Rate My Professor Manori Amarasekera

Dr. Manori Amarasekera is a Senior Lecturer at Curtin Medical School, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University. She is an experienced teaching academic and medical educator with over 15 years of expertise in the design and delivery of medical programs. Her qualifications include MBBS, MPhil, PhD from the University of Western Australia, and Graduate Certificate in Health Professional Education. Her career began as a Lecturer in the Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, from March 2005 to February 2011. She completed her PhD at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Australia, from February 2011 to February 2015, under Professor Susan Prescott. From 2016 to 2021, she served at the School of Medicine Fremantle, The University of Notre Dame Australia, including as Preclinical Curriculum Coordinator.

Dr. Amarasekera's research specializations include epigenetics, allergic diseases, allergens, immune response, clinical immunology, asthma, allergy diagnosis, allergic sensitization, and inflammation, particularly the role of early life nutrition in immune programming and allergies. Key publications are 'Epigenome-wide analysis of neonatal CD4+ T-cell DNA methylation sites potentially affected by maternal fish oil supplementation' (2014), 'The role of PKCζ in cord blood T-cell maturation towards Th1 cytokine profile and its epigenetic regulation by fish oil' (2017), 'Genome-wide DNA methylation profiling identifies a folate-sensitive region of differential methylation upstream of ZFP57-imprinting regulator in humans' (2017), 'Reviewing the preclinical curriculum in a Problem Based Learning driven medical program: challenges and strategies' (2019), 'Nutrition in early life, immune-programming and allergies: The role of Epigenetics' (2013), and 'Prevalence of childhood atopic diseases in the Western Province of Sri Lanka' (2010). Her 16 publications have garnered 545 citations, influencing pediatric immunology and medical education. She supports academics in developing best-practice medical education skills.