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Dr Arul Baradi is an interventional cardiologist with subspecialty training in complex coronary and structural cardiac intervention. He recently completed a two-year fellowship in complex coronary intervention at the Royal Papworth Hospital, the UK's leading cardiac specialty centre affiliated with the University of Cambridge, followed by a one-year fellowship in adult structural intervention at the Royal Sussex County Hospital under Professor David Hildick-Smith, current president of the British Cardiac Intervention Society. Dr Baradi completed medical school at the University of Auckland before undertaking physician and cardiology specialty training in Melbourne. He holds appointments as a research fellow at the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, and as a doctoral researcher at the University of Melbourne, maintaining an active role in both research and clinical education.

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