Dr Chin Lim (Cardiologist)
- Name
- Dr Chin Aun Lim
- Qualifications
- FRACP
- MBBS University of New South Wales 1986
- Occupation
- Cardiologist
- Gender
- Male
- Languages Spoken
- Cantonese
- Hokkien
- Malay
- Medical Specialties
- Cardiology
Dr Chin Lim is a Clinical and Pacing Cardiologist who graduated with Honours from the University of New South Wales. Dr Lim went on to complete his specialty training in Cardiology at the St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney.
At St Vincent’s, Dr Lim had the opportunity to work alongside the late Dr Victor Chang and his team of heart failure specialists at the National Heart Transplant Centre.
Dr Lim relocated to Cairns in 1993, after completion of his Advanced Cardiology training, to establish the first private Coronary Care Unit in Cairns at the Calvary Hospital.
Dr Lim also worked as the Director of Cardiology at the Cairns Base Hospital until his retirement from public hospital commitments in 2003. Dr Lim established Cairns’ first Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory in 1999 and implanted North Queensland’s first ICD (implantable defibrillator) in 2002.
Dr Lim also has an active interest in clinical and preventative cardiology, management of coronary and structural heart disease as well as device based treatment of arrhythmias and heart failure; implanting and follow up of loop recorders, pacemakers, defibrillators and cardiac resynchronisation devices.
- Hospital Affiliations
- Cairns Private Hospital
- Affiliated Clinics
- Cairns Cardiology
- Affiliated Organisations
- The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP)
Practice Locations
Cairns
- Cairns Private Hospital
- Address
- Entrance via Lake Street
197-203 Abbott Street
Cairns QLD 4870
Australia
- Phone
- 07 4052 5230
- Fax
- 07 4052 5327
- Cairns Cardiology
- Address
- Level 2
144 Lake St
Cairns QLD 4870
Australia
- Phone
- 07 4052 5230
- Fax
- 07 4052 5327
