Organisers - Anzgmu

Staff Specialists & Advanced Trainee Representatives

Dr. Ashwin Swaminathan

Clinical Director of General Medicine & Senior Staff Specialist in Dept. of Infectious Disease and General Medicine, Canberra Hospital, Australia

Ashwin Swaminathan

Clinical Director of General Medicine & Senior Staff Specialist in Dept. of Infectious Disease and General Medicine, Canberra Hospital, Australia

Dr. Ashwin Swaminathan is a General Medicine and Infectious Diseases Physician based in Canberra. He has a research interest in environmental health, infectious diseases epidemiology and clinical service delivery research.

Dr. Rajni Lal

Staff Specialist in the Department of Geriatric at Ryde Hospital

Rajni Lal

Staff Specialist in the Department of Geriatric at Ryde Hospital

Rajni is a Geriatric and General medicine physician based in Ryde Hospital. She has undertaken a fellowship in perioperative medicine at Guy’s and St’ Thomas Hospital, London, and completed her Master of Public Health, University of Sydney. She is passionate about improving patient care and believes collaborating is a vital component for successful results.

She was initially the trainee representative with ANZCA POC SIG and now as a Geriatric representative within the committee and a founding member for ANZSGM POC SIG. Her interest also includes frailty, social prescribing and shared decision making, and was awarded Young Researcher Prize at the European Society for Person Centered Healthcare. In her free time she enjoys reading, walking and relaxing with a glass of wine.

Dr. Nicole Gilroy

Senior Staff Specialist in Infectious Diseases, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia

Nicole Gilroy

Senior Staff Specialist in Infectious Diseases, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia

Dr. Nicky Gilroy is a past member of the national Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisations (ATAGI) and former Chair of the Advisory Committee for the Safety of Vaccines, an advisory group for the Therapeutic Goods Administration. She served as an Infectious Diseases consultant to the Blood & Marrow Transplant Network NSW for over a decade.

Her professional interests include Hospital Infection control and prevention, clinical epidemiology, control of vaccine-preventable diseases and management of complex infections in those with impaired immunity.

Dr.Andrew Emerson

Geriatrician and Member of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Geriatric Medicine

Dr.Andrew Emerson

Geriatrician

Dr.Andrew Emerson is a geriatrician with an interest in falls, frailty and cognitive disorders in the elderly. He is passionate about teaching and is a clinical lecturer with the University of Sydney. He works in a tertiary hospital in Sydney and is a member of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Geriatric Medicine.

ANZGMU Coordinator

Dr Surjit Tarafdar

Staff Specialist in the Medical Assessment Unit and the Department of Nephrology at Blacktown Hospital and a conjoint senior lecturer in Medicine at the University of Western Sydney

Surjit Tarafdar

Staff Specialist in the Medical Assessment Unit and the Department of Nephrology at Blacktown Hospital and a conjoint senior lecturer in Medicine at the University of Western Sydney

Dr. Surjit Tarafdar works at Blacktown Hospital in Sydney and is also a conjoint senior lecturer in Medicine at the University of Western Sydney. He also holds the position of visiting Faculty in the department of Nephrology in Kasturba Medical College at Manipal, India since 2018.

Dr. Tarafdar has edited ‘Nephrology: A Comprehensive Guide to Renal Medicine’ published by Wiley-Blackwell in Feb 2020. A study guide for medical post-graduation trainees, this book has twenty chapters covering general nephrology, dialysis, and transplantation.

Dr. Tarafdar also conceptualized and co-authored the 1st edition of “Passing the FRACP Written Examination- Questions and Answers” published by Wiley-Blackwell in October 2013.

Dr. Tarafdar’s passion for teaching is exemplified by the various courses he has conceptualised including ‘Revise Nephrology’ for the BPTs running since 2015, and the annual ‘Australia and New Zealand General Medicine Update’ for the consultants and Advanced Trainees of General Medicine running since 2019.