Dr Viswanathan Venkatachalam

Dr Venkatachalam is an interventional cardiologist with twenty years of experience in Australia, Canada and India. Following cardiology training in 2001, Dr Venkatachalam went on to specialise in Interventional Cardiology. He completed interventional fellowships at Townsville Hospital, Westmead Hospital and QEII Hospital in Halifax, Canada.

Dr Venkatachalam has extensive interventional skills in performing Coronary Angiogram and Angioplasty procedures utilising both the femoral and radial (arm) approaches. He performs complex coronary interventions involving Rotablation, Intra-vascular Ultrasound, Pressure Wire Study (FFR), Transoesophageal Echocardiogram and Cardioversion. He also does Pacemaker/Loop recorder checks, Echocardiogram, Stress Echocardiogram, Dobutamine stress Echocardiogram (For patients who cannot walk on the treadmill), 24 hours Ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) and Holter.