Rate My Professor Yogavijayan Kandasamy

Dr Yogavijayan Kandasamy serves as a Conjoint Associate Lecturer in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Newcastle, where he is also a Conjoint Research Fellow. He earned his MBBS from the University of Malaya, Malaysia in 1995, followed by a Masters in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Newcastle between 2006 and 2007, and a PhD in Neonatology from the same institution between 2008 and 2013. Kandasamy holds specialist registration in General Paediatrics and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine with the Medical Board of Australia. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP), the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) (FRCP), and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (UK) (FRCPCH). Currently, he works as a Senior Neonatal Paediatrician at a tertiary perinatal centre in Townsville, Queensland, and holds an Adjunct Professor position in the Medical School at James Cook University.

His research specializations encompass neonatal medicine, particularly the impact of prematurity on renal and retinal development in neonates, as well as neonatal health among Indigenous populations. Kandasamy has led significant NHMRC-funded projects, including a 2014 Project Grant worth $888,098 to investigate kidney growth in premature and low birth-weight infants, and a 2019 Project Grant of $1,602,929 to examine the relationship between maternal health and infant renal development and function. Notable publications include 'An Exploratory Review on the Potential of Artificial Intelligence for Early Detection of Acute Kidney Injury in Preterm Neonates' (Diagnostics, 2023), 'Machine learning for understanding and predicting neurodevelopmental outcomes in premature infants: a systematic review' (Pediatric Research, 2023), 'The impact of smoking and nicotine exposure during pregnancy on fetal nephrogenesis: a systematic review' (Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, 2023), and 'Kidney growth following preterm birth: evaluation with renal parenchyma ultrasonography' (Pediatric Research, 2023). He contributes to the field as a reviewer for NHMRC grants, advisor to the Queensland Neonatal Advisory Group, and member of the Paediatric Research Committee for the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.