Dr Vijaya Venkataraman

Dr Vijaya (VJ) Venkataraman is our founding Consultant Physician at Neurospine Institute WA and shares a public and private appointment between NSIWA and Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital. She obtained her MBBS degree in 1997 and MD in 2000 in Northern India (both with gold medal achievements). She further completed a three-year training program in cardiology and echocardiogram at Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre in Mumbai. After her cardiology training, Dr Venkataraman relocated to the Maldives in 2004, serving as a Consultant Physician at a large private hospital, specializing in acute medicine, cardiology, and provided ICU coverage during emergencies. She then moved to the United Kingdom where she worked in various locum roles for several months and successfully passed her MRCP exams and later received the FRCP Edinburgh Designation.

In 2006, she made her way to Australia, assuming the position of a Consultant Physician at both Mersey Community Hospital in Latrobe and North West Regional Hospital in Burnie, Tasmania. She completed her Australian Fellowship peer review period, echocardiogram peer review period, and passed her FRACP exam at John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle, New South Wales. In 2012, she relocated to Western Australia, joining Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital (WACHS) as a Senior Consultant Physician with a special interest in Cardiology.

Dr Venkataraman represented WACHS Goldfields in cardiovascular executive advisory committee meetings and became an Associate Professor at RCS, University of WA in 2013. Dr Venkataraman specialises in acute medicine with special interest in cardiology (with a focus on heart failure), complex cardiac conditions in indigenous populations, rheumatic heart disease, and echocardiography. She enjoys teaching and is a medical coordinator with RCS, University of Western Australia.

Throughout her career, Dr Venkataraman has maintained close collaboration with local general practitioners in Kalgoorlie and she started offering after-hours private, bulk-billed clinics at Trinity Medical Centre. In 2019, Dr Venkataraman joined the Department of Medicine at Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital as a Senior Consultant Physician in acute medicine.

Additionally, she serves as a Senior Consultant Physician at St John of God Subiaco Hospital and participates on the perioperative physician roster at Mount and Murdoch Hospital. She also displays a keen interest in perioperative medicine and post-operative recovery and has completed her Master’s degree in Perioperative Medicine from Monash University in 2023 with the capstone project, “Establishing a new periop physicians service for a busy private neurosurgery practice in Perth”.