Dr Vijay Kapadia (Cardiologist)
- Name
- Dr Vijay Kapadia
- Qualifications
- FRACP
- MBBS Jiwaji University 1981
- Occupation
- General Physician
- Cardiologist
- Gender
- Male
- Languages Spoken
- Gujarati
- Hindi
- Medical Specialties
- Cardiology
Dr Kapadia completed his cardiology training in Wellington and the Green Lane Hospital in Auckland New Zealand with interventional cardiology training in Victoria, BC, Canada. He has admitting rights at the Allamanda, Pindara and John Flynn Hospitals and is also a Visiting Cardiologist at the Gold Coast Hospital.
He is interested in all aspects of cardiology including clinical cardiology, stress testing, echocardiography, pacemaker implantation, paediatric cardiology, coronary angiography and angioplasty.
Dr Kapadia is actively involved in medical student and registrar teaching. He started the monthly Gold Coast Clinical Cardiology meetings, now in their 12th year.
He has made a special commitment to Fiji where he is helping to setup a national cardiac centre. He also helped to establish a cath lab in Fiji’s major referral hospital in Suva. He is a member of the Sydney Adventist Hospital’s Operation Heart team to Fiji and does the screening of patients with Rheumatic Heart Disease before valvular surgery.
Dr Kapadia provides inpatient and outpatient consultation services weekly at our Southport and Pindara rooms. Inpatients at all three hospitals are visited on a daily basis.
- Hospital Affiliations
- John Flynn Private Hospital
- Gold Coast University Hospital
- Pindara Private Hospital
- Gold Coast Private Hospital
- Affiliated Clinics
- Gold Coast Heart Centre - Benowa
- Gold Coast Heart Centre - Southport
- Affiliated Organisations
- The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP)
- Medical Interventions
- Cardioverter-Defibrillator or Pacemaker Insertion- Removal or Repair
- Echocardiography
- Coronary Angiography
- Angioplasty
Practice Locations
Gold Coast
- Gold Coast Heart Centre - Benowa
- Address
- Suite 209, Level 2
29 Carrara Street
Benowa QLD 4217
Australia
- Phone
- 07 5531 1833
- Fax
- 07 5531 1834
- Gold Coast Heart Centre - Southport
- Address
- Suite 13, Ground Floor
14 Hill Street
Southport QLD 4215
Australia
- Phone
- 07 5531 1833
- Fax
- 07 5531 1834
