Dr Pyi Naing
MBBS, MPhil, Dip Echo, FRACP
Dr Pyi Naing is a dual-trained cardiologist and general physician with subspecialty expertise in Echocardiography. His clinical and academic interests include evaluation and management of breathlessness, pulmonary hypertension, chronic heart failure, cardiac risk assessment and valvular heart diseases.
His advanced cardiology training was at The Prince Charles Hospital, the premier cardiac hospital in Australia where he earned the fellowship of Royal Australian College of Physicians (FRACP) in cardiology. He continued his training as an echocardiography fellow at the same hospital and gained further skills in all aspects of echocardiography including transesophageal, transthoracic and stress echocardiography.
Dr Naing is also a well published clinical academic with an MPhil degree from University of Notre Dame, Australia. He is currently completing a Ph.D. degree by studying novel methods to improve the care for breathless patients. He holds a senior lecturer position at the School of Medicine, University of Queensland. He has public appointments in Caboolture Hospital as a consultant cardiologist.
He is bilingual in Burmese and English.
Special Interests:
- Echocardiography (transesophageal, transthoracic and stress)
- Breathlessness evaluation and management
- Chest pain and cardiac risk assessment and management
- Management of valvular heart diseases
- Pulmonary hypertension evaluation and management
- Heart failure management
- Transesophageal echocardiogram (TOE) guided electrical cardioversion
- Detailed assessment of cardiac valve function by TOE