Dr Guru Iyngkaran

Dr Guru Iyngkaran is a Gastroenterologist based at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He has been a visiting specialist at the Royal Darwin and Darwin Private Hospitals since 2009 where he provides inpatient, outpatient and endoscopic services.

After graduating from the University of Adelaide, he completed his specialist training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. He moved to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 2009 to undertake a PhD in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and currently is part of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease service at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Along with Dr Edmund Tse and Dr Suresh Sivanesan, he has set up the Gastroenterology Department at the Royal Darwin Hospital and is active in promoting this service as well as conducting research in the Northern Territory in collaboration with CSIRO and the Royal Melbourne Hospital.

His other areas of interests are bowel cancer, functional bowel disease and liver disease.