After serving for over twenty years as an army doctor and a university teacher, he retired as a medical officer in the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps at the end of 2020 and from his post of Clinical Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Monash University in Melbourne at the end of 2022.
He graduated from medical school in Sri Lanka, completed a research degree at Oxford University as a Commonwealth scholar, trained as a surgeon and worked as a paediatric surgeon in Sri Lanka and Hong Kong before migrating to Australia and re-training as a family physician.
For the past forty years he has been writing health and travel articles – initially for newspapers in Sri Lanka and subsequently for newspapers and magazines in Australia, Britain, Singapore, India, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka and the US.
He currently writes a regular monthly column for the magazine Lanka Monthly Digest and the weekly newspaper Sunday Times.

He is the author of Health for Busy People, Live Happily Ever After, Health in these Times, Stories of the Silk Roads, Friends, Not Our War, Tales from my Island and Strangers on the Camino.
The last four books– Not Our War, Friends, Tales from my Island and Strangers on the Camino – are available as eBooks from amazon.com

Strangers on the Camino is available as a paperback from Amazon.com

Not Our War and Strangers on the Camino are also available as paperbacks by post directly from the author.

Contact: sanjivasw@gmail.com