Dr Shehara (Sunny) Gunasekara
Old Age & General Psychiatry

Dr Shehara (Sunny) Gunasekara is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and has a subspecialty in psychogeriatrics. He undertook his medical degree at Monash University and completed his postgraduate training in Adelaide. He has worked in psychiatry for over 10 years. He has managed a wide range of psychiatric conditions, including mood disorders, psychotic disorders, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and neurocognitive disorders, in both inpatient and outpatient settings.

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Following his service in public hospitals and outpatient clinics, Dr Gunasekara has been practising telepsychiatry, managing general psychiatry patients, providing assessments for medical reports many different patient groups

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He also holds a Certificate in Psychiatric Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides, 5th Edition) and a Certificate in Psychiatric Impairment Rating Scale.

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Dr Gunasekara is a firm believer in the importance of collaborative care and maintains that working as a team with the patient and their family is crucial in the practice of psychiatry—and, more broadly, in medicine.