Dr Richard Szirt is an Interventional and General cardiologist trained in Australia and the Republic of Ireland. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP).
Dr Richard Szirt
He currently holds a public staff specialist position at St George Public Hospital in Sydney where he is Director of the Catheter Laboratories and co-Supervisor of cardiology registrar training.
Dr Szirt graduated from the University of Wollongong with Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS). He completed specialty cardiology training in the South East Sydney Local Health District Network comprising rotations through St George, Prince of Wales, Sutherland and Port Macquarie Public Hospitals. Following completion of his specialist training he was conferred fellowship with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
He then underwent two years of subspecialty training in Interventional Cardiology. The first year of fellowship was undertaken locally at St George Public Hospital and the second year was performed overseas in the Republic of Ireland at St James’s Hospital in Dublin, which is the largest volume coronary interventional centre in Ireland. On completion of his fellowship in Dublin he was appointed as a Consultant Cardiologist at St James’s Hospital.
Dr Szirt is trained in and performs all aspects of coronary intervention including rotational, orbital and excimer laser atherectomy, intracoronary lithotripsy and chronic total occlusions. He has a particular interest in complex bifurcations, calcified lesions and intracoronary imaging (IVUS and OCT).
Professional Memberships/Fellowships
- Royal Australasian College of Physicians
- Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand
- Irish Cardiac Society
- European Society of Cardiology
- Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT)
Specialisations
- General cardiology
- Cardiac catheterization
- Coronary angioplasty
- ECG
- Holter
- Echocardiogram
- Stress Test