Our Heart Failure Specialists are here to assist you in relieving your symptoms and living well with heart failure, providing the best-in-class care and ongoing support to ensure you can live a better and healthier life.
At Perth Cardiovascular Institute, we have made your treatment plan simple and clear. Through personalised communication and support we’ll make it clear where you’re at, where you need to be, and how to get there. Step by step, we’re by your side guiding you through. We focus on your individual needs by:
Your GP can refer you to our Heart Failure Clinic by completing the online Referral Form.
Our specialist team will help you get the most out of your heart failure treatment. Your cardiologist will provide you with a personalised treatment plan created specifically to manage your heart failure.
Educational materials
As well as answering any questions you may have, we’ll make sure you’re kept informed with everything you need to know about your condition with our heart failure educational materials.
We believe in a co-management approach to heart failure care. By keeping in close contact with your GP and other healthcare professionals involved in your care, we can make sure everyone is on the same page and knows the best way to manage your condition.
Co-medical management
We work closely with GPs, specialists and allied health professionals to determine who needs to be involved at each stage of care.
Heart Failure Clinic is a specialised service designed to support you and your patient. We provide a clear pathway and continuous support to achieve the best possible clinical outcomes.
At Perth Cardiovascular Institute, we have created a clear pathway of care for you and your patients. We’re making the pathway as easy to follow as possible and guiding patients through to better health. Along the way we keep healthcare professionals, carers and yourself informed of progress.
Our heart failure clinic supports referring GPs at the earliest stages of disease identification and enables close collaboration with heart failure specialists during the patient’s diagnosis, treatment and management.
With our personal support program, management of patients has been designed specifically for improving heart failure outcomes. Patients receive a personalised plan that enables continuous management and ensures medical compliance through regular monitoring, phone contact and face-to-face consultations with their health team and a dedicated patient counsellor.
Patient education
Additionally, patients are provided with a comprehensive suite of educational materials, helping to better prepare them for living with heart failure and achieving their treatment goals.
Co-medical management
We work closely with GPs, specialists and allied health professionals to determine who needs to be involved at each stage of care.
Symptom monitoring and alerts
We track your patient’s condition and alert the relevant treating physicians when symptoms change.
Detailed clinical reports
We provide regular, comprehensive reports on the patient’s clinical status to the co-management team.
As leaders in cardiology, our doctors have extensive experience in the management and treatment of heart failure. Many have been involved in national and international research, cutting edge procedures and techniques, and are pioneers in their chosen subspecialties.
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MB BS (UWA) FRACP
Dr Matthew Best has been a consultant since 2005. He is an expert in general cardiology, heart failure/cardiomyopathy, advanced heart failure and pulmonary hypertension. His field of expertise is heart failure and the management of patients with advanced heart failure – including those needing cardiac transplantation.
Matthew graduated medicine from the University of Western Australia. He completed physician and general cardiology training at Royal Perth Hospital and Hollywood Private Hospital. He was the first cardiologist in Western Australia to return after completing a dedicated international Clinical Fellowship in Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation from Papworth Hospital in England, and has worked in a number of international cardiac transplant units.
Dr Best is a Consultant Cardiologist at Royal Perth Hospital, The Mount Hospital and Hollywood Hospital. He is a member of the WA Advisory Board for the Heart Foundation, the RACP Advanced Training Committee in Cardiology and the Medical Advisory Committee at The Mount Hospital.
His approach to patient care is one of up-to-date best practice care, educating and empowering patients to participate in their health care in order to achieve optimal outcomes. He currently consults from our Nedlands, St James and Perth (Mount Medical Centre) rooms.
Contact Details for Dr Best
T: 6314 6807
F: 6314 6907
E: DrBest.PA@perthcardio.com.au
MBBS (Hons) FRACP
Dr Jay Baumwol is an expert in the management of heart failure. His areas of interests include cardiomyopathy, advanced heart failure, cardiac transplantation, mechanical circulatory support, cardiac amyloidosis, and echocardiography (including stress echocardiography and trans-oesophageal echocardiography or TOE).
Jay graduated medicine with honours from the University of Western Australia. He undertook his general physician and cardiology training at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney where he also completed a Fellowship in Echocardiography, and further trained in advanced heart failure & cardiac transplantation. He then completed a Clinical Fellowship in Advanced Heart Failure & Cardiac Transplantation at Toronto General Hospital, Canada, and also undertook further echocardiography training at Mount Sinai Hospital and Toronto General Hospital, Canada.
Dr Baumwol is a Consultant Cardiologist at Fiona Stanley Hospital and St John of God Murdoch. He is a member of the West Australian Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Service at Fiona Stanley Hospital. He has presented at international conferences and is an active participant in clinical research.
His approach to clinical care prioritises his patients’ understanding of their condition, treatment options and management plan. He currently consults from our Murdoch and Rockingham rooms.
Contact Details for Dr Baumwol
T: 6314 6809
F: 6314 6909
E: DrBaumwol.PA@perthcardio.com.au
MD MSc FRACP
Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Nangrahary is a passionate Consultant Cardiologist, General and Obstetric Physician with a special interest in complex care patients, women’s health, cardiac disease in pregnancy and heart failure and lipid disorders.
After completion of her medical degree in the Netherlands, she specialised in Cardiology and General Medicine in Western Australia. She undertook her fellowship in Echocardiography at Fiona Stanley Hospital, took a keen interest in heart failure and led the Heart Failure Clinic at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (SCGH). She further specialised in Obstetric Medicine and Cardiology at King Edward Memorial Hospital (KEMH).
Her public work is carried out at SCGH and KEMH, and she undertakes the bulk of her private work at Mount Hospital, performing elective and procedural transesophageal echocardiograms (TOEs) and angiograms.
Mary is passionate about teaching and research and is a clinical guest lecturer at Faculty of Medicine University of Western Australia. She is the Chief Investigator in clinical trial “Pre-eclampsia and Cardiac dysfunction in Diabetic Pregnancy” at KEMH.
Dr Nangrahary specialises in comprehensive management of common and complex cardiac conditions as well as diagnostic testing, treatment for patients with acute and chronic cardiovascular conditions and delivering personalised, high-quality cardiac care to patients with cardiac conditions.
Dr Nangrahary sees a wide range of heart conditions including coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease, structural heart disease, pulmonary hypertension, heart failure, heart rhythm disorders, lipid disorders and high blood pressure.
