Associate Professor Renuka Shanmugalingam is a Nephrologist and Obstetric Medicine Physician at Liverpool and Bankstown Hospitals. She has an active clinical and research interest in renal obstetric medicine and general nephrology.

She completed her PhD in hypertensives disorders of pregnancy and has been awarded 2 national and 1 international awards for the studies conducted as part of her PhD.

Renuka has a strong passion for teaching and is often an invited speaker for both national and international conferences. She is also the clinical sub-dean for Western Sydney University’s Bankstown Clinical School.

Currently, Renuka is leading the development of SOMANZ’s Hypertension in Pregnancy Guidelines (2023) with NHMRC and is an Executive Council Member of SOMANZ (Society of Obstetric Medicine Australia and New Zealand).

As part of her involvement in SOMANZ and her passion for teaching, A/Prof Shanmugalingam lead the organisation of SOMANZ’s inaugural Virtual Obstetric Medicine Update Course in 2023.

In her time away from work, A/Prof Shanmugalingam enjoys spending time building memories (and keeping up) with her amazing husband, incredibly energetic daughter, and full-of-life miniature dachshund.

Renuka is fluent in Malay and Tamil.