Dr Jeyamani Ramachandran

Academic Status

College of Medicine and Public Health

place Flinders Medical Centre

Jeya is a transplant hepatologist and clincal researcher attached to the heptology and liver transplant medicine unit at Flinders Medical Centre. Armed with a decade long experience of clinical ,academic and research experience from a renowned tertiary medical centre in India, she migrated to Australia in 2015. After obtaining fellowship of the Royal Australian College of Physicians in 2016, she went onto do PhD on The models of care in management of liver cirrhosis in 2020.She is avidly pursuing multiple clincial research projects Iin cirrhosis including cirrhotic cardiomyopathy, acute on chronic liver failure and the role of long term abdominal drains in refractory ascites and supervision of research higher degree students. She has 55 peer reviewed publications to her credit. Her current research interest is investigation into structural, functional and clinical correlation of cirrhotic cardiomyopathy for which she is putting together a national team of collaborators from hepatology and cardiology.

Qualifications

MBBS-1991

MD-1993

DM-2000

FRACP-2016

PhD -2020

Honours, awards and grants

·    Recipient of the Publication Award for Ph.D. Student 2019 by the College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, South Australia.

  •     Recipient of the Publication Award for Ph.D. Student 2018 by the College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, South Australia.
Key responsibilities

Principal investigator for a multicentre prospective study on Global Myocardial Function in Decompensated Cirrhosis and Its Clinical Significance

Principal Supervisor for a researc higher degree student at the College of Medicine and Public Health, FMRI on Cardiac dysfucntion in liver cirrhosis

Supervisor for a study onPrevalence, Risk Factors and Prognosis of Acute on Chronic Liver Failure in South Australian Liver Transplant Unit

Prinicpal investigator for apilot study titled Long-Term Abdominal Drains in Refractory Ascites due to End-Stage Liver Disease

Investigator in the study on the Qualitative Analysis of Patient and Nurses’ Experiences on Adelaide Liver Failure Trial with Prof.Wigg

Investigator in the research on the Validation of Cirrhosis Knowledge Questionnaire in Adelaide Liver Failure Trial with Prof.Wigg

Associate Investigator in the research on Predicting Decompensation in Compensated Cirrhosis Using Non-invasive Markers of Portal Hypertension Using Liver Extracellular Vesicles with A/Prof. Andew Rolland and Kate Muller.

Higher degree by research supervision
Current
Principal supervisor: cardiac dysfunction in liver cirrhosis (1)