CNARTS Nephrologists and surgeons

Nephrologists

Assoc. Prof Shilpa Jesudason — Head of Unit Nephrology (CNARTS)

Locations:

• Royal Adelaide Hospital
• The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
• Hampstead Dialysis Centre

Read about Professor Jesudason's research work

Prof Randall Faull - Senior Consultant for Nephrology (CNARTS)

Locations:

• Royal Adelaide Hospital
• Hampstead Dialysis Centre
• The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
• Payneham Dialysis Unit

Biography:

Professor Faull is a senior Nephrology consultant and clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Adelaide. His current positions include senior Nephrology consultant at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, acting Medical Lead of Specialty Medicine 1 in the Central Adelaide Local Health Network, and chair of the South Australian Medicines Advisory Committee.

He is a past Director of the Medical Program at the University of Adelaide, past President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology, past President of the Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand, and the current South Australian representative on the Clinical Examination Committee of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. He has been a member of the senior College examination panel for more than 10 years. With Professor Eric Haan, he set up the renal genetics clinic at the Royal Adelaide Hospital under the KidGen banner, and continues to attend that clinic as the nephrologist representative.

Dr Jobert Anjelo

Locations:

• Royal Adelaide Hospital
• The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
• Gawler Health Services
• Port Augusta Hospital

Biography:

Dr. Anjelo obtained his MD from the prestigious Saint Petersburg Medical Academy, St Petersburg, Russia and is at present Consultant Nephrologist – Central Northern Adelaide Renal and Transplantation services (CNARTS) Royal Adelaide Hospital, Consultant Nephrologist at Ashford Hospital, Memorial Hospital, Calvary Hospitals, Burnside War Memorial Hospital and St Andrews Hospital and Visiting Nephrology Consultant at Port Augusta Hospital and Gawler Hospital and Consultant for Private Dialysis Units NephroCare at Payneham and Brighton.

Dr. Anjelo is a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Adelaide and has supervised students in General Medicine and Nephrology. He has published articles in numerous professional journals and has research experience in clinical trials.

He is also, among others, member of Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology, American Society of Nephrology, and General Medical Council, UK and has Specialist Registration with AHPRA.
Dr. Anjelo has special interests in Chronic Renal Failure, Renal Transplantation and Dialysis.

Dr Samantha Bateman

Locations:

• Royal Adelaide Hospital
• Nunkuwarrin Yunti
• Ceduna Medical Centre

Assoc. Prof Robert Carroll

Locations:

• Royal Adelaide Hospital (including the Young Adult clinic)
• Women’s and Children’s Hospital Transition Clinic

Assoc. Prof Philip Clayton

Locations:

• Royal Adelaide Hospital
• Hampstead Dialysis Centre
• Payneham Dialysis Centre
• Port Pirie Hospital
  
  

Prof. Toby Coates (Director of Transplantation)

Locations:

• Royal Adelaide Hospital
• The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
• Mt Gambier Hospital
• Clare District Hospital
• Darwin Hospital
• Alice Springs Hospital

Dr Michael Collins

Locations:

• Royal Adelaide Hospital
• The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
• Murray Bridge Hospital

Dr Tony Elias — Acting Dialysis Director

Locations:

• Royal Adelaide Hospital — Clinic time: Thursdays
• Lyell McEwin Hospital — Clinic time: Monday afternoons
• Hampstead Dialysis Centre — Clinic time: alternate Tuesday afternoons
• Payneham Dialysis Centre (Nephrocare) — Clinic time: alternate Tuesday afternoons

Biography:

Dr Tony Elias is a Senior Staff Nephrologist providing care to patients with all forms of kidney diseases, including acute GN, CKD, dialysis and post acute transplant care.

Dr Georgina L Irish

Locations:

• Royal Adelaide Hospital
• Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Biography:

Dr Georgina L Irish is an Australian Nephrologist currently working at The Royal Adelaide Hospital and Queen Elizabeth Hospital and in rural South Australia. She undertook medical school at The University of Adelaide and her nephrology training at The Royal Adelaide Hospital and Flinders Medical centre, before completing her training in Oxford in the United Kingdom.

Georgina is concurrently undertaking a PhD is on Decision making in Kidney transplantation. She will be using epidemiological registry data to help inform decisions around kidney transplantation to help patients and clinicians make the best individual decision about kidney transplantation.

Dr Jola Kapojos

Locations:

• Lyell McEwin Hospital
• Modbury Hospital
• Port Augusta Hospital

Dr Maleeka Ladhani

Location:

• Lyell McEwin Hospital

Biography:

Maleeka Ladhani (B Med Sci, MBBS, Dip Paeds, MPH, PhD, FRACP, FRACGP) is a general nephrologist who works primarily at the Lyell McEwin Hospital. She was trained in NSW and moved to SA in 2016. She has an interest in areas of need, inequity and obesity which are reflected in her research and practice.

Prof. Stephen McDonald — Senior Consultant Nephrology (CNARTS)

Locations:

• Royal Adelaide Hospital
• The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
• Hampstead Dialysis Centre
• Gawler Health Services
• Tanunda Hospital
• Whyalla Hospital
• Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands
• Darwin Hospital
• Alice Springs Hospital

Dr Lachlan McMichael 

Dr Lachlan McMichael (MBBS MMed(ClinEpi) FRACP) is a consultant nephrologist based at Royal Adelaide Hospital & provides outreach services to Mount Barker Hospital. He provides care to patients with all forms of kidney disease including acute glomerular disease, chronic kidney disease, dialysis, acute kidney transplantation and chronic post-kidney transplant care.

He completed medical school at The University of Adelaide and nephrology training at Royal Adelaide Hospital. He completed additional fellowships in general nephrology & kidney transplantation at the University of British Columbia Division of Nephrology in Vancouver, Canada. He is concurrently a PhD candidate at The University of Adelaide focusing on patient access to kidney transplantation.

Locations:
Royal Adelaide Hospital
Mount Barker Hospital

Prof. Chen Au Peh

Locations:

• Royal Adelaide Hospital
• Hampstead Dialysis Centre

Biography:

Dr Peh is a Consultant Renal Physician at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Adelaide. His main research interests include Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, ANCA-Associated Vasculitis and Membranous Nephropathy. He has been involved in several international clinical trials in ANCA-Associated Vasculitis including RITUXVAS, MYCYC, RITAZAREM and PEXIVAS. Results from these clinical trials have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine and the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases. They helped to convince the Australian Department of Health to approve the use of publicly-funded Rituximab for patients with ANCA-Associated Vasculitis.

From 2014-2018, Dr Peh was project leader of an Australian Government-funded foreign aid project in Myanmar (Burma) to improve the health outcomes of snakebite patients. In 5 years, his team helped Myanmar double its production of antivenom from 60,000 to 120,000 vials per year. Furthermore, nearly 100% of all antivenom produced in Myanmar now is lyophilised, which helps overcome the lack of cold chain storage. His team gathered evidence showing that the time interval between bite and the administration of antivenom increased the risk of developing kidney failure. Every hour of delay added to the risk of serious complications.

Assoc. Prof Nitesh Rao

Locations:

• Lyell McEwin Hospital
• Riverland General Hospital, Berri

Dr Bee Tan

Locations:

• Lyell McEwin Hospital
• Hampstead Dialysis Centre
• Port Pirie Hospital

Dr Alison Weightman

Locations:

• Broken Hill Base Hospital

Dr Chii Yeap

Locations:

• Royal Adelaide Hospital
• Hampstead Dialysis Centre
• Mount Gambier Health Service

Transplant and dialysis surgeons

Dr Shantanu Bhattacharjya (Director of Transplant Surgery and Surgery in Renal Failure)

Locations:

• Royal Adelaide Hospital
• The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
• Women’s and Children’s Hospital
• Flinders Medical Centre
• Port Pirie Hospital
• Port Augusta Hospital

Dr Santosh Olakkengil

Locations:

• Royal Adelaide Hospital
• The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
• Women's and Children's Hospital (renal transplant and vascular access)
• Flinders Medical Centre
• Port Augusta Hospital
• Whyalla Hospital
• Riverland General Hospital, Berri
• Alice Springs Hospital

Biography:

Dr Santosh Antony Olakkengil is a Senior Consultant Transplant surgeon at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and also offers dialysis access and general surgery at private hospitals in Adelaide and in SA Country Hospitals. He has been associated with Central Northern Adelaide Renal and Transplantation Service (CNARTS) since 2008. Dr Olakkengil has over 20 years of surgical expertise. His areas of interests are general surgery, surgeries for end stage renal disease that include dialysis access (AVF, CAPD), nephrectomies for polycystic kidney, laparoscopic donor nephrectomy & transplantation.

He has been in the forefront of minimally invasive surgery as part of the team that did Australia’s first single port laparoscopic donor nephrectomy. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons (FRACS) and has a Master’s in Minimally Invasive Surgery (University of Adelaide). Dr Olakkengil is also a fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS). He finished his training at St John’s Medical College Hospital in Bangalore, India.

He is a senior clinical lecturer at the University of Adelaide, is actively involved in the academic teaching of medical students and the fellows of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Dr Olakkengil has various publications to his credit and is currently deputy chair of transplant section of RACS. His patients trust his judgement and are comfortable in his care due to his patient-centred approach.

Dr Christine Russell

Locations:

• Royal Adelaide Hospital
• The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
• Women’s and Children’s Hospital
• Flinders Medical Centre
• Darwin Hospital
• Alice Springs Hospital

Vascular and dialysis surgeons

Dr David King (Head of Unit, Vascular Surgery)

Locations:

• Royal Adelaide Hospital

Dr Ewan Macaulay

Locations:

• Royal Adelaide Hospital