Rate My Professor Hadi Nojoumian

Dr. Hadi Nojoumian serves as Senior Lecturer in General Medicine in the School of Rural Medicine at the University of New England. A qualified cardiologist and general physician, he holds an MD from Iran, Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP), and Fellowship of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (FCSANZ). He completed his specialist training at Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital. In addition to his primary appointment at UNE, Dr. Nojoumian is a Conjoint Senior Lecturer in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Newcastle. He teaches internal medicine and cardiology to fourth- and fifth-year students enrolled in the Joint Medical Program at the Tablelands Clinical School. His clinical practice encompasses general cardiology, echocardiography, and stress testing, with a focus on rural medicine.

Dr. Nojoumian’s research specializations include acute coronary syndrome and assessment of right ventricular function. He has co-authored several systematic reviews and meta-analyses examining exercise training effects on cardiovascular outcomes, particularly in heart failure patients. Key publications include “Clinical Outcomes and Cardiovascular Responses to Different Exercise Training Intensities in Patients With Heart Failure: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis” (JACC: Heart Failure, 2013), with H. Ismail, J.R. McFarlane, G. Dieberg, and N.A. Smart; “Stress Cardiomyopathy in Dextrocardia with Situs Inversus and Anomalous Coronary Arteries” (Cardiology in the Young, 2020), with D.W. Baker; “The Effect of Resistance Training on Clinical Outcomes in Heart Failure: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis” (International Journal of Cardiology, 2016), with colleagues; and “Projected Future Distribution of Date Palm and Its Potential Use in Alleviating Micronutrient Deficiency” (Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 2016), with F. Shabani et al. His broader interests extend to medical humanities, philosophy of medicine, and Persian film; he is a founding member of Honar Andishi, a Sydney-based monthly literary and film study group, and contributed to the development of the Persian Film Festival.