Hasantha Gunasekera is a Staff Specialist General Paediatrician at Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (Westmead). His clinical interests include working with disadvantaged populations, including: Indigenous children; refugee; asylum seeker children; and other disadvantaged children in western Sydney. He has a decade of experience as a paediatrician and has worked in urban and rural settings, in primary healthcare and specialist tertiary hospitals across Australia.
His publications are as follows:
Gunasekera, H., Kilham, H. (2015). In the beginning, there was general paediatrics.. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 51(1), 48-53.
Paxton, G., Tosif, S., Graham, H., Smith, A., Beverley, C., Standish, J., McCloskey, K., Ferguson, G., Isaacs, D., Gunasekera, H., Marais, B., Britton, P., Elliott, E., Raman, S., et al (2015). Perspective: 'The forgotten children: National inquiry into children in immigration detention (2014)'. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 51(4), 365-368.
Gunasekera, H., Tefuarani, N., Kilalang, C., Amini, J., Sobi, K., Vuvu, J., Duke, T. (2014). A day on the paediatric wards in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 50(6), 494-495.
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