Academic Status
College of Medicine and Public Health
Jeya is a transplant hepatologist and clincal researcher attached to the heptology and liver transplant medicine unit at Flinders Medical Centre. Armed with a decade long experience of clinical ,academic and research experience from a renowned tertiary medical centre in India, she migrated to Australia in 2015. After obtaining fellowship of the Royal Australian College of Physicians in 2016, she went onto do PhD on The models of care in management of liver cirrhosis in 2020.She is avidly pursuing multiple clincial research projects Iin cirrhosis including cirrhotic cardiomyopathy, acute on chronic liver failure and the role of long term abdominal drains in refractory ascites and supervision of research higher degree students. She has 55 peer reviewed publications to her credit. Her current research interest is investigation into structural, functional and clinical correlation of cirrhotic cardiomyopathy for which she is putting together a national team of collaborators from hepatology and cardiology.
MBBS-1991
MD-1993
DM-2000
FRACP-2016
PhD -2020
· Recipient of the Publication Award for Ph.D. Student 2019 by the College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, South Australia.
Principal investigator for a multicentre prospective study on Global Myocardial Function in Decompensated Cirrhosis and Its Clinical Significance
Principal Supervisor for a researc higher degree student at the College of Medicine and Public Health, FMRI on Cardiac dysfucntion in liver cirrhosis
Supervisor for a study onPrevalence, Risk Factors and Prognosis of Acute on Chronic Liver Failure in South Australian Liver Transplant Unit
Prinicpal investigator for apilot study titled Long-Term Abdominal Drains in Refractory Ascites due to End-Stage Liver Disease
Investigator in the study on the Qualitative Analysis of Patient and Nurses’ Experiences on Adelaide Liver Failure Trial with Prof.Wigg
Investigator in the research on the Validation of Cirrhosis Knowledge Questionnaire in Adelaide Liver Failure Trial with Prof.Wigg
Associate Investigator in the research on Predicting Decompensation in Compensated Cirrhosis Using Non-invasive Markers of Portal Hypertension Using Liver Extracellular Vesicles with A/Prof. Andew Rolland and Kate Muller.
Jeya is employed as a staff specialist in the Hepatology and Liver Transplant Medicine Unit , Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology.