Dr Richard Lim (Cardiologist)
- Name
- Dr Richard Ying Yong Lim
- Qualifications
- Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom United Kingdom 1987
- Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery University of Newcastle Upon Tyne United Kingdom 1984
- Occupation
- Cardiologist
- Gender
- Male
Interventional Cardiologist at The Princess Alexandra Hospital Brisbane since July 1997 and Associate Professor of Medicine at The University of Queensland, commences private practice as a founding partner at Brisbane Heart in September 2014.
He graduated 1984 from The University of Newcastle upon Tyne UK and undertook cardiology specialist training at St Bartholomew’s Hospital London (1989–94) where he also completed his research doctorate on prognostic assessment of coronary artery disease by nuclear cardiology and MPhil research thesis on outcomes of patients awaiting revascularisation.
After advanced sub-specialty experience leading to his Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training (UK) at the Royal Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals (1994-96), he enjoyed a sabbatical year concentrating on IVUS, pressure wire and atherectomy procedures as Post-Doctoral Interventional Fellow at the University of Maryland Hospital in Baltimore USA. More recent sabbaticals were spent in Adult Congenital Heart Disease at Great Ormond St and University College Hospitals London.
Richard performed the first PCI at the PA Hospital in September 1998, maintains a research focus on prognosis in CAD and quality improvement in PCI and upholds the group’s holistic approach to preventive, pre-emptive and palliative cardiology.
- Hospital Affiliations
- Princess Alexandra Hospital
- Affiliated Clinics
- Brisbane Heart
Practice Locations
Brisbane
- Brisbane Heart
- Address
- PACE Building
Level 4
20 Cornwall Street
Woolloongabba QLD 4102
Australia
- Phone
- 07 3346 1122
- Fax
- 07 3346 1146
