About Dr Barlow

Having attended secondary school in Melbourne, he attended medical school at the University of Melbourne. After internship at the Austin Hospital, he undertook specialist training in General medicine, working at the Austin and Repatriation General Hospitals, St. Vincent’s Hospital, and the Box Hill hospital. After a short time working as a general physician, he decided to specialise in Cardiology, and completed training in this at the Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide.

 

He then spent 3 ½ years undertaking sub-specialty training in cardiac electrophysiology and pacing in Canada. The first 2 years were at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, with Drs Charlie Kerr and John Yeung. The last 18 months he trained at the London Health Sciences Unit in Ontario, with Drs George Klein, Raymond Yee, Andrew Krahn and Allan Skanes.

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These were high-volume specialist training centres, serving large areas and populations within Canada. Accordingly, he was exposed to a large and varied number of arrhythmias. During training, he was the primary proceduralist in >600 electrophysiological and >300 pacing procedures.

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After returning from Canada in 2000 he took up a full-time staff specialist position at the John Hunter Hospital. He was for many years the Director of Electrophysiology and Pacing at JHH. In 2018, he stepped down from that role to concentrate on his private practice.