Rajesh graduated MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery) at the University of Jaffna (Sri Lanka) in 2003 and also completed Masters in Community Medicine at the University of Colombo (Sri Lanka) in 2008.

After 7 years and 7 months of working in Sri Lanka Rajesh moved to Australia in 2011, since then he worked in different rural cities of New South Wales over the 5 years (Broken Hill, Dareton and Buronga) as GP and gained FRACGP in 2014. He also completed a diploma in Child Health in 2013 with the University of Sydney and he has completed Master’s degree in Family Medicine at Monash (2016).

Raj decided to become a GP in his initial stage of medical career and he finds his work very exciting, challenging and rewarding. He has a strong passion for holistic patient care, chronic disease management including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, musculoskeletal medicine and prevention in General Practice.He also loves teaching medical students and next generation GPs and he served as a supervisor of GP registrar remotely for RVTS (Remote Vocational Training Scheme).

His social passion includes reading, contributing thorough his epidemiology and statistics knowledge to publish research papers in different peer reviewed international Journals ( Received NRC Merit award from National research Council of Sri Lanka in year 2012 and 2014 for scientific Publication), home gardening , cricket and spending time with family and friends.