About Sambavan
Sambavan is a surgical resident at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney with a particular interest in robotic and paediatric surgery. Having grown up in Wee Waa, Guyra and Armidale in rural New South Wales, and having trained as a doctor in Alice Springs, Coffs Harbour and Sydney, he has seen first-hand how unevenly specialist surgical care reaches Australians. Sambavan will undertake an MRes in Medical Robotics at Imperial College London, where he will research how robotic technologies in surgery can be implemented to bridge the gap between the specialist expertise concentrated in metropolitan cities with patients in rural and remote Australia. He hopes to return to Australia with the skills to help lead the national conversation on the future of surgical robotics.
