As a teaching-and-research (TR) academic, my professional development covers both pedagogical practice, and disciplinary research expertise. This enables me to be an effective and expert teacher to undergraduate, postgraduate students as well as professional colleagues as shown in examples below.

I developed my formal

1. Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians, London, UK, 2022
2. Fellowship of Higher Education Academy, United Kingdom, 2021
3. Foundations of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, UNSW Sydney, Australia, 2017
4. Graduate Certificate of Teaching in Higher Education, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka (Accredited by SEDA, UK), 2013

I have led several projects on generating evidence based recommendations for diagnosis and treatment of neglected tropical infections such as malaria, dengue, leptospirosis,

As the presiding member of human ethics at UNSW, I design and implement teaching activities on the topic to undergraduate, postgraduate students and committee members of review panels. 

In undergraduate teaching I designed a workshop using three case studies incorporating the principles of autonomy, benefience, non-malficience and justice to a cohort of third year medical