Professional Special Interests
Cardiac electrophysiology
Biography
Dr Bobby John is a Consultant Cardiologist and a Senior Staff Specialist at The Townsville Hospital with almost two decades of experience in Cardiology and has been a Cardiac Electrophysiologist since 2004. He graduated from Christian Medical College, Vellore, a renowned quaternary teaching Hospital in India started by Dr Ida Scudder, an American missionary in 1900. He was on the faculty of CMC and was heading the Electrophysiology unit before making a move to Australia.
Dr John is academically oriented having graduated among the best of his cohorts in medical school. His interest in Cardiac Electrophysiology was spurred on by one of Dr Hein Wellens disciples, Dr Lokhandwala. Further to that he pursued a PhD programme at the University of Adelaide in 2006 Studying arrhythmias in Rheumatic Heart disease; a relevant problem in India and among the indigenous population in Australia.
