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Vasi Naganathan

Centre for Education and Research on Ageing, Concord Hosptial, NSW, Australia

MBBS, FRACP, PhD, MMed (Clin Epi), Grad Cert Med Ed Vasi Naganathan is Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Sydney and a Consultant Geriatrician at Concord Hospital in Sydney. He is co-director of the Centre of Education and Research on Ageing (CERA). His research interests are wide including: health of older men, oral health, falls, fractures and osteoporosis, pharmacology in older people and the application of evidence-based medicine to older people. He is author on more than 250 publications. Vasi collaborates with and exchanges ideas with some of Australia’s leading researchers and thinkers in Geriatric medicine and Ageing Research. He is the president of the Australian New Zealand Society of Geriatric Medicine. His clinical work mainly involved looking patients on the acute Geriatric Medicine wards and rehabilitation wards. He also does a monthly 2 days clinic in regional NSW in the Murrumbidgee where he lived for a few years during high school years.