Dinesh was the first quadriplegic medical intern in Queensland and the second person to graduate medical school with quadriplegia in Australia. Dinesh is a doctor, lawyer, disability advocate, and researcher.

Halfway through medical school, he was involved in a motor vehicle accident that caused a cervical spinal cord injury. Dinesh has completed an Advanced Clerkship in Radiology at the Harvard University.

As a result of his injury and experiences, Dinesh has been an advocate for inclusivity. He is a founding member of Doctors with Disabilities Australia.

Dinesh works in the emergency department at the Gold Coast University Hospital. He is a senior lecturer at the Griffith University and adjunct research fellow at the Menzies Health Institute of Queensland. Dinesh is a researcher in spinal cord injury. He is a doctor for the Gold Coast Titans physical disability rugby team. Dinesh is a senior advisor to the Disability Royal Commission.

He is an ambassador to the Human Rights Commission’s Includeability program. He was a 2021 International Day of People with Disability ambassador.

Dinesh was the Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service’s Junior Doctor of the Year in 2018. He was awarded the

Medal of the Order of Australia in 2019. He was the third Australian to be awarded a Henry Viscardi Achievement

Award. He was the 2021 Griffith University Young Alumnus of the Year. Dinesh was the Queensland Australian of the

Year for 2021.

Books and Other Media
Books

● The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku

● Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday

● The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday

● The Diamond Cutter by Geshe Michael Roach

● The Little Book of Stoicism by Jonas Salzgeber

● Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz

● Better by Atul Gawande

● The Creative Destruction of Medicine by Eric Topol

● The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

● Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This! By Luke Sullivan

● Bits and pieces of old writings by Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, and Epictetus

● Purple Cow by Seth Godin

Music
● Juicy by Notorious BIG

Poetry
● Invictus

ER MD at Gold Coast University Hospital in Queensland, Australia

Founding member of Doctors with Disabilities Australia

Member of the Ambassador Council at the Hopkins Centre

Member of the Australian Medical Association Queensland’s Council of Doctors in Training

Ambassador for Physical Disability Australia

Ambassador to the IncludeAbility project of the Australian Human Rights Commission.[69]