Dr Hendrik Zimmet
Speciality
Subspeciality
- Cardiology
- General cardiology, Heart failure
Areas of interest
About
Hendrik is a Cardiologist with a special interest in heart failure management. Hendrik graduated from the University of Melbourne, undertook physician training at Royal Melbourne Hospital, and then advanced training in General Medicine at the Alfred, followed by Cardiology advanced training at Epworth Richmond and Flinders Medical Centre. In 2011, Hendrik did Fellowship training in Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology at The Alfred.
Hendrik's clinical interests include management of refractory heart failure; acute decompensated heart failure; the role of device therapy in heart failure treatment; use of inotropic support in specific heart failure settings; pulmonary hypertension; and cardiac amyloidosis.
He is currently accepting referrals for new patients who require either inpatient or outpatient management, and offers telehealth consultations for regional patients.
Hendrik is part of the Epworth Internal Medicine Clinical Institute Executive.
Consulting locations
Consulting Location
Epworth Richmond
Consulting Location
Ballarat Cardiology
Epworth locations
Qualifications
- MBBS University of Melbourne 1995
- FRACP (Cardiology) 2005
- Fellowship - Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology, Alfred Hospital
Education and training
- Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Monash University
- Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne
Research
- Use of stem cell therapy in heart failure
- Heart Failure Clinical Trials
- Heart Failure Epidemiology
- Novel Heart Failure Therapies
Professional Associations
- Royal Australiasian College of Physicians (RACP)
- Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ)
- Australian Medical Association (AMA)
- Pulmonary Hypertension Society of Australia and New Zealand (PHSANZ)
- Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology
- Australian Clinical Trials Alliance
- Australian Amyloidosis Network