Cardiologist
MBBS(Melb), BMedSci, FRACP, PhD, FCSANZ
A/Prof Gautam Vaddadi is the Director of Cardiac Services at Cabrini Health having commenced this exciting role in 2017. He is also the Head of Heart Failure Services at Northern Health, one of Victoria's busiest public teaching hospitals (University of Melbourne Clinical School). He is a general adult cardiologist with expertise in a broad range of non-invasive cardiology. He graduated in medicine from the University of Melbourne in 1999 and was also awarded a Bachelor of Medical Science for research at the Baker Heart Research Institute. He completed basic physician training at Austin Health in 2003 and undertook advanced training in cardiology, heart failure and transplantation at The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne from 2004 to 2006. He then undertook further postgraduate studies (Monash University) investigating the mechanisms of syncope (low blood pressure and fainting) from 2006 to 2009. This work resulted in several high profile peer reviewed research publications in leading cardiovascular journals. A/Prof Vaddadi was awarded the Ralph Reader Prize by the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand in 2008 for his research investigating syncope. Northern health is the largest centre for heart failure of any single Victorian hospital. Gautam has been instrumental in building a comprehensive heart failure program from the ground up at The Northern Hospital. He has received grants from the Department of Health (Victoria) culminating in the establishment of a heart failure inpatient unit under cardiology at Northern Health in 2019. Gautam continues to lead the development of this program with a focus on delivering patient centred holistic care.