Dr Sanjiva Wijesinha

(Colombo Sri lanka)

Associate Professor Sanjiva Wijesinha MBBS MSc FRCS FACS FRACGP graduated from medical school in Colombo, served in the Sri Lankan army, completed a research degree at Oxford University, trained as a surgeon and worked as a paediatric surgeon in Sri Lanka and Hong Kong before moving to Australia in 1996. He re-trained as a family physician in Australia and now works as a general practitioner in addition to being an Associate Professor in the school of primary health care at Monash University medical school.

For the past thirty years he has been writing health and travel articles - initially for newspapers in Sri Lanka and subsequently for newspapers and magazines in Australia, Britain, Singapore, India, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka and the US.

He is the author of Friends, Health for Busy People, Live Happily Ever After, Health in these Times, Stories of the Silk Roads.

Read Sanjiva Wijesinha's many articles on Health, Travel, Cricket, History, religion etc at Sanjiva at Suite 101

See his book Friends