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Dr Hasantha Gunasekera

Senior Lecturer
Paediatrics & Child Health, Children's Hospital, Westmead

C29 - Children's Hospital Westmead
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

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Curriculum vitae

Biographical details

General Paediatrician in Sydney Children's Hospitals Network (Westmead) [More...]

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Research interests

General Paediatrics

Indigenous health

Refugee health

Otitis media

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Teaching areas

Paediatric teaching throughout the Sydney Medical Program (lectures, bedside tutorials, clinial reasoning sessions, procedural skills, ethics forum, Indigenous health forum and research).

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Current national competitive grants*

2012

SEARCH: better evidence, better health for urban Aboriginal children
Craig J, Banks E, Eades S, D'Este C, Bailey S, Redman S, Williamson A, Pope S, Parter C, Gunasekera H
NHMRC Partnership Projects ($1,395,759 over 3 years)

* Grants administered through the University of Sydney

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Keywords

Epidemiology; Refugee & immigrant health

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Publications

2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2007

2012

   
  • Gray, K., Wood, N., Gunasekera, H., Sheikh, M., Hazelton, B., Barzi, F., Isaacs, D. (2012), Vitamin D and Tuberculosis Status in Refugee Children. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 31(5), 521-523. [Abstract]
  • Rosenkranz, S., Abbott, P., Reath, J., Gunasekera, H., Hu, W. (2012), Promoting diagnostic accuracy in general practitioner management of otitis media in children: findings from a multimodal, interactive workshop on tympanometry and pneumatic otoscopy. Quality in Primary Care. 20(4), 275-285. [Abstract]

2011

   
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  • Sheikh, M., Wang, S., Pal, A., Macintyre, C., Wood, N., Gunesekera, H. (2011), Vitamin D deficiency in refugee children from conflict zones. Journal of immigrant and minority health / Center for Minority Public Health. 13(1), 87-93. [Abstract]

2010

   
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  • Crogan, J., Gunasekera, H., Wood, N., Sheikh, M., Isaacs, D. (2010), Management of Old World Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Refugee Children. The Pediatric infectious disease journal. 29(4), 357-9. [Abstract]

2009

   
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  • Gunasekera, H., O'Connor, T., Vijayasekaran, S., Del Mar, C. (2009), Primary care management of otitis media among Australian children. The Medical Journal of Australia. 191(9), S55-S59. [Abstract]
  • Morris, P., Richmond, P., Lehmann, D., Leach, A., Gunasekera, H., Coates, H. (2009), New horizons: otitis media research in Australia. The Medical Journal of Australia. 191(9 Suppl), S73-S77. [Abstract]
  • Gunasekera, H., Morris, P., McIntyre, P., Craig, J. (2009), Management of children with otitis media: a summary of evidence from recent systematic reviews. Journal of paediatrics and child health. 45(10), 554-562. [Abstract]
  • Sheikh, M., Pal, A., Wang, S., MacIntyre, C., Wood, N., Isaacs, D., Gunasekera, H., Raman, S., Hale, K., Howell, A. (2009), The epidemiology of health conditions of newly arrived refugee children: a review of patients attending a specialist health clinic in Sydney. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. 45(9), 509-513. [Abstract]
  • Gunasekera, H., Morris, P., Daniels, J., Couzos, S., Craig, J. (2009), Otitis media in Aboriginal children: the discordance between burden of illness and access to services in rural/remote and urban Australia. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. 45(7-8), 425-430. [Abstract]
  • Gunasekera, H., Morris, P., Daniels, J., Couzos, S., Craig, J. (2009), Management of children with otitis media: a survey of Australian Aboriginal Medical Service practitioners. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. 45(7-8), 457-463. [Abstract]

2007

   
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  • Gunasekera, H., Knox, S., Morris, P., Britt, H., McIntyre, P., Craig, J. (2007), The spectrum and management of otitis media in Australian indigenous and nonindigenous children: a national study. The Pediatric infectious disease journal. 26(8), 689-692. [Abstract]
  • Patradoon-Ho, P., Gunasekera, H. (2007), ADHD: a stimulating debate for young paediatricians. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. , 196. [Abstract]