Associate Professor Shamasunder Acharya graduated from India and completed advanced training in Endocrinology and General Medicine in the UK.

After serving the National Health Service UK for 10 years, Sham moved to Newcastle in 2009. He is currently the Director of Greater Newcastle Diabetes services and the clinical lead for Diabetes Alliance, Hunter New England Health. He works as a senior staff specialist at John Hunter hospital. He holds a conjoint Associate Professor appointment with the University of Newcastle.

Sham is a dedicated endocrinologist whose work has led to significantly improved outcomes for people with diabetes. In the Alliance Diabetes Integration Project, Sham and his team are integrating specialist teams with GPs through patient case conferences to educate GPs about diabetes management. This has been a huge success and team has already integrated 115 out of 314 practices in our health district. In addition, diabetes master classes developed and delivered by Sham and his team have been very popular and more than 30% of GP work force have participated in the educational series. Sham has also set up an integrated diabetes and endocrine certificate course in India in conjunction with overseas faculty. For his efforts, he received the ‘staff member of the year 2016’ at HNE LHD and the same year he received the excellence award from NSW Premier for Diabetes Alliance integration work. He has supervised many research projects and has over 60 national and international publications.

Sham will be offering consultative services across Diabetes and Endocrinology. His clinical areas of expertise include all aspects of diabetes care including insulin pump therapy, diabetic pregnancy, type 1 diabetes, and type 2 diabetes, general endocrinology, pituitary, thyroid disorders and antenatal endocrinology.

Starting in February 2021, Dr Sham will be working out of the Dolphin Suites at Forster Private Hospital once per month.