Chamarika Weerasekera

Chamarika is a medical doctor, and a lecturer attached to the Department of Parasitology of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura in Sri Lanka. She is currently at the final stages of her specialty training in Medical Parasitology and is undergoing an overseas training at the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand and her main research interests are on the soil transmitted helminthiases, zoonotic parasitic diseases, and parasitic diseases among the immunocompromised.