ProfessorHasantha Gunasekera
Professor
Faculty of Medicine and Health
LEARNING & TEACHING SUMMARy
Child and Adolescent Health Block and Year 2 Back to Basics Child and Adolescent Health teaching. Paediatric teaching throughout the Sydney Medical Program (MD projects, lectures, bedside tutorials, clinical reasoning sessions, procedural skills, ethics forum, Indigenous health forum and research).
Higher Degree Research supervision:
Primary supervisor
PhD awarded: Dr Stuart Haggie- determinants of severity in childhood pneumonia
PhD awarded: Jack DeLAcy- social determinants of health among urban Aboriginal children, developmental screening and speech and language delays
MPhil (deferred):Dr Irene Chuah
Co-supervising
PhD candidate (UNSW): Kate Gonski- BPD CHROME at home (Broncho-pulmonary dysplasia continuous heart rate & oxygen monitoring evaluation)
PhD candidate (USYD): Tony Lian- Drumbeat.ai: Artificial intelligence to triage ear disease in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in rural and remote Australia
PhD candidate (UNSW): Isabella Ludbrook: Aboriginal ear disease
Masters supervision:
Masters of Psychology (Research treatise):
David Lui- validation of Child Trauma Screening Questionnaire among children seeking asylum and refugee backgrounds; &
Isabella Priestley- systematic review of mental health findings for children in immigration detention