Associate Professor Kumara Mendis
Biography
Qualifications
- DMED University of Colombo
- MSc Erasmus University
- MBBS University of Colombo
Contact
| Email: | K.Mendis@westernsydney.edu.au |
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| Phone: | (02) 9685 9973 |
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| Location: | 2 Off Campus |
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Publications
Journal Articles
- Pathirana, T., Wang, Y., Martiny, F., Copp, T., Kumar, R., Mendis, K. and Tang, J. (2023), 'Perspectives from China, India and Sri Lanka on the drivers and potential solutions to overuse and overdiagnosis', BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine, vol 28, no 2 , pp 85 - 88.
- Perera, D., Withana, S., Mendis, K., Kasunjith, D., Jayathilaka, W. and Wickramasuriya, S. (2019), 'Evaluation of the undergraduate family medicine programme of Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya : quantitative and qualitative student feedback', BMC Medical Education, vol 19, no 1 .
- Bailey, J., Davies, C., McCrossin, T., Kiernan, M., Skinner, R., Steinbeck, K. and Mendis, K. (2018), 'Fit4YAMs : structuring a lifestyle intervention for rural overweight and obese young adult males using participatory design', Journal of Adolescent Health, vol 62, no 3 , pp 65 - 71.
- Mendis, K., Bailey, J. and McLean, R. (2015), 'Tracking Australian health and medical research expenditure with a PubMed bibliometric method', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, vol 39, no 3 , pp 227 - 231.
- Wong, K., Brown, A., Luscombe, G., Wong, S. and Mendis, K. (2015), 'Antibiotic use for Vibrio infections : important insights from surveillance data', BMC Infectious Diseases, vol 15, no 1 .
- Bailey, J., Mendis, K., Dutton, T., Stevens, W. and McCrossin, T. (2015), 'A decade of Rural Clinical School research : a PubMed review', Rural and Remote Health, vol 15, no 4 .
- Mendis, K., Greenhill, J., Walker, J., Bailey, J., Croft, A., Doyle, Z., McCrossin, T. and Stevens, W. (2015), '2014 Rural Clinical School Training and Support Program Snapshot survey', Rural and Remote Health, vol 15, no 4 .
- Mendis, K., Edwards, T., Stevens, W. and McCrossin, T. (2014), 'Bibliometric analysis on Australian rural health publications from 2006 to 2012', Australian Journal of Rural Health, vol 22, no 4 , pp 189 - 196.
- Mendis, K., Forster, T., Paxton, K., Hyland, K., Yelverton, J., McLean, R., Canalese, J., Brown, A. and Steinbeck, K. (2014), 'Large and forgotten in rural Australia : assessment, attitudes and possible approaches to losing weight in young adult males', BMC Public Health, vol 14, no 1 .
Conference Papers
- Mendis, K., Weerasooriya, T., Withana, S., Liyanage, P., Silva, A., Wickramasinghe, R. and Weerabaddana, C. (2019), 'Cloud-based open source primary care electronic patient record system for Sri Lankan citizens', National Information Technology Conference, Colombo, Sri Lanka.