Our Doctors
Dr Peter Hayes
MBBS (Syd) FRACP
Dr Peter Hayes provides consultations in all areas of adult cardiology and specialises in non invasive diagnostic imaging testing.
He undertook specialist cardiology training at St Vincent's hospital, Sydney and a further fellowship in echocardiography with research projects including novel treatment of adult congenital heart disorders
Peter has lived and worked in Newcastle since 2002. He holds a staff specialist cardiologist position at John Hunter hospital and a conjoint lecturer position at the University of Newcastle.
He performs and reports transthoracic, transoesophageal echocardiograms and supervises and reports exercise stress echocardiograms, pharmacologic stress echocardiograms and exercise stress ECGs.
Dr Stuart Murch
BMed DMedSci FRACP FSCMR
Dr Stuart Murch is a clinical cardiologist and cardiac imaging specialist, with experience in transthoracic, transoesophageal and stress echocardiography, cardiac CT and cardiac MRI.
Stuart grew up in Newcastle and studied medicine at The University of Newcastle. He undertook cardiology specialist training at Homerton University Hospital, London, UK and St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria.
Stuart then trained further in cardiac imaging, completing fellowships in cardiac MRI, cardiac CT and echocardiography at University College London Hospitals, UK. He has attained Australasian level A accreditation in cardiac CT and is a Fellow of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance.
Stuart is currently Director of Cardiology at Calvary Mater Hospital Newcastle.