Professor Girish Dwivedi

Clinical Advisor for Cardiovascular Diseases

Professor Dwivedi is the inaugural Wesfarmers Chair in Cardiology at the University of Western Australia (Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research) and a Consultant Cardiologist at Fiona Stanley Hospital, where he also serves as Clinical Lead for Innovation. Before joining in 2017, he was a Clinician Scientist and Consultant Cardiologist at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Canada.

With a unique background in Level 3 multimodality cardiac imaging, Professor Dwivedi holds accreditations in Cardiac CT, Echocardiography, Cardiac MRI, and Nuclear Cardiology (including PET) from leading international boards.

He completed his PhD (2010) at the University of Manchester (UK) in non-invasive cardiac imaging, focusing on myocardial contrast echocardiography and radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging in acute myocardial infarction. His research has contributed to understanding left bundle branch block’s impact on SPECT imaging and its implications for diagnosing coronary artery disease, with findings published in JACC and Circulation.