Meet the expert...
Paresh Dawda
Director and Principal at Prestantia Health

Paresh has a portfolio of roles as a GP, academic, educator and consultant. He is the Director and Principal of an innovative outreach primary care service as well as a technology enabled general practice, Next Practice Deakin. He is the Deputy Chair for the RACGP’s Expert Committee on Quality Care. He has academic affiliations and is Editor-in-Chief of BMJ’s Integrated Healthcare Journal. He undertakes consultancy and has developed and designed leadership, quality and patient safety programmes for the NHS and general practice organisational development initiatives for a number of PHNs across Australia. He has a proven track record of achievements, has spoken at national and international conferences, acted as adviser on a number of Commonwealth committees as well as jurisdictional health committees and is a GP Consultant Adviser at the NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation and eHealth. The golden thread uniting his broad interests is a passion for person-centred care.