About Us
Professor Rukshen Weerasooriya
Professor Weerasooriya is a UWA graduate who completed cardiology training at Royal Perth Hospital. Rukshen commenced private atrial fibrillation ablation procedures in 2003 after returning from 2 years training overseas at the world’s leading centre for AF ablation – the Hopital Cardiologique du Haut Leveque in Bordeaux, France.
AF ablation was pioneered and subsequently developed for mainstream application by the cardiac electrophysiologists in Bordeaux.Rukshen is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at UWA and has maintained close links with his alma mater and he maintains a position as visiting scientist at the LYRIC Institute of advanced cardiac arrhythmia mapping in Bordeaux (www.ihu-liryc.fr).
Rukshen has sub-speciality training in all aspects of heart rhythm management, and in addition to performing catheter ablation procedures, the practice is a high-volume implanter of cardiac rhythm devices such as pacemakers and implanted defibrillators.
Cardiac Rhythm Diagnostics is operated and overseen by Professor Rukshen Weerasooriya with the support of a clinical, operations and technology team.