Dr Kumar Visvanathan (Infectious Disease Specialist)
- 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
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
Melbourne
- Monash Infectious Diseases
- Address
- Monash Medical Centre
Level 3
246 Clayton Rd
Clayton VIC 3168
Australia
- Phone
- 03 9594 4564
- Fax
- 03 9594 4533
