Dr. Bamford is a general and interventional cardiologist at Lingard Private Hospital, Australia. He is also a Conjoint Fellow at the University of Newcastle. He graduated from Oxford University with two Masters degrees and completed his medical training at the University of Warwick. After attaining Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP, London), Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP), and level A accreditation reporting computed tomography coronary angiography (CTCA), he pursued a sub-specialty interventional cardiology fellowship at John Hunter Hospital. This was followed by a scholarship through the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ) to pursue a structural fellowship at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK.

Dr. Bamford is the first named author of over a dozen papers in peer-reviewed medical journals, including JSCAI in areas (including complex percutaneous coronary intervention, heart failure, and transcatheter aortic valve implantation), and he has presented at national and international conferences. He is passionate about medical education and is an Academy of Clinical Educators member.