MBBS, MD, PhD, FRACP, FCSANZ, FHRS.

Calvary Central Districts Hospital
Northern Cardiology and Specialists Clinic

Dr Rajiv Mahajan is a heart rhythm expert with a joint appointment in the Department of Cardiology at Lyell McEwin Hospital and the Adelaide Medical School at the University of Adelaide.
 
His expertise in the management of patients with arrhythmias includes electrophysiology study and catheter ablation and device therapy including pacemakers, defibrillators, and cardiac resynchronization therapies. He has a particular interest in catheter ablation of complex arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation.
 
Dr Rajiv Mahajan graduated from the University of Delhi in 1997. He continued his Physician training at the University of Delhi and then Cardiology training at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. He further undertook 4-year clinical training in Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacing at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide.
 
He has completed a PhD on the role of obesity in atrial fibrillation and furthered his research in the postdoctoral period at the University of Adelaide. He was supported by the Australian Post Graduate Award and the Leo J Mahar Scholarship during his PhD and by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and the National Heart Foundation (NHF) during the post-doctoral period. The work from his PhD has provided mechanistic link between obesity and atrial fibrillation and demonstrated that intervention by weight reduction may favourably impact obesity related AF substrate.

His excellence in research has been recognised by several awards such as the prestigious Ralph Reader prize, Cardiology Society of Australia and New Zealand (2013) and the Young Investigator Award, Heart Rhythm Society, USA (2013), First prize, Best Oral abstract at the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (2013), Eric Prystowsky Clinical Research Award, Heart Rhythm Society, USA (2015), Derek Frewin Early Career Researcher Award (2017) and the Young Author Achievement Award, JACC Journals (2018).
 
Dr Rajiv Mahajan has published widely in peer reviewed journals and has over 110 publications and several book chapters. Dr Mahajan is interested in research leading to improvement in the management of heart rhythm disorders. He has a particular interest in the modification of its risk factors and interventions aimed at improving outcomes of patients with atrial fibrillation. In addition, he is interested in investigating the potential ways that can reduce the burden of cognitive impairment in atrial fibrillation and is supported by The Hospital Research Fund.
 
He is dedicated to education of patients and doctors in the management of heart rhythm disorders. He is responsible for the establishing the Specialised AF Clinic at the Lyell McEwin Hospital to provide comprehensive care to patients with atrial fibrillation.