ProfessorHasantha Gunasekera

MBBS DCH MIPH (Hons) FRACP PhD

• Associate Editor, Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
• General Paediatrician, Sydney Children's Hospitals Network (Westmead)
• Board member, Riverina Medical & Dental Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation
• Board member, Treasurer, Academy of Child and Adolescent Health
• Chair, University Buddhist Education Foundation Trust

I am a Clinical Academic with the Clinical School at The Children's Hospital at Westmead (CHW), which is a tertiary children's hospital with over one million patient encounters annually. As an Education academic, we cater for 500 to 750 medical students through CHW each year.

My passions include teaching medical students, paediatric trainees, Diploma, Masters and Fellowship candidates. My research focus is the healthcare of priority population children, including refugee and First Nations health, specifically middle ear disease. However, I also have research projects across the breadth of general paediatrics from Kawasaki disease to chronic lung disease. I have supervised several students to their first publications as first authors and love introducing students to the joy of caring for children and adding to the evidence how best to care for them.