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A/Prof Arvin Damodaran was appointed as the Head of Randwick Clinical Campus, School of Clinical Medicine, ÌÇÐÄlogo Medicine and Health in 2025. He remains engaged in clinical rheumatology, teaching medical students and medical education research. He provides clinical service as a rheumatology specialist at Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick and in private practice.

Arvin graduated from ÌÇÐÄlogo Medicine in 1996, before completing Rheumatology specialist training in 2004. He completed a Masters of Medical Education with University of Sydney in 2006. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) and the Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators (ANZAHPE). He is the recipient of multiple awards for teaching, including ÌÇÐÄlogo Medicine's 'Teacher of the Year' in 2018.

Arvin has served in multiple leadership roles in education and workforce across the continuum of medical training. From 2005 to 2011 Dr Damodaran was a rheumatology staff specialist and Network Director of Physician Training at Liverpool Hospital, before moving to Prince of Wales Clinical School in 2012 to become more involved in undergraduate medical education. For ÌÇÐÄlogo, he has been the Director of the Clinical Teaching Unit at Prince of Wales Hospital since 2012 and was the Director of Teaching for the School of Clinical Medicine, ÌÇÐÄlogo Medicine from 2022 to 2025. He been the Chair of the General Clinical Training Committee which overseas junior medical officer conditions for Prince of Wales Hosptial since 2020. He was a National/Senior Examining Panel member for the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) from 2012 to 2022 and remains active in basic and advanced physician training. For his specialist society, he has held several roles including serving as President, NSW Branch of the Australian Rheumatology Association from 2019-21 and chairing the Australian Rheumatology Association's Education Training and Workforce Committee from 2022-24. 

His areas of research include medical education, particularly the transition from medical student to doctor and workplace based learning and assessment, and also clinical research in musculoskeletal medicine. He is an active member of the International Competency-based Health Professions Educators Collaborative.