Tejaswini Arunachala Murthy

Teaching Strengths

Anaesthesiology Nutrition Intensive Care Academic research Simulation based learning

Tejaswini Arunachala Murthy

Adelaide Medical School

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Available For Media Comment.

Nutrition is the most inexpensive intervention that can possibly impact clinical outcomes. Imagine if death could be prevented just by ensuring provision of the right nutritional support while patients are critically unwell? Coming from a developing nation, India, Tej's aim is to look at cost effective interventions like nutritional support, that can impact clinical outcomes. Being a trained anaesthetist her research skills involve conduct of complex studies requiring emergency management of situations and studies requiring multidisciplinary involvement for successful conduct. Her clinical skills have always been admired by her peers while she handles even the most stressful resuscitation situations with utmost calm and reliable judgement. Fondly called the smiling doctor is always a delight to work with in a team as she takes over leadership with ease and friendliness. She claims her empathy as her biggest strength as she has learnt from her past personal health struggles involving ICU stay as a patient and as a caregiver. She is also an ICU trainee with the college of intensive care medicine and has advanced airway skills, communication skills including having successful organ donation conversations and skills required for effective management of all critically ill patients. She has over 18 yrs experience in intensive care practice along with a training in utilisation of nanotechnology in medicine, ALS, diploma in echocardiography, conducting telemedicine consults. She has been ALS 2 instructor and nursing educator at SAIMA and CALHN respectively. She has been selected for peer mentoring program by the university of adelaide and has mentored 2 PhD students, 3 masters' students and 2 medical students and also with the public education foundation and is happy to mentor candidates looking for support due to their diverse regional backgrounds. She moved to Australia in 2015 to further her career in intensive care. She taught with the ANU medical school as associate clinical lecturer while working as ICU registrar before moving to Adelaide in 2017. She completed full time PhD in acute care medicine specifically looking at intensive care nutrition in October 2022 all while going through several cycles of IVF and has been blessed with a baby daughter just before her PhD completion. She peer reviews for over 20 journals including Cochrane, AJCN, Clinical Nutrition, ESPEN etc and has been an invited grant assessor for NHMRC, MRFF funds. Resilience, positive outlook and perseverance are what she calls the secret of her success. Her studies involve understanding nutrient utilisation in health, factors affecting nutrient absorption and utilisation in intensive care patients, factors affecting and effective management of gastrointestinal dysfunction for better clinical outcomes in critically ill patients. 

My research involves exploring evidence based approaches to bring about changes in nutrient delivery that can have a positive impact on clinical outcomes in the critically ill. 

  • Appointments
    Date Position Institution name
    2025 - 2035 Peer reviewer Cochrane
    2024 - 2025 Invited grant assessor National Health and Medical Research Council
    2022 - ongoing Affiliate clinical lecturer University of Adelaide
    2020 - 2017 Associate clinical lecturer Australian National University Medical School
    2020 - ongoing ICU registrar The Canberra hospital
    2017 - 2022 ICU night senior registrar Central Adelaide Local Health Network

  • Awards and Achievements
    Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
    2019 Scholarship EASD TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIP EASD Spain 1200€
    2019 Scholarship SAICA GRANT SAICA Australia Upto 10000 AUD
    2019 Scholarship University of Adelaide travel grant University of Adelaide Australia 1000 AUD

  • Language Competencies
    Language Competency
    English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
    Hindi Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
    Kannada Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
    Sanskrit Can read, write and understand spoken
    Tamil Can speak and understand spoken

  • Education
    Date Institution name Country Title
    2018 - 2022 The University of Adelaide Australia PhD
    2011 - 2013 Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences India Post Graduate Diploma In Anaesthesiology and Intensive care medicine
    2002 - 2008 Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences India Bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery MBBS

  • Postgraduate Training
    Date Title Institution Country
    2013 Indian diploma in critical care medicine ISCCM India

  • Certifications
    Date Title Institution name Country
    2020 ALS 2 instructor SAIMA Australia
    2017 Core FDC certification Organ donation conversation Australia
    — Nanosensitisation program Nano science and technology consortium India
    — ALS Provider Australian Resuscitation Council Australia
    — RACEPLUS ECHO Napean institute Sydney -

  • Research Interests
    Anaesthesiology Intensive Care Medical and Health Sciences Nutritional Physiology Musculoskeletal Health Nutrition and Metabolic Health Translational Health Outcomes

Research support grant - RESTATIM Rs 60000

AMS Biomedicine publication award $500

SAICA Travel grant $10000

EASD travel grant $2000

University of Adelaide travel grant $1000 twice

RTP scholarship for PhD studies $28000 pa

Daws top up scholarship $5000 pa

Research work part of NHMRC protein kinetics grant

Mentor Anastomos

Editorial board member, Dove Press, Sage publications

Masters co-supervisor, MBiostatistics, UofA

Peer reviwer, Cochrane, AJCN

Invited grant assessor, NHMRC, MRFF

Eligible to supervise masters and PhD (as co-supervisor)

Affiliate clinical lecturer UofA

Associate clinical lecturer ANU

Mentor UofA and PEF

Honours supervisor CHAFB

  • Other Supervision Activities
    Date Role Research Topic Location Program Supervision Type Student Load Student Name
    2023 - 2025 Co-Supervisor University Research Project Adelaide University University Research Placement Other Part Time Andrew Chun
    2012 - 2013 Principal Supervisor HbA1c as an independent predictor of mortality in ICU Command Hospital Air Force Bangalore Diploma in anaesthesiology and intensive care Master Full Time Dr Srinivas

  • Mentoring
    Date Topic Location Name
    2025 - ongoing Snake bite management practices Adelaide University Myat Myat Thien
    2025 - ongoing Bachelors in nursing Adelaide University Kan Tang
    2025 - ongoing Psychology Student Adelaide University Sophie Louise Brice
    2024 - ongoing AMC and Post graduation aspirant Independent candidate Tishia Srinath
    2023 - 2025 Protein delivery and GI dysfunction Ramaiah Medical College Thejeswini Mahadevaiah
    2012 - ongoing Anaesthesia and intensive care Command Hospital Air Force Bangalore Dr ANUSHA
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