Dr Jayani Wickrematunga

Psychiatry

Contact details
Clinical interests
Addictions medicine - drug and alcohol
Anxiety disorders
Child and adolescent mental health
Mood disorders
Obsessive compulsive disorder
Perinatal mental health
Personality disorders
Psychotic disorders
Trauma
Hospital
Langmore
Services
Treats children
Telehealth consultations
Qualifications
MBBS
FRANZCP
MD
Exclusions
Adult ADHD
Forensic patients
Languages spoken other than English
Sinhalese

Dr Wickrematunga gained her MBBS qualifications to become a medical doctor in Sri Lanka and commenced post graduate studies in psychiatry in Sri Lanka. She completed a post graduate degree MD (Psych) in 2008 and undertook two years of advanced training in Sri Lanka.


Dr Wickrematunga came to Australia in March 2011 and worked as a senior registrar in psychiatry at North Western Mental Health – Melbourne Health until December 2014, after which she commenced employment as a psychiatrist at Latrobe Regional Hospital (LRH).


Dr Wickrematunga gained her Fellowship with the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (FRANZCP) in 2018 and has continued working as a consultant psychiatrist at LRH and in private practice.


She is an adjunct lecturer at Monash University, accredited for ECT and a trainer of registrars for RANZCP.


Special interests:



• Women’s mental health


• Mood disorders


• Treating culturally diverse people