Associate Professor Rex Prabhu is currently serving as the Executive Medical Director of Swan Hill District Health, Victoria for the last 5+ years. He was previously working as the Clinical Superintendent at Westmead Hospital and Deputy Director of Medical Services at Manly and Mona Vale Hospitals in Sydney. He is a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators and has postgraduate qualifications in public health, health services management and occupational health and safety.
He has a keen interest and is passionate about growing the next generation of medical workforce and in developing the medical workforce by innovation through new models of care and establishing new pathways of training for both undergraduates through to postgraduate and fellowed GP’s. He has a strategic mindset and the ability to inspire medical practitioners to achieve high levels of performance, while driving accountability to care.
He has been instrumental in setting up Victoria’s first end to end to end program for General Practitioner and rural generalist training in Swan Hill at a single location, starting with the establishment of a 3-year medical school program with the Charles Sturt Mallee Clinical School and post graduate pathways established to internship and successful programs for GP Registrars through to Fellowship of RACGP and ACRRM.
He was the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from ACRRM in 2023, National Health Award for excellence in rural health administration for his contributions to workforce building in Swan Hill and was awarded the Victorian Medical Specialist Award of the year at the 2023 Victorian Rural Health Awards for his contribution to advancing pathways of training and enhancing service delivery.
