Dr Chathuri Gunasekera

MBBS(SL), PG Dip and MD in Medical Microbiology(SL), DipRCPath(UK),

PGDipMedEd(UK), FRSPH(UK), PG Dip in Gender & Women’s Studies(SL)

Head, Senior Lecturer, and Specialist in Microbiology

Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology,

Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Dr Gunasekera is a Senior Lecturer and the current Head of the Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. She has served for the Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, UK and the Medical School and Dental Institute of the University of Aberdeen.

She has several publications in academic journals, and numerous abstracts to her credit. She has peer-reviewed several journal papers. Her research interests are in bacteriology of deep-seated collections of pus, antimicrobial resistance and microbiome dynamics and systemic Candida infections/ other mycoses. She has won the President’s Award for Scientific Research (Sri Lanka National Research Council, for 2019/2020) and several prizes for oral and poster presentations.

In addition to her undergraduate and postgraduate teaching activities in Medical Microbiology, she serves as the Programme Coordinator of the PG Diploma in Gender & Health conducted by the faculty and continues with her passion and many activities related to Gender and Women’s Studies. She’s actively engaged in advancing the field of Medical Microbiology in Sri Lanka. She’s also a member of several professional medical organisations and still continues with the longstanding engagements in extra-curricular activities; public speaking, literary work and environmental activities.