He is the Des Renford Professor of Medicine at University of New South Wales[1] and the Head of the Molecular Cardiology and Biophysics Division at Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute.

[2] Robert Graham received his medical training, MBBS with Honours, and his MD degree from the University of New South Wales.

[3] In 1982, Graham moved to the Massachusetts General Hospital (Cellular and Molecular Research Laboratory, Edgar Haber, Chairman) and Harvard Medical School, Boston as an Associate Professor of Medicine.

[7] For many years his research has focused on molecular cardiology, with emphasis on circulatory control mechanisms, receptor signalling, hypertension and cardiac hypertrophy.

[8][9] More recently, together with colleagues, Ahsan Husain and Siiri Iismaa, Graham has been actively involved in studies of cardiac regeneration and the application of stem cells for the treatment of heart diseases, and with A/Prof Eleni Giannoulatou, the pathophysiology and genetics of spontaneous coronary artery dissection.