What is ACOR?

ACOR Ltd is a not-for-profit organisation. It has a small administrative team in Sydney that manages the business side of the organisation. The real work of ACOR is done by highly regarded, widely respected and expert cardiac clinicians and academics who work daily in hospitals, clinics, universities and research units across Australia and New Zealand, and who have devoted their professional lives to improving the quality of life of people with cardiac diseases. They give their time and expertise to ACOR on a voluntary basis.

The need for a registry in any specific area of cardiac health can be initiated by any interested party in any location within Australia and/or New Zealand. They can then approach ACOR Ltd to establish and run a national registry on their behalf, in that specific cardiac health area. Each cardiac registry under ACOR’s national umbrella is managed by a Steering Committee; each Steering Committee is chaired by a prominent clinician with a particular interest and reputation in that specific area of cardiac disease. Steering Committee members are then drawn by invitation from high profile clinical and academic experts in that area. Steering Committees meet regularly; in turn, each Steering Committee Chairperson is required to report to the Board of ACOR Ltd, identifying progress against timelines and budgets, and any potential risks.

The Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implementation (TAVI) Registry was established by ACOR in 2018 and has since been managed by the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) in Adelaide. For the past several years, data from consenting patients undergoing TAVI procedures has been entered into the registry by trained hospital staff, with SAHMRI coordinating data management, analysis, and reporting to support benchmarking, research, and improvements in clinical practice.

The TAVI Registry will formally close on 20 November 2025. From this date, all transcatheter valve procedures will transition to the Australian Transcatheter Valve Therapies (ATVT) Registry, jointly developed by ACOR and SAHMRI. The ATVT Registry has been designed to collect procedural data across all transcatheter cardiac valve interventions in Australia, with the aim of defining, improving, and maintaining the safety and quality of care for patients undergoing these procedures.

For more information on the ACOR ATVT Registry, please navigate to the Registries Tab above.