Dr Kunal Nagar

Special clinical interest in coronary interventions, intravascular imaging, and coronary functional testing.

About Dr Kunal Nagar

Dr Kunal Nagar is an Australian-trained general and interventional cardiologist. He has a keen interest in chest pain assessment, arrhythmias, heart failure, and preventive cardiology.

He completed his physician training at Nepean Hospital, Sydney, followed by cardiology training at Campbelltown-Liverpool Hospital Network. He then pursued interventional fellowships at Western Health, Melbourne (Yean L. Lim Fellowship), and Campbelltown Hospital, Sydney.
Dr Nagar has worked as a locum interventional cardiologist at major hospitals across Australia, including Sunshine Coast University Hospital, Bendigo Health, Townsville University Hospital, and Mackay Base Hospital. After a fulfilling locum experience, he now calls the Sunshine Coast home.

A passionate educator and mentor, he has served as a Conjoint Associate Lecturer at Western Sydney University and UNSW, training medical students and cardiology trainees.

Dr Nagar is dedicated to personalised, patient-centred care, ensuring patients and their families feel heard, valued, and well-supported.

He is fluent in English, Hindi, Gujarati, and Marathi.

Professional memberships

• Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians

Publications

• Long-Term Outcomes in Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) with Cre8 Stents: A Single-Centre Registry – K. Nagar, P. Pender, J. Leung, A. Hopkins, D. Leung, R. Rajaratnam, C. Juergens, T. Badie, S. Lo Heart, Lung and Circulation, Volume 30, S312 (2021)
• VERMONT non-optimised: can baseline diagnostic catheter images be used to measure angiography based CAAS-vFFR? – D Akrawi, K Kadappu, O Gibbs, T Badie, H Kachwalla, P Nguyen, K Nagar, R Kurup, U Premawardhana, A Hennessy, A O’loughlin, J Xu, G Femia – European Heart Journal, Volume 45, Issue Supplement_1, October 2024