1966-67andnbsp;andnbsp; andnbsp;Pre-University Examination; University of Madras, India
1969-74andnbsp;andnbsp; andnbsp;M.B.B.S Karnatak University, India
1995-96andnbsp;andnbsp; andnbsp;Master of Public Health (MPH) Glasgow University (MP Shah Award for best student from non-EEC member country)
2004andnbsp;andnbsp; andnbsp;PhD (Medicine, Community based science) Glasgow University
Professional Experience:andnbsp;
Yoga trained as a doctor from 1969-74 and was awarded MBBS by the Karnatak University in India. After practising as a GP in Malaysia he went to Lebanon to work as a volunteer working in Refugee Camps (training hospital doctors) with a London based charity (Medical Aid for Palestinians, MAP) from 1990 to 95 where he met Mary (who was training the nurses). They returned to Glasgow in 1995 where he completed a Master of Public Health (MPH) and went on to do a PhD (Medicine, Community based science) in 2004 from Glasgow University. He worked as a Research Manager with the Greater Glasgow Health Board (GGHB) from 1998. There within the Glasgow Centre for Population Health (GCPH) department he was a Project Manager, in 2004, analysing the great health divide in the city of Glasgow entitled Psychosocial and Biological Determinants of Ill health (pSoBid).andnbsp;
He then moved to Ireland in 2008, where he was the co-ordinator of the inaugural Masters in Public Health (MPH) programme in the University College Cork (UCC) until 2010. He was also a part-time PBL Tutor from 2008 in the School of Medicine in University of Limerick. From 2010 to 2016 he was Senior Lecturer in Public Health in School of Medicine. From 2016, Associate Professorandnbsp;Nathan is Senior Lecturer in Medical Education (PBL).
Professional Memberships:andnbsp;
1984andnbsp;andnbsp; andnbsp;Life Member of Malaysian Medical Association
1998andnbsp;andnbsp; andnbsp;Member of Society for Social Medicine UK
2006-11andnbsp;andnbsp; andnbsp;Honorary Clinical Teacher with the Division of Community Based Sciences in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Glasgow
2009 andnbsp;andnbsp; andnbsp;Honorary Member of the Faculty of Public Health UK
Research Interests:andnbsp;
Yoga s research interests are in the psychosocial and biological determinants of illness, Health Needs Assessment (HNA), Refugees health, Palliative care, Health inequalities, Deprivation, Health Impact Assessment (HIA), Quantitative and; qualitative methods and medical education (the PBL methods and; its assessments).