Dr Bamford is a general and structural interventional cardiologist, currently practicing at John Hunter Hospital and Lingard Private Hospital. Now visiting The Mid North Coast each week, alternating between Forster and Mayo Private consulting rooms.

He graduated from Oxford University with two Masters degrees before completing his medical training at the University of Warwick. Dr Bamford completed his cardiology advanced training in the Central Coast. After attaining Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP, London) and Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP), he pursued a subspecialty interventional cardiology fellowship at John Hunter Hospital. He was awarded the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ) scholarship to pursue a transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) fellowship in the UK.

Dr Bamford is the first named author of over a dozen papers in peer-reviewed medical journals in areas including complex percutaneous coronary intervention, heart failure and transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) and he has presented at national and international conferences. He is passionate about medical education and is a conjoint lecturer at the University of Newcastle, a member of the Academy of Clinical Educators and an editorial fellow for JSCAI. In addition to performing coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention, Dr Bamford has level A accreditation reporting computed tomography coronary angiography (CTCA).

Now accepting referrals and starting on 17 June 2024 with Healthe Heart at Forster and Mayo Private Hospital consulting suites.