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.
Chris Lim is a cardiologist who has trained in all aspects of cardiology and is a specialist in Interventional Cardiology, 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.
He 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 peri-procedural myocardial injury and the latest interventional techniques.
He is also active in teaching and educating junior cardiologists, as part of his tertiary teaching hospital appointments, and also being the Supervisor of the Cardiology Resident training programme at Epworth Eastern Hospital.
Qualifications
Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (University of Melbourne) 2000
Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (Cardiology) 2008
Postgraduate Interventional Cardiology Fellowship, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2010
Special 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.