Dr Prakash Nayagam qualified from the University of Ceylon, Colombo and then travelled to the U.K. obtaining the MRCP (UK) and trained with dual accreditation in General and Geriatric Medicine in Guys Hospital, London. He migrated to Australia in 1990, awarded the FRACP in 1992 and settled on the Mornington Peninsula that same year. He has worked here ever since in both the public and private sector. He was an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Medicine at Monash University, an IMG teacher at AMA House and examiner for the AMC and FRACP exams. He sits on the Medical Advisory Committees of three hospitals on the Mornington Peninsula. He is a former Chairman of the Medical Staff Association of Peninsula Health and the Peninsula AMA Sub-Division of which he is a current Committee member.
Interests:
All aspects of General and Geriatric Medicine (including stroke, dementia, Parkinson’s disease) as well as Perioperative Medicine.