Medical Education, Pathology Education, Distance & Flexible Education, Tele-Pathology.

Dr. Shashidhar is a senior academic Pathologist working in teaching and research for over 30 years. His special interest is in medical pedagogy, rural medical education and technology in teaching. Recently he has been appointed as Adjunct professor of Pathology and Postgraduate examiner for research in medical education at Manipal University, India. He is research fellow at JCU Cairns Institute of Research and AITHM (Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine). He is member of several research teams. His recent research work is in molecular signals in macrophage function, carcinogenesis and diabetes in collaboration with diabetes research team at JCU, Townsville.

Experience with Problem Based Learning in MBBS course at Fiji School of Medicine Venkatesh M. Shashidhar, Joseph Flear, Neel Kamal Arora, Kamal Kishore and Sunita D. Pawar. Fiji Medical Journal Vol 1:2 2005. Main Author. The role of relaxed natural selection against colour blindness in producing extreme variation in X-chromosome photopigment gene number and sequence among individuals with normal colour vision [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 4(11), 53a, http://journalofvision.org/4/11/53/, doi:10.1167/4.11.53.Gunther, K. L., Bojar, J. A., Harrison, G. L. A., Shashidhar, V. M., Pawar, S. D., Neitz, J., & Neitz, M. (2004). Management of Obesity in the Elderly: Too much and Too Late?. RL.Kennedy, U.Malabu, M. Kazi, V. Shashidhar. The Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging. (2008 Accepted for Publication). Free fatty acid receptors: emerging targets for treatment of diabetes and its complications" Therapeutic Advances in Endocrinology and Metabolism. October 2010 vol. 1 no. 4 165-175. Teaching pathology via online digital microscopy: Positive learning outcomes for rurally based medical students. Aust. J. Rural Health (2011) 19, 45–51. Sundram Sivamalai, Shashidhar Venkatesh Murthy, Tarun Sen Gupta and Torres Woolley. School of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia. Hydroxyoctadecadienoic acids regulate apoptosis in human THP-1 cells in a PPARγ-dependent manner. (PMID:25330944) Vangaveti VN, Shashidhar VM, Rush C, Malabu UH, Rasalam RR, Collier F, Baune BT, Kennedy RL Lipids [2014, 49(12):1181-1192].