Dr Arunasalam Shyamala

Dr Shyamala has two specialities, infectious diseases and general medicine. She trained and worked in two countries including Australia for 20 years and works as a senior consultant in Australia for over 7 years. She spent several years managing diverse conditions in general and acute care, infectious diseases, as well as tropical medicine and travel medicine.

She works as senior consultant and participate in teaching young trainees and medical students. Dr Shyamala embraces patient centred care and brings evidenced based medicine into clinical practice.

Expertise includes:

• Diagnosis,treatment and monitoring of general medical conditions and infectious diseases

• PUO

• General (cardiovascular,respiratory,urinary, skin and soft tissue, zoonotic infections, CNS infections and orthopedic and musculoskeletal infections

• HIV and STI

• Parasitic infections

• Infections in immunocompromised patients

• Travel medicine

• Tropical medicine

• Chronic multisystem diseases involvement

• Complex comorbid medical and infectious conditions.

She is a member of the following organisations:

• Royal Australian College of Physicians

• Australian Society for Infectious Disease

• American Society of Microbiology

• Australasian Society for HIV Medicine

• Infectious Diseases Society of America

• Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand.