Dr Dipen Sankhesara is an interventional cardiologist. After graduating in medicine from Gujarat (India) in 2006, Dr Sankhesara moved to Perth to pursue a masters degree in health administration from Curtin University (2010). Since then, he has worked at all major academic hospitals across WA and completed cardiology training in 2021.

Dr Sankhesara completed fellowship in interventional cardiology at Royal Perth Hospital (2022), followed by a further fellowship at Sheffield Teaching Hospital Trusts, UK (2023) with special focus on complex coronary intervention and chronic total occlusion (CTO) revascularisation.

During his fellowship, Dr Sankhesara has presented at major cardiology conferences and has been an investigator in major clinical trials such as RESTORE-MI, PUFFBALL Study, Multivessel TALENT Study and Selution De Novo Study.

Dr Sankhesara is extensively trained in contemporary and advanced techniques in percutaneous coronary angioplasty and stenting, intracoronary imaging, metal free angioplasty (drug-coated balloon angioplasty) and advanced coronary physiology assessment (testing for angina with normal coronary arteries). He also has considerable experience in managing patients with advanced heart failure, gained during his rotation with the State Cardiac Transplant Service at Fiona Stanley Hospital.

Dr Sankhesara’s clinical interests include:

• general and preventative cardiology
• cardiovascular risk assessment
• coronary artery disease (acute and chronic coronary syndrome)
• microvascular angina
• heart failure.

Outside of work, he enjoys cricket, travel and landscape photography.