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Australian doctor reflects on move to Rochester amid pandemic By – Emily Cutts   Source:-postbulletin Dr. Sarah Arachchi moved with her family in mid-December for a one-in-a-lifetime fellowship opportunity at Mayo Clinic for her husband, Dr. Abhinav Vasudevan. Making the decision to uproot your life and move thousands of miles away from home is never easy. Add young children and a raging pandemic, and, well, it just became harder. But Dr. Sarah Arachchi and her husband, Dr. Abhinav Vasudevan, and their two sons, 5-year-old Milin and 2-year-old Rishaan, did just that last month. They packed their bags and left their coastal Australian city, hopped on a plane (or two), and arrived in Rochester. Dr. Vasudevan had been accepted for Mayo Clinic‘s prestigious inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) fellowship. He was originally scheduled to start in June 2020, but pushed the program’s start date back six months, and the family arrived just before ...