After 10 years of being a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist, my passion remains the same: partnering with every patient to achieve the very best outcome for their health and wellbeing. Seeing patients respond immediately to treatment, and living the best life they can, is what keeps me going in my role as caregiver, advocate, teacher and also lifelong student.

Practices:
Northern Private Hospital

Address:
230 Cooper St
Epping VIC 3076

Call:
03 9112 3969

Fax:
03 9112 3962

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Services:
Cardiology

Profile

Chris Lim has trained in all aspects of cardiology with an interest in PCI (percutaneous coronary intervention), angioplasty and stenting. He completed his training in Melbourne and then completed a further three-year post-graduate training fellowship in Oxford, United Kingdom.

Chris is one of the Melbourne pioneers of radial artery access procedures - using the wrist artery instead of the femoral artery in the groin - which offers superior patient comfort and procedure safety.

He has an ongoing interest in research and has authored multiple publications in international peer-reviewed journals, stemming from his interests in periprocedural myocardial injury and the latest interventional techniques. Chris is also active in teaching and educating junior cardiologists, as part of his tertiary teaching hospital appointments, and Supervisor for the Cardiology Resident training programme at Epworth Eastern Hospital.

Interests

• Radial artery access for superior patient comfort and safety. • Use of the latest evidence-based technology:: • OCT (Optical Coherence Tomography) to assess underlying disease process and severity • Pressure Wire Study for FFR (Fractional Flow Reserve) to determine the functional significance of coronary stenoses, thus avoiding unnecessary angioplasty and stents.