Associate Professor Rex Prabhu is the Chief Medical Officer at Bendigo Health and LM Health Network. Previously he was the Executive Medical Director of Swan Hill District Health, Victoria for the last 6+ years. Prior to that, he was the Deputy Director of Medical Services at Manly and Mona Vale Hospitals and Clinical Superintendent at Westmead Hospital in Sydney.
He has been instrumental in setting up Victoria’s first end to end to end sub regional program for General Practitioner and rural generalist training in Swan Hill at a single location, starting with the establishment of a 3 year medical school program with the Charles Sturt Mallee Clinical School and post graduate pathways established to internship and successful programs for GP Registrars through to Fellowship of RACGP and ACRRM.
He was the recipient of the Distinguished service Award from ACRRM in 2023, National Health Award for excellence in rural health administration for his contributions to workforce building in Swan Hill and was awarded the Victorian Medical Specialist Award of the year at the 2023 Victorian Rural Health Awards for his contribution to advancing pathways of training and enhancing service delivery.
He has also developed a keen interest in the use of AI to assist in the enhancement medical workforce and developing solutions to strategically manage regional and rural medical workforce.
