Dr David Kiran Fernandes is the head of the Department of Renal medicine, Central Australia. He is an alumni of the St John’s Medical College, Bangalore where he finished his pre graduate and post graduate courses in general Medicine. Dr Fernandes went on to specialise in Renal Medicine and arrived in Alice Springs in the summer of 2007 as a senior registrar following which he earned his FRACP degree. His interests include haemodialysis and interventional nephrology.