Jacqui Williamson

Researcher Officer

Qualifications:

Doctor of Philosophy candidate, Menzies & CDU, 2025. Master of Healthcare Leadership, Southern Cross University, 2018. Diploma of Medical Ultrasound (cardiac), Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine, 2002. Bachelor of Science, Monash University, 1996.

Location:

Adelaide

Biography:

Jacqui is a cardiac sonographer with clinical experience in echocardiography and specialises in echocardiographic screening for rheumatic heart disease. She has held appointments as an expert sonographer in the Northern Territory of Australia (2020-present), Tonga (2010-present), South Africa (2017), Timor Leste (2018) and South Australia (2015-2017) where she performed echocardiographic screening in high-risk populations.

Jacqui is an experienced echocardiography teacher, supervisor and mentor. Her role within the NEARER SCAN project involves training and supervision of community health workers to screen for RHD. 

Jacqui is a contributing author of the Australian guideline for the prevention, diagnosis and management of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease. She is a course advisor for a new certificate course in RHD screening to be offered by the Australasian Society of Ultrasound in Medicine and has developed the online modules aimed at training non-experts to screen for RHD. 
 

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Research Themes
  • Rheumatic Heart Disease
  • NEARER SCAN
  • NEARER ECHO
  • RHD AI
  • ACT4-RHD

  1. Francis, J. R., Fairhurst, H., Yan, J., Monteiro, A. F., Lee, A.-M., Maurays, J., . . . Williamson, J. (2023). Abbreviated Echocardiographic Screening for Rheumatic Heart Disease by Non-experts with and without Offsite Expert Review: a Diagnostic Accuracy Study. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography. 

  2. Williamson, J. (2019). Echocardiogram reveals unexpected finding in the investigation of murmur in a hypertensive postpartum patient. Sonography, 6(2), 80-83. 

  3. Williamson, J., McLeod, A., Marangou, J., Remenyi, B., Morris, P., & Whalley, G. (2025). Application of the 2023 World Heart Federation guidelines for the echocardiographic diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease. Australasian Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine. 

  4. Williamson, J., Remenyi, B., Francis, J., Morris, P., & Whalley, G. (2024). Echocardiographic Screening for Rheumatic Heart Disease: A Brief History and Implications for the Future. Heart, Lung and Circulation. 

  5. Williamson, J., Whalley, G., Horton, A., Morris, P., & Remenyi, B. (2024). Elevated trans-mitral pressure gradient predicts surgery in young people with moderate-severe rheumatic mitral regurgitation. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, In submission. 

  6. Williamson, J., Whalley, G., Morris, P., Bruce, D., Cursaro, M., Horton, A., . . . Remenyi, B. (2025). Echocardiographic diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease: Substantial agreement, inter-rater reliability and accuracy between cardiac sonographers and paediatric cardiologists. Heart, Lung & Circulation, In press. 

  7. Williamson, J. M. (2016). Is geographical location a barrier for echo training? An observational account of 10 student cardiac sonographers' pursuit to achieve accreditation. Sonography, 3(4), 142-145. 

  8. Williamson, J. M. (2018). Are senior cardiac sonographers adequately prepared to provide echo training and supervision to students? Survey results from senior cardiac sonographers and echo educators in Victoria, Australia. Sonography, 5(1), 12-19. 

  9. Williamson, J. M., Remenyi, B., Horton, A. E., Morris, P., & Whalley, G. A. (2024). Mitral leaflet separation revisited: a surrogate of mitral valve area in young people with rheumatic mitral regurgitation living in remote areas. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography. doi:10.1016/j.echo.2024.10.005