Rajiv Jayasena
Research Support Manager ICT
Contact
Level 6, 520 Collins Street
Melbourne, Victoria 3000
Tel: 61 3 9023 0806
Mob: 0416 129 871
Fax: +61 3 9614 2650
Email
Themes
- Locally Managed Care
Projects
- Collaborative Care Cluster Australia (CCCA)
Science Area
- Service Computing
Biography
Rajiv Jayasena joined CSIRO's Australian E-Health Research Centre in 2010 to the role of Senior Project Manager for the Collaborative Care Cluster Australia (CCCA), which is a Victorian Science Agenda funded consortium of health service providers, industry and research partners.
Rajiv has over 18 years experience in medical research, including over 10 years experience in commercial industry and project management. He has held academic positions at Monash and Melbourne Universities. Making the transition from academia to industry, Rajiv joined CSL Limited in Parkville, Melbourne, where he worked for 10 years. At CSL he held several senior management positions, which included leading the Quality Development group, Business Operations Manager and Compliance and Improvements Manager - Australia. In these positions he was responsible for leading cross functional and international teams for globalisation of Australian vaccines; development and implementation of the quality strategy; managing technology transfers; harmonisation of quality systems to US FDA and TGA requirements; risk management and R&D. Rajiv also has expertise in conducting international multi centre studies for qualification/validation of test methods and managing multi centre clinical studies for registration of medical devices.
Rajiv has recently focused on operational excellence methodologies using Lean Six Sigma and lead improvement projects that resulted in increasing efficiencies, reliability and quality of manufactured products with significant cost savings.
Rajiv completed a Bachelor of Science with Honours in the field of immunology at Monash University. He completed a PhD in Medicine at the University of Melbourne in the field of neuroscience developing immunodiagnostics for the early detection of Alzheimer ’s disease. Rajiv has published research articles in peer review journals and held various academic scholarships and awards including The University of Melbourne Postgraduate Scholarship, VanCleef Roet Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship and the Alfred Research Award. He has a Diploma in Business from RMIT and professional qualifications in management of operational excellence (Black Belt certification in Lean Six Sigma).
Academic Qualifications
| 2008 | Lean Six Sigma, Black Belt Certification in Continuous Improvement Project Management |
| 2002 | Diploma in Business Management, RMIT Melbourne |
| 1997 | PhD (Medicine), The University of Melbourne, in the fields of Mental Health, Neuroscience & Immunology (Alzheimer's Disease) |
| 1992 | BSc (Honours) Monash University, in the field of Immunology and Biochemistry |
Top 10 Publications
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| Culvenor, JG; Henry, A; Hartmann, T; et al., Subcellular localization of the Alzheimer's disease amyloid precursor protein and derived polypeptides expressed in a recombinant yeast system, Amyloid-International Journal of Experimental and Clinical Investigation Volume: 5 Issue: 2 Pages: 79-89 Published: JUN 1998 |
| Jayasena, ULHR; Gribble, SK; McKenzie, A; et al., Identification of structural variations in the carboxyl terminus of Alzheimer's disease-associated beta A4[1-42] amyloid using a monoclonal antibody, Clinical and Experimental Immunology Volume: 124 Issue: 2 Pages: 297-305 Published: MAY 2001 |
| E. Pietrzykowski, K. Vandenberg, R. Hamilton, R. Jayasena and M. Pearse., Antigenic Variations of Coxiella Burnetii Defined by Monoclonal Antibodies. The Australian Society of Microbiology Conference, September 2001 |
| L. Kelly, R. Jayasena, V. J. Turnbull, R. Clark and E. Storey., Biochemical and Immunocytochemical Characterisation of Ataxin-2, The Society of Neuroscience USA, November 2000 |
| Amanda H. Tammar, Rajiv Jayasena, Bob Irving, Roberto Cappai, Colin L. Masters and John R. Underwood. Comparison of Antibodies Reactive with Amyloid, Proceedings of The Australian Neuroscience Society - 7th Annual meeting 1997 |
| S. K. Gribble, J. R. Underwood, R. Jayasena, N. Wilson and C. L. Masters., Detection of Amyloid Precursor Protein and Related Molecules in Alzheimer’s Disease. Proceedings of the 9th Congress of Immunology 1995 |