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 Hospital 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 LIRYC Institute of advanced cardiac arrhythmia mapping in Bordeaux. 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.

He now leads Heart Rhythm Clinic, a private medical practice in Nedlands specialising in the management of cardiac electrical disorders – particularly atrial fibrillation. In 2018 Rukshen became the first to offer the HyCASA procedure (Hybrid Catheter Ablation and Surgical Ablation) in Australia.

On behalf of his family Rukshen has established the UWA Weerasooriya Family Fairway Medical Scholarship to encourage and support graduates of UWA’s Fairway program to study medicine at UWA. UWA’s Fairway program is an admission entry pathway and comprehensive support program for students completing Year 12 under challenging circumstances and provides academic, financial and personal support.