function and right-heart diastology. More broadly, he is interested in advanced echocardiography, cardiac MRI and CT, pulmonary vascular disease, heart failure phenotyping and the translation of imaging biomarkers into clinically useful risk stratification and decision-making tools.

Hospitals