Dr Waheed Ahmad

Dr Waheed Ahmad is a staff specialist at Princess Alexandra Hospital and a Visiting Medical Officer (VMO) at The Wesley Hospital.

He is a Cardiologist with sub-specialisation in treating abnormal heart rhythms (Cardiac Electrophysiology).

Specialty/Clinical interests
Treatment of abnormal heart rhythms such as ventricular tachycardia (VT); atrial fibrillation (AF), Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT); Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome (WPW); using cardiac catheter ablation.

Implants
Pacemakers; biventricular pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD).

Education and Training
Dr Ahmad’s early medical & cardiology training was at John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, followed by a year of post-graduate cardiac electrophysiology fellowship at Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide.

To gain further expertise in the field of cardiac electrophysiology, He worked for two years alongside experts at the world-renowned institution, The Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA – No 1. Cardiology hospital in USA for 25 years. While there he focused on cardiac catheter ablation of abnormal heart rhythms and cardiac device implantation & extraction.