Dr Kishan Pandithage Senior Lecturer Clinical Educator in Flinders NTMP and Senior Medical Educator with NT General Practice Education, has been awarded the 2018 Standing Strong Together Award, by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Faculty, of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.

This is a prestigious award that recognises Dr Pandithage’s significant support of the Indigenous General Practice registrar network in Australia and in particular his mentoring and teaching towards success for Indigenous registrars in attainment of Fellowship in General Practice. These are the specialist College assessments that lead to full recognition as Specialist General Practitioners. Dr Pandithage was nominated by the Indigenous doctors in this network.