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Rajvinder Singh

Northern Adelaide Local Health Network, Gawler Health Service & Calvary Central Districts Hospitals, SA, Adelaide University

Research areas: Medicine · Oncology · Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection · Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes · Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment

ORCID iD 0000-0001-9116-6054
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Rajvinder Singh is a Professor of Medicine with the University of Adelaide and the Director of Gastroenterology at the Lyell McEwin & Modbury Hospitals, South Australia. Professor Singh is an internationally renowned Endoscopist.

To date, he has published a total of 162 peer reviewed papers and 11 book chapters including being a chief editor of 5 textbooks. He has a h index of 46. He has been successful in obtaining close to $AUD 3,000,000 in grants cumulatively including grants from the Cancer Council and Cancer Australia to further investigate the utility of novel endoscopic imaging techniques in the detection of dysplasia and early cancer in Barrett’s Oesophagus. In 2015, work on the investigation of the utility of serum biomarkers for colon cancer was selected as the top 10 best medical research initiatives in the country by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC, Australia). In 2019, work on Artificial Intelligence in the diagnosis of colorectal polyps was selected as 1 of 3 nominees for the Minister’s Innovation Award.

He is actively involved in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students. Further testament to this resulted in Teaching Awards at the Lyell McEwin Hospital, Australia in 2008 and 2009. He is also frequently invited to conduct basic and advanced endoscopy workshops having participated in more than 200 workshops/symposiums. He has had speaking engagements and ‘live’ endoscopy demonstrations around the world including in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Korea, India, Singapore, New Zealand, Indonesia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar, UAE, Bangladesh, Ukraine, Brazil and the Philippines amongst other countries.

He is an Editorial Board member of Clinical Endoscopy and was a past Editorial Board member of Digestive Endoscopy, Endoscopy and Endoscopy International Open. He is a committee member of the Standards of Practice and Publications committee with the World Endoscopy Organisation (WEO). He was the past International committee member of the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) and was tasked by the ASGE with organising the first joint ASGE-Australia program for the Digestive Diseases Week (DDW) in 2016 and again in 2017, 2019 and 2020. He was a Councillor with the Gastroenterological Endoscopic Society of Australia (GESA) and past chair of the Australian Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Association (AGEA).

Professor Singh’s interest include Endoscopic diagnosis of early cancer in the entire gastro intestinal tract including diagnosing diseases in the oesophagus, stomach, duodenum, biliary tree and colon using various novel Advanced Mucosal Imaging (including AI) tools. Early diagnosis leads to removal of these lesions /polyps using different minimally invasive interventional strategies which Professor Singh performs. This has led to not only significantly better outcomes, but also less hospitalisation for patients.

Employment

  • Northern Adelaide Local Health Network Director of Gastroenterology; Senior Consultant Gastroenterologist ; Interventional Endoscopist
  • Gawler Health Service & Calvary Central Districts Hospitals, SA Visiting Gastroenterologist
  • Adelaide University Professor of Medicine

Education

Education history is unavailable.

Projects & Funding

  • Evaluation of dynamic clot formation fibrinolytic activity in Cold Snare Endoscopic Mucosal Resection 2020 SA Blood Management Council
    2020 - Present
  • Thrombelastometry (ROTEM) in acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage (AUGH): an implementation study SA Blood Management Council
    2020 - 2021
  • The Human ‘Gutome’ Trial 2019 - ongoing: an intestinal organoid system for high throughput screening, identification and validation CSIRO
    2019 - Present
  • Automated Characterisation of Colon Polyps using Deep Learning Models Health Research Fund
    2018 - 2020
  • Dynamic functional clot formation in patients undergoing Endoscopic Mucosal Resection SA Blood Management Council
    2017 - 2018
  • Thrombelastometry (ROTEM) in acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage (AUGH) A pilot study SA Blood Management Council
    2017 - 2019
  • BUPA Health Foundation Grant Bupa Health Foundation
    2013 - 2016
  • Cancer Council/Cancer Australia Priority-driven Collaborative Cancer Research Scheme Cancer Council ACT
    2011 - 2012

Publications (164)