MBBS (hons), FRACP (Cardiology)
Dr Rob Harvey is an Interventional Cardiologist specialising in complex percutaneous intervention with an interest in left main, bifurcation and chronic total occlusion coronary treatment.
Originating in Queensland, he completed medical school, receiving gold medals for highest academic achievement in class and dux of graduating year. He then went onto Physician and Cardiology specialty training at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane.
After completing his general cardiology training, he partook in an interventional cardiology fellowship at The Princess Alexandra Hospital and then moved to British Columbia, Canada to complete a two-year complex coronary intervention fellowship at the Royal Jubilee Hospital on Vancouver Island. During this time, he was an integral part of facilitating local and international research trials at the Victoria Heart Institute Foundation.
His commitment to performing high level quality coronary stenting is driven by both the importance of long-term revascularisation durability as well as improvement of patient’s symptoms – getting people back to enjoying their lives.
As well as the treatment for established coronary disease, he has a passion for primary prevention. From the basics of education on healthy lifestyle, to the up-to=date, cutting-edge medical preventative management strategies. His clinical capabilities also include medical management of arrhythmias, hypertension, lipid disorders, valvular heart disease, cardiomyopathies and heart failure and reporting of CT Coronary Angiography.
He has a strong belief in an individualised, patient based approach with an emphasis on the importance of good communication both from doctor to patient, as well as doctor to doctor in continued holistic care.
Dr Harvey also has an interest in continued education. He was an associate lecturer at the University of Queensland and clinical teacher for examination candidate physician registrars. He is developing involvement in clinical teaching for medical students and training doctors in Perth, as well as presenting the latest data arising in general and interventional cardiology at information events and meetings.
