Dr Rahul Mudannayake
MBBS, BSc (Hons), FANZCA, FRCA, NBE Advanced PTE diplomate, PGCert (Education)
Rahul is an experienced educator and a consultant cardiac anaesthetist in Adelaide, South Australia. He is passionate about the scientific foundations of anaesthesia and perioperative echocardiography.
He was previously a consultant anaesthetist at the Princes Alexandra in Brisbane as well as Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. He has also been a high school science teacher for over 20 years with over 10,000 hours of teaching experience.
Rahul read in biochemistry in Vermont as an undergraduate, and then Medicine and Immunology at Imperial College London. He trained in anaesthesia in the Wessex region followed by registrar training in Cambridge.
He undertook fellowships in cardiothoracic anaesthesia at the Royal Papworth Hospital as well as Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth. He has done a major general/liver fellowship at Addenbrooke’s Hospital as well as an airway fellowship.
He completed the diplomate of Perioperative Transesophogeal Echocardiography by the US National Board of Echocardiography.
He also has a PGCert in Education and Leadership from Cambridge University. He was a University of Cambridge Royal Papworth and Addenbrooke’s Hospital Education Fellow and the national trainee representative for the Association for Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Critical Care.
He is currently a MBA student at the University of Edinburgh.