
Dr Guruprasad Nagaraj
MB BS, FACEM,FRCEM.
Dr Guruprasad Nagaraj is an Emergency Physician at Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
Other roles include:
- Conjoint Lecturer UNSW
- Snr Lecturer Uni of Sydney.
- Vice Chair, GEMSIG of International Federation of Emergency Medicine.
- Research Fellow Simpson Institute for Research.
- ILP and Honors Students supervisor, SouthWest Emergency Research Institute.
- Established Australia's First Geriatric Emergency Medicine Special Skills term.
Guru obtained his MBBS in India in 2002. He then undertook further training in the UK prior to moving to Australia in 2006.
He has been involved in the development of Geriatric Emergency Medicine in Australia and has set up first ever Geriatric Emergency Term in Australia at Hornsby Hospital.
Interests include Geriatric Emergency medicine, Medical education, International Emergency medicine, Simulation, Philosophy, Poetry, and Music.
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
Presently involved with studies on Burden of Pain, Music Therapy in Delirium, End of Life care discussion in ED.
Publications:
1: Nagaraj G, Hullick C, Arendts G, Burkett E, Hill KD, Carpenter CR. Avoiding
anchoring bias by moving beyond 'mechanical falls' in geriatric emergency
medicine. Emerg Med Australas. 2018 Aug 8. doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.13129. [Epub
ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 30091183.
2: Burkett E, Macdonald SP, Carpenter CR, Arendts G, Hullick C, Nagaraj G, Osborn
TM. Sepsis in the older person: The ravages of time and bacteria. Emerg Med
Australas. 2018 Apr;30(2):249-258. doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.12949. PubMed PMID:
29569846.
3: Arendts G, Burkett E, Hullick C, Carpenter CR, Nagaraj G, Visvanathan R.
Frailty, thy name is…. Emerg Med Australas. 2017 Dec;29(6):712-716. doi:
10.1111/1742-6723.12869. Epub 2017 Oct 3. PubMed PMID: 28971594.
4: Carpenter CR, Arendts G, Hullick C, Nagaraj G, Cooper Z, Burkett E. Major
trauma in the older patient: Evolving trauma care beyond management of bumps and
bruises. Emerg Med Australas. 2017 Aug;29(4):450-455. doi:
10.1111/1742-6723.12785. Epub 2017 Apr 28. Review. PubMed PMID: 28455850.
5: Hullick C, Carpenter CR, Critchlow R, Burkett E, Arendts G, Nagaraj G, Rosen
T. Abuse of the older person: Is this the case you missed last shift? Emerg Med
Australas. 2017 Apr;29(2):223-228. doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.12756. Epub 2017 Mar 8.
PubMed PMID: 28273679; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5612828.
6: Dinh MM, Muecke S, Berendsen Russell S, Chalkley D, Bein KJ, Muscatello D,
Nagaraj G, Paoloni R, Ivers R. Demand for Emergency Services Trends in New South
Wales Years 2010-2014 (DESTINY): Age and Clinical Factors Associated with
Ambulance Transportation to Emergency Departments. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2016
Nov-Dec;20(6):776-782. Epub 2016 May 23. PubMed PMID: 27215415.
7: Arendts G, Carpenter CR, Hullick C, Burkett E, Nagaraj G, Rogers IR. Approach
to death in the older emergency department patient. Emerg Med Australas. 2016
Dec;28(6):730-734. doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.12678. Epub 2016 Sep 29. Review. PubMed
PMID: 27681639.
8: Nagaraj G, Burkett E, Hullick C, Carpenter CR, Arendts G. Is delirium the
medical emergency we know least about? Emerg Med Australas. 2016 Aug;28(4):456-8.
doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.12639. Review. PubMed PMID: 27453406.
9: Nagaraj G, Chu M, Dinh M. Emergency clinician performed ultrasound:
availability, uses and credentialing in Australian emergency departments. Emerg
Med Australas. 2010 Aug;22(4):296-300. doi: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2010.01306.x.
PubMed PMID: 20636359.
My Research Supervision
ILP students.