L Gayani Tillekeratne
L Gayani Tillekeratne
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
Assistant Research Professor, Global Health
Prior to joining the DGHI faculty, Gayani Tillekeratne, MD, MSc, completed the Global Health Residency/Fellowship Pathway through DGHI's Hubert Yeargan Center for Global Health, a Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellowship, and a Master of Science in Global Health at Duke. Dr. Tillekeratne's work centers on identifying causes of acute febrile respiratory tract infections and using rapid diagnostics to improve antibiotic stewardship and decrease antimicrobial resistance in Sri Lanka. She received her medical degree from Duke University and completed her Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases training at the University of Pennsylvania.
Courses
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GLHLTH 777
Infectious Disease Epidemiology in Global Settings – Surveillance, Prevention, & Control
Projects
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Acute respiratory tract infections in southern Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
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Antibiotic-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in community-acquired urinary tract infections, southern Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
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Novel Diagnostics to Improve Antimicrobial Stewardship for Acute Respiratory Tract Infections in Resource-Limited Settings
Sri Lanka
Publications
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Vanderburg S, Wijayaratne G, Danthanarayana N, Jayamaha J, Piyasiri B, Halloluwa C, et al. Outbreak of severe acute respiratory infection in Southern Province, Sri Lanka in 2018: a cross-sectional study. Bmj Open. 2020 Nov 6;10(11):e040612.
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Shoff CJ, Townsend ML, Tillekeratne LG, Schulteis RD, Yarrington ME, Turner NA, et al. Improved empiric antibiotic prescribing for acute cystitis with use of local urinary antibiogram and clinical decision support system. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2020 Nov;41(11):1351–3.
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Mutucumarana CP, Bodinayake CK, Nagahawatte A, Devasiri V, Kurukulasooriya R, Anuradha T, et al. Geospatial analysis of dengue emergence in rural areas in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka. In: Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2020. p. 408–14.
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Tillekeratne LG, Suchindran S, Ko ER, Petzold EA, Bodinayake CK, Nagahawatte A, et al. Previously Derived Host Gene Expression Classifiers Identify Bacterial and Viral Etiologies of Acute Febrile Respiratory Illness in a South Asian Population. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2020 Jun;7(6):ofaa194.
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