Dr Ram Ghimire is an experienced general physician and geriatrician who is highly passionate about managing adult as well as geriatric age group patients. He is personable, compassionate and reputed for his excellent communication skills and being empathic. He strongly believes in evidence-based medicine tailored to the individual patient’s need.
Dr Ghimire completed his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) from the reputed Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. He accumulated wealth of knowledge and experience working at various hospitals across Queensland, New south wales, Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory.
Dr Ghimire completed his Basic physician training at the Gold Coast University Hospital. He completed his subspeciality training program on general medicine and geriatrics through The Royal Darwin Hospital, The Wollongong Hospital and Liverpool Hospital. His training in various hospitals and exposure to different demographics ensured excellent clinical exposure in adult and geriatric medicine.
Dr Ghimire worked at Bowral hospital and Liverpool hospital in the early days of his specialist career and now spends significant amount of his time at the Campbelltown hospital and university of Western Sydney besides serving as a private geriatrician and general physician in the Macarthur area.
Besides consultations in English, he is fluent in Nepali and Hindi. Dr Ghimire enjoys gardening, reading books, trekking and traveling.
Current Appointments/Affiliations
Campbelltown Private Hospital
The George centre, Gregory Hills
Conjoint lecturer – University of Western Sydney
Various Residential aged care facility (visiting Geriatrician)
The Heart Group, Gregory Hills
Education and Qualifications
- Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (General Medicine and Geriatrics)
- Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu Nepal
Skills and Interests
- Comprehensive Geriatric assessment (aged >65 and above)
- Memory/Cognitive Assessment
- Behavioural and psychotic symptoms of dementia (BPSD)
- Polypharmacy and medication review
- Recurrent Falls
- Incontinence
- Advanced care planning
- Capacity assessment
- Perioperative care (Adult and Geriatric age group)
- Complex and chronic care assessments (Adult)
- Residential aged care facility resident reviews
Memberships
- Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP)
- Australia New Zealand society of Geriatric medicine (ANZSGM)
Research and Publications
1. Outcomes of older patients with hip fracture following introduction of enhanced weekend physiotherapy: comparison with ‘usual’ care, a Quality Improvement project.
2. Management of the Fracture Neck of femur patients above the age of 65 at the Gold coast health services
3. “Massive haemoptysis in a woman with left lower lobe pulmonary artery interruption-A rare clinical presentation
Sanjiwika L Wasgewatta 1, Subash S Heraganahally 1 2, Ram H Ghimire 1, Aijye Lim 3, Phillip Carson
Respirol Case Rep 2022 Jun 21;10(7):e0997. doi: 10.1002/rcr2.997. eCollection 2022 Jul.
4. Comparison and outcomes of emergency department presentations with respiratory disorders among Australian indigenous and non-indigenous patients.
Subash S. Heraganahally, Ram H. Ghimire, Timothy Howarth, Oshini M. Kankanamalage, Didier Palmer and Henrik Falhammar
Heraganahally et al. BMC Emergency Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-022-00570-3
5. Gender Differences in the Clinical and Polysomnographic Characteristics Among Australian Aboriginal Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Sumit Mehra , Ram H Ghimire , Joy J Mingi , Monica Hatch , Himanshu Garg , Robert Adams , Subash S Heraganahally
Nat Sci Sleep. 2020 Aug 24;12:593-602. doi: 10.2147/NSS.S258330. eCollection 2020.
6. Extended detection and isolation of Murray Valley encephalitis virus in whole blood and urine
Leon Caly, Natalie Davidson, Ram Ghimire, Brinthan Rajaratnam, Jonathan Marrow, Rob Baird, Ella M Meumann and Julian Druce
Med J Aust 2019; 211 (11): . || doi: 10.5694/mja2.50423, Published online: 9 December 2019
7. Management and survival of patients with leptomeningeal disease from breast cancer: a case series
Sophie Feng, Kate Roberts, Ram Ghimire, Jasotha Sanmugarajah
BREAST CANCER MANAGEMENT VOL. 6, NO. 1, 22 Nov 2017, https://doi.org/10.2217/bmt-2017-0004
8. Substance abuse among medical students in Kathmandu Valley
P Khanal, R H Ghimire, B Gautam, S K Dhungana, P Parajuli, A K Jaiswal, B Khanal
JNMA J Nepal Med Assoc. Oct-Dec 2010;50(180):267 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22049888
9. Acute Appendicitis in the Himalayas
RAM HARI Ghimire
British Medical JournalBMJ 2007; 334:1321 (23 June) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1895671/
10. A comparative Study of Acute Poisoning in Nepal at Tertiary and Secondary level hospital.
Ghimire, R. H., Sharma, S. P., & Pandey, K. R. (2004).
Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 43(153). https://doi.org/10.31729/jnma.473
11. A Retrospective Study of the changing trends of Acute poisoning cases at Tribhuvan university Teaching Hospital, Nepal between 1990-1992 and 2000-2002
Ghimire, Ram Hari; Sharma, Sharan Prakash; Pandey, Kushal Raj
Journal of Nepal Health Research Council, October 2003, Vol. 1, No. 3 page 38-41
Website: http://library.nhrc.gov.np:8080/nhrc/handle/123456789/383
