Our MonashHeart private consulting rooms based at Casey Hospital Melbourne, Dandenong Hospital Melbourne and Suite D Monash Medical Centre Clayton, Melbourne provide specialist cardiology, paediatric cardiology, psychology and cardiothoracic consultative services to patients from the Monash Health and Gippsland areas by cardiologists and cardiac surgeons (heart doctors).
Specialist Cardiologists, Melbourne
| Dr David Adam | Cardiologist – consults at Casey |
| Dr Wally Ahmar | Cardiologist – consults at Dandenong and Casey |
| Dr Marlies Alvarenga | Clinical Psychologist – consults at Dandenong |
| Dr Tim Barton | Cardiologist – consults at Dandenong |
| Dr Logan Bittinger | Cardiologist – consults at Dandenong and Casey |
| Dr Bon Chou | Cardiologist – consults at Dandenong |
| A/Professor Andrew Cochrane AM | Cardiothoracic Surgeon – consults at Dandenong and Casey |
| Dr Benjamin Dundon | Cardiologist – consults at Dandenong and Suite D Clayton |
| Dr Robert Gooley | Cardiologist – consults at Suite D Clayton |
| Dr Stewart Healy | Cardiologist – consults at Dandenong |
| A/Professor Sarah Hope | Paediatric Cardiologist & Adult Congenital Heart Disease – consults at Casey |
| Dr Abdul Rahman Ihdayhid | Cardiologist – consults at Dandenong |
| A/Professor Bruce Jackson | Cardiologist/General Physician/Nephrologist – consults at Casey |
| Mr Prashant Joshi | Cardiothoracic Surgeon – consults at Suite D Clayton |
| A/Professor Brian Ko | Cardiologist – consults at Dandenong, Casey and Suite D Clayton |
| Dr Michael Leung | Cardiologist – consults at Dandenong and Casey |
| Dr Siobhan Lockwood | Cardiologist – consults at Dandenong and Suite D Clayton |
| Dr Yuvaraj Malaiapan | Cardiologist – consults at Dandenong and Casey |
| Dr Liam McCormick | Cardiologist – consults at Suite D Clayton |
| Dr Sam Mirzaee | Cardiologist – consults at Dandenong |
| Dr Stuart Moir | Cardiologist – consults at Dandenong |
| Dr Ravi Kiran Munnur | Cardiologist – consults at Casey |
| A/Professor Arthur Nasis | Cardiologist – consults at Suite D Clayton |
| Dr Om Narayan | Cardiologist – consults at Dandenong |
| Dr Nitesh Nerlekar | Cardiologist – consults at Suite D Clayton |
| Dr James Sapontis | Cardiologist – consults at Suite D Clayton |
| Professor Julian Smith | Cardiothoracic Surgeon – consults at Suite D Clayton |
| Dr Anthony White | Cardiologist – consults at Dandenong |
| A/Professor Dennis Wong | Cardiologist – consults at Casey and Suite D Clayton |
| Dr Sarah Zaman | Cardiologist – consults at Dandenong and Casey |
Appointments
Our Suite D, MonashHeart Clayton, Melbourne private consulting rooms with specialist cardiologists and cardiac surgeons are open Monday to Friday 8.30am – 5.00pm, excluding public holidays
MonashHeart Dandenong Melbourne private consulting rooms with specialist cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, and a clinical psychologist are open Monday to Friday 8.30am – 5.00pm, excluding public holidays.
MonashHeart Casey Melbourne private consulting rooms with specialist cardiologists and cardiac surgeons are open Monday, Wednesday and Friday 8.30am – 5.00pm, excluding public holidays.
Referrals
Our rooms are located at
In order to make an appointment with a heart doctor you need to have a letter of referral from your general practitioner or referring specialist which must be provided at the time of your appointment.
All private consultations require a referral from either a specialist (referral lasts 3 months) or a GP (referral valid for 12 months), and, in order to claim a rebate from Medicare, a up-to-date referral is essential and the patients responsibility.
To see our clinical psychologist patients need a mental care plan.
For enquiries please call 1300 MHEART (1300 643 278) Monday to Friday between 8.30am and 5.00pm.
Interpreters
While we have access to a free telephone interpreting service, we encourage non-English speaking patients to contact us before their appointment so we can confirm a telephone interpreter in readiness for their appointment. Please call us on 1300 MHEART (1300 643 278) to discuss.
A number of our consultants speak languages other than English, including Arabic, Cantonese, Chinese, Hakka, Hokkien, Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Persian (Farsi), Sinhalese and Tamil. Their details can be found by using the search options of the specialist directory.
What to bring
When attending a private consultation it is important that you bring the following with you:
- Letter of referral from your general practitioner or referring specialist
- Medicare / Pension / Veteran Affairs card
- Private health insurance details (if applicable)
- List of current medications
- General practitioner details (name, address, telephone number)
- Relevant scans / x-rays / blood test results
Costs
As these are private consulting rooms there is an ‘out of pocket’ cost after the rebate has been claimed from Medicare ranging between $37.20 to $78.50 ($20 to $35 for pensioners). Further details will be noted on your appointment letter. In order to claim from Medicare, it is essential to ensure that you bring with you a current letter of referral from your general practitioner or referring specialist when seeing your heart specialist.
Subsequent tests and procedures
MonashHeart provides the full range of diagnostic cardiac services for adult and paediatric patients (the majority are bulk billed) including:
- 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG)
- 24 hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (fee applicable)
- Loop event monitoring
- 24 hour Holter monitoring
- Exercise stress testing
- Pacemaker and implantable cardiac device monitoring (fee applicable)
- Pacemaker and implantable cardiac device home monitoring (fee applicable)
- Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE)
- Transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE)
- Exercise stress echocardiography
- Dobutamine echocardiography
- 320-slice cardiac CT (computed tomography) (fee applicable)
You can find detailed information about each test and procedure in our test & procedures page.
