About the author
Dr. Sanjiva Wijesinha MBBS (Ceylon) MSc (Oxford) FRCS FACS FRACGP
is a family physician and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He graduated from medical school in Sri Lanka, completed a research degree at Oxford University, trained as a surgeon and worked as a paediatric surgeon in Sri Lanka and Hong Kong before migrating to Australia and re-training as a family physician.
For over forty years he has been a writer of health and travel articles as well as short stories - initially for newspapers in Sri Lanka and subsequently for newspapers and magazines in Australia, Britain, Singapore, India, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka and the US.
He is the author of Health for Busy People, Live Happily Ever After, Health in These Times, Stories of the Silk Roads, Friends, Men's Health Matters, Not Our War and Strangers on the Camino