Tel: 905-522-1155, ext. 3499
E-mail: weerasek@mcmaster.ca

Relevant Education Background and Qualifications
Dr. Priyanthy Weerasekera graduated from the McMaster Undergraduate M.D. in 1985 .Since then she has done extensive work in training psychiatry residents, psychology students, and other allied health professionals in various psychiatric disorders, and in particular Anxiety Disorders. She has spent the last two years in the Faculty Development Program supervised by Dr. Richard Swinson in the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at St. Joseph’s Hospital Dr. Weerasekera has a particular interest in the treatment of anxiety-disorders, the covariance between mood and obsessive-compulsive symptoms in mood disorders, obsessive-compulsive symptoms in post-partum depression, integrative treatments in social phobia, and pharmacological treatments in social phobia.

Relevant Research, Professional or Community Experience
Dr. Weerasekera is an active member of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at St. Joseph’s Hospital and is currently a co-investigator in five different research grants on anxiety disorders. She is actively involved in research projects such as Integration of panic management strategies to the cognitive-behavioural group treatment of social phobia, and double-blind, placebo-controlled, study of flexible dose of Venlafaxine ER in adult outpatients with Generalized Social Anxiety Disorders. She has also presented various papers on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders at contuining medical educational events.

Relevant Publications
Dr. Weerasekera has published a book and other publications on educating various health professionals in psychiatric disorders with an emphasis on anxiety disorders.
Weerasekera P. Multiperspective Case Formulation: A Step Towards Treatment Integration. Melbourne, Fla, 1996, Krieger Publishing.

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