Dr Mahendra Perera is a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and a Fellow of the Australasian College.  He also holds a Fellowship of the Chapter of Addiction Medicine in the College of Physicians.

His MBBS is from Sri Lanka and has been in Australia since 1992.  He is now doing locum work in different parts of Australia. He has experience in managing adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) He is also in Near Death Experiences.  He is a biologically oriented psychiatrist, a researcher with publications in peer-reviewed journals, Principal Editor of  “Making Sense of Near Death Experiences: a handbook for clinicians” and an Honorary Senior Fellow of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne.