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Dr. Yoga Rabindranath is a Senior Lecturer in General Practice at the Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia. He earned his PhD in General Practice from Monash University in 2022, an MBA from Victoria University in 2012, and an MBBS from Manipal University College Malaysia in 2005. Before joining Monash, he served as a General Practitioner with the Ministry of Health Malaysia for 15 years. He founded the Primary Care Research Initiative And Methods Education (PRIMED) network in 2010, leading it until 2020 to foster cross-disciplinary primary care research. His PhD research developed a comprehensive self-management behavioural model for individuals with type 2 diabetes. From 2019 to 2024, he spearheaded a project designing algorithms for managing common clinical conditions and edited the evidence-based handbook Screen, Diagnose, Manage and Monitor: A GP Primer to Common Clinical Problems published by Springer-Nature in 2025, authoring chapters on topics such as acute and chronic back pain, acute appendicitis, acute pancreatitis, acute vision loss, and alcoholic liver disease.

In 2025, Dr. Rabindranath founded Full Circle Solutions, a multidisciplinary partnership focused on digital health, preventive medicine, and general practice. His current research emphasizes preventive health, including the MIND-FUL initiative for digital mental health, the IBM-DM project on non-communicable diseases, behavioural change, and self-management profiling. He holds the position of Asia-Pacific Representative for the WONCA Working Party for Research and is a member of the WONCA Special Interest Group on Non-communicable Diseases since 2021. Editorial contributions include Editor-in-Chief roles for Rapid Review Infectious Diseases (2025) and Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism (2024), as well as board memberships for Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology and Journal of Primary Care and Community Health. Notable awards encompass the Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners (2019), Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine Best Publication Award (2019), Excellent Educator - Semester 1 (2023), and grants including the Early Career Research Grant (2020) and a Ministry of Health grant (2018). With 85 research outputs, his work significantly impacts primary care research and education.