Areas of expertise

Children's eye conditions including:

• Children's eye conditions including anophthalmia, microphthalmia and other congenital deformities of the eye and the face.
• Eyelid malposition/deformities including entropion, ectropion, Ptosis, coloboma, facial and eyelid scarring. 
• Excessive watering, malformation/obstruction of nasolacrimal duct (tear duct)
• Benign and malignant orbital tumours

Adult eye conditions including: 

• Aesthetic surgical procedures in adults: Botulinum toxin (Botox) injections for the aging changes in the face and eyes, brow-lift, upper eyelid and lower eyelid blepharoplasty, fat-transfer and augmentation of adnexal tissues.
• Malignancies involving the eye socket, orbit, eyelids and the face: Tumour excision and reconstruction of the orbit, lacrimal outflow system and other ocular adnexal carcinomas such as basal cell carcinomas, squamous cell carcinomas, sebaceous cell carcinomas etc.
• Benign ocular adnexal tumours (Neurofibromatosis, haemangiomas, schwannomas), cysts (chalazion cysts, cysts of Moll, sebaceous cysts) and skin changes.
• Infections of the orbit (orbital cellulitis), lacrimal apparatus (dacryocystitis), eyelids (blepharitis, pre-septal cellulitis), conjunctiva (conjunctivitis).
• Auto immune and Inflammatory diseases of the orbit (thyroid eye disease, orbital myositis, idiopathic orbital inflammation), Lacrimal glands (dacryoadenitis) and the eyelids (eczema, psoriasis, blepharitis).
• Dry eye/watery eye/tear outflow system obstructions.
• Eyelid malposition: Entropion, ectropion, ptosis (droopy eyelids).
• Trauma: Immediate, early and late treatment of ocular, orbital and facial trauma and trauma related complications.
• Neurological diseases affecting the eye and eyesight: Facial nerve palsy, blepharospasm, hemifacial spasm.
• Eye removal, eye socket reconstruction, ocular prosthesis and rehabilitation.

Qualifications and Professional memberships

• MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) - 2000
• MRCSEd (Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh) - 2007
• FRCOphth (Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (UK)) - 2013
• General Medical Council - Specialist Register since 2013

Medical & Surgical training

• Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom - Fellowship in orbital, lacrimal, oculoplastic (adnexal) surgery
• Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom - Fellowship in Oculoplastic, lacrimal and orbital (adnexal) surgery
  North-western Deanery Ophthalmology training programme, United Kingdom - Advanced Specialist training in Ophthalmology
• ​East Midlands Deanery, United Kingdom - Basic Specialist training in Ophthalmology
• Moorfields Eye Centre at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK - Senior House Officer in Ophthalmology
• Moorfields Eye Centre at Croydon University Hospital NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom - Senior House Officer in Ophthalmology
• National Eye Hospital of Sri Lanka- Senior House Officer in Ophthalmology
• University of Colombo, Sri Lanka - Undergraduate medical education (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery)

Research interest / experience:

• Congenital and acquired anophthalmia, microphthalmia and orbital malformation.
• Ocular adnexal malignancies and benign tumours
• Facial nerve palsy and rehabilitation
• Orbital, ocular adnexal and facial reconstructive surgery
• Congenital/childhood eye infections in children
• Congenital and acquired anophthalmia, microphthalmia and orbital malformation. 
• Ocular adnexal malignancies and benign tumours
• Facial nerve palsy and rehabilitation
• Orbital, ocular adnexal and facial reconstructive surgery
• Congenital/childhood eye infections in children
• Congenital malformations/developmental delays in the lacrimal outflow system
• Dry eye syndromes