General Internal Medicine Unit

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Head of Unit, Footscray Campus:  

Professor Edward Janus

Phone: 8345-7266       Facsimile: 9318-1157

Head of Unit, Sunshine Campus:

Dr. John Katsoulis   

Phone: 8345-1333

 Outpatient Clinics are held at Western Hospital - Footscray on

Tuesday Afternoon - 1st Floor

  •  General Medical Unit 1

Thursday Afternoon - 1st Floor

  • General Medical Unit 2
Consultants in General Internal Medicine Consultant Name
Footscray Campus

Dr. Mahesan Anpalahan                                Dr Craig Nelson

Prof. Peter Ebeling                                          Dr Meninda Menadae

Dr. Harin Karunajeewa                                   Dr Vicky Levidiotis         

Dr. Thuy Le                                                        Dr Elke Hendrichs

Dr. Keith Lim                                                     Dr Leo Rando

Sunshine Campus

Dr John Katsoulis                                            Dr Chelliah Gnanaharan

Dr Victoria Tan                                                  Dr Robert Chen

Dr Nirajan "NJ" Arachchi

Williamstown Campus Dr Thuy Le
Advanced Trainee 2012
Dr Prasaana Rodrigo - Senior Medical Registrar
Registrars Eight positions including 2 night registrars

 RESEARCH PROJECTS

  1. Evidence based medicine-implementation in clinical settings
  2. Organisation wide Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis
  3. Diabetes epidemiology and prevention (with Diabetes Australia and Greater Green Triangle University Department of Rural Health, Flinders University) - NHMRC Project.
  4. Gestational diabetes - registers and intervention to prevent type 2 diabetes developing in the longer term - multi state NHMRC Partnership project.
  5. Cardiovascular disease and diabetes epidemiology and prevention long term follow up of 1994-1996 Hong Kong cohort with the Department of Medicine and Department of Community Medicine, the University of Hong Kong.
  6. Cardiovascular disease and diabetes epidemiology and prevention internationally - with National Institute of Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.