Biography

Dr Mahi Ranasinghe is a General Surgeon who graduated from the University of Colombo in 1993 with honours and completed surgical training in Sri Lanka. Dr Ranasinghe was Board certified as a specialist surgeon in Sri Lanka in 2002.

Since migrating to Australia in 2002, he has worked in Hervey Bay and Metro South Health in the capacity of staff surgeon. He obtained Australian fellowship in 2007 and is a credentialed upper and lower GI endoscopist.

Dr Ranasinghe’s surgical interests are broad, however he has special interests in laparoscopic bowel surgery. He is also interested in providing emergency surgical services and emergency endoscopy services to the district.

He takes a keen interest in surgical training and is an instructor for the RACS asset course. At any given time he has surgical registrars training under him.