Rajeshkannan Nadarajah

Dr Nadarajah Rajeshkannan (Rajesh) MBBS (Sri Lanka), MSc (Community Medicine), DCH (Diploma in Child Health, Sydney), FRACGP (Fellowship of Royal Australian College of General Practitioner), Master of Family Medicine (Monash) Dr Rajesh graduated MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery) at University of Jaffna (Sri Lanka) in 2003 and also completed Masters in Community Medicine at University of Colombo (Sri Lanka) in 2008. After 7 years and 7 months of working in Sri Lanka Rajesh moved to Australia in 2011, since then he worked in different rural cities of New South Wales over 5 years (Broken Hill, Dareton and Buronga) as GP and gained FRACGP in 2014.He also completed Diploma in Child Health in 2013 with University of Sydney and he has completed Masters in Family Medicine at Monash (2016). Raj decided to become a GP in his early stage of medical career and he finds his work very exciting, challenging and rewarding. He has a strong passion for over all patient care, chronic diseases management, prevention in General Practice, aboriginal health and men health . Special interests include prevention in general practice, chronic disease management including diabetic care and cardiovascular medicine. He also loves teaching medical students and next generation GPs and he served as a supervisor of GP registrar remotely for RVTS (Remote Vocational Training Scheme) . His social passion includes reading, contributing thorough his epidemiology and statistics knowledge to publish research papers in different peer reviewed international Journals, participating in spiritual activities, home gardening ,cricket and spending time with family and friends. Received NRC Merit award from National research Council of Sri Lanka in year 2012 and 2014 for scientific Publication