Ravi Savarirayan MBBS, FRACP, HGSA, MD

Ravi is a consultant clinical geneticist at the Victorian Clinical Genetics Services, as well as Professor and Research Group Leader (Skeletal Biology and Disease) at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. Ravi received his MBBS from the University of Adelaide in 1990 and became a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 1997. He was certified as a specialist in clinical genetics from the Human Genetics Society of Australasia in 1998 and received his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Melbourne in 2004, for his thesis “Clinical and molecular studies in the osteochondrodysplasias.”

Ravi is a founding member of the Skeletal Dysplasia Management Consortium and has been the Chair of the Specialist Advisory Committee in Clinical Genetics, Royal Australasian College of Physicians since 2009. He was president of the International Skeletal Dysplasia Society from 2009 to 2011 and has been an invited member of several International Working Committees on Constitutional Diseases of Bone. Ravi's primary research focus is on inherited disorders of the skeleton causing short stature, arthritis and osteoporosis. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles, collaborating with peers from over 30 countries, and is on the editorial board of Human Mutation, European Journal of Human Genetics, American Journal of Medical Genetics and Journal of Medical Genetics.