Mark Pitney graduated from UNSW with honours is 1984. After completing his training in Cardiology he was one of the first people in Australia to complete a fellowship in Interventional Cardiology. Since that time he has remained a high volume angioplasty operator and has been a faculty member of numerous national and International meetings. He has a keen interest in new stent designs and devices. He is the cofounder and chairman of the organizing C'tee for Australia’s largest annual meeting on avoidance and management of complications in the Cardiac Catheter Theatres. He is currently the Head of Department at Sutherland Hospital, Clinical Director of Sutherland Heart Clinic, Chairman of the Medical Advisory C'tee of Sutherland & Eastern Heart Clinics and Staff Specialist at Prince of Wales