Dr Peter Illes graduated in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1980, and trained in internal medicine at the University of Capetown from 1990 to 1993. He then undertook training in Cardiology at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne as the Senior Registrar to Professor RWFC Campbell, the president of the British Heart Foundation.
Dr Illes attained the FRACP in Australia in 1998 and is currently in private practice at the above locations. His present interests include pacemaker insertion and specialised pacing, such as biventricular systems for heart failure, defibrillator insertion, and all aspects of interventional and diagnostic cardiology.
He is currently the Director of the Coronary Care Unit and Director of Echocardiology Services at the Sydney Adventist Hospital, Senior Clinical lecturer at the Macquarie University Hospital and Consultant Cardiologist at Northern Beaches Hospital
