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Dr Yanushi Dullewe Wijeyeratne, BMBS, BMedSci (Hons), MRCP(UK), PhD is an NIHR Clinical Lecturer at St George's, University of London. She is a Senior Specialty Registrar in Cardiology and Fellow in Cardiac Electrophysiology and Implantable Cardiac Devices at St George's Hospital, London.
Dr Yanushi Dullewe Wijeyeratne was awarded the highly competitive NIHR Clinical Lectureship in Cardiology at St George’s, University of London in 2022. She is a Senior Specialty Registrar in Cardiology and Fellow in Cardiac Electrophysiology and Implantable Cardiac Devices at St George’s Hospital.
Dr Wijeyeratne graduated in Medicine from University of Nottingham in 2009. She is a former NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow (ACF) in Cardiology. Following her Academic Clinical Fellowship, she was awarded a Clinical Research Fellowship at St George’s, and recently completed her PhD in cardiac genetics and stem cell models of inherited cardiac conditions. Her work included investigating the influence of common genetic variants on disease phenotype and cardiac risk, and derivation of polygenic risk scores that can aid risk stratification in clinic.
Her areas of research include inherited cardiac arrhythmias, risk stratification and cardiac genetics.
2012-2015: NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship
2015-2019: St George's, University of London Clinical Research Training Fellowship
2022-Present: NIHR Clinical Lectureship
Other funding:
2023: European Heart Rhythm Association
2023: Academy of Medical Sciences
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