Dr Kumar Visvanathan (Infectious Disease Specialist)

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Name
Dr Kumar Visvanathan
Qualifications
MBBS University of New South Wales 1986
FRACP 1997
Occupation
Infectious Disease Specialist
General Physician
Gender
Male
Languages Spoken
Tamil
Medical Specialties
Infectious Disease
Phone
03 9288 2745
Fax
03 9288 2581
Email

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Dr Kumar Visvanathan is a specialist in infectious diseases and the immunology of the innate immune system. Following his medical undergraduate degree in 1986, Kumar, completed his PhD thesis at the University of New South Wales and undertook postgraduate work at Rockefeller University in New York. He came back to Australia in 2000 and started his lab in innate immunity at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute moving to Monash University and Monash Medical Centre in 2005 before moving more recently to the University of Melbourne and St.Vincents Hopital in 2012. He developed prominence through his innovative research on the innate immunity involving sepsis and viral hepatitis (Hepatology, 2003).

Hospital Affiliations
St Vincent's Private Fitzroy
Affiliated Clinics
Monash Infectious Diseases
Affiliated Universities
University of Melbourne

Practice Locations

VIC

Monash Infectious Diseases
Monash Medical Centre
Level 3
246 Clayton Rd
Clayton VIC 3168 
Australia
03 9594 4564
03 9594 4533