Faculty of Allied Health Sciences
Senior Lecturer, Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, University of Peradeniya, June 2019 – present
Research Associate/Fellow, Institute for Health Policy, Colombo, July 2013 – May 2019
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, 2017 – 2019
Lecturer (Probationary), Department of Science and Technology, Uva Wellassa University, Sri Lanka (July 2007 - March 2009)
Project Officer, Health Action International Asia-Pacific (HAIAP), September 2004 – July 2007
Arizona Board of Regents Graduate Research Grant, University of Arizona, 2012 – 2013
Award for Academic Excellence – Pharmaceutical Economics, Policy and Outcomes Program, College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, 2012
The William and Betty Milleson Fink Scholarship Award, College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, 2011 – 2012
Senaka Bibile Gold Medal in Pharmacology, University of Colombo, 2003
The Gulamhusain A. J. Noorbhai Gold Medal for Pharmacy, University of Colombo, 2003
Scholarship for Academic Excellence, University of Colombo, 2000 – 2003
Member, Pharmaceutical Society of Sri Lanka (PSSL)
Perera, Prasadini N, Armstrong, Edward P, Sherill, Duane L, Skrepnek, Grant H, “Acute Exacerbations of COPD in the U.S.: Inpatient Burden and Predictors of Costs and Mortality,” Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, 9,2: 131-41, Apr. 2012.
Larkey, Linda K, Herman, Patricia M, Roe, Denise J, Garcia, Francisco, Lopez, Ana Maria, Gonzalez, Julie, Perera, Prasadini N, Saboda, Kathylynn, “A Cancer Screening Intervention for Underserved Latina Women by Lay Educators,” Journal of Women’s Health (Larchmt), 21,5: 557-66. May 2012.
Perera, Prasadini N, Guy, Mignonne C, Sweaney, Ashley M, Boesen, Kevin P, “Evaluation of Provider Responses to a Pharmacist Run Medication Therapy Management Program,” Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy, 17,5: 345-354, Jun. 2011.
Perera, Prasadini N, Lamabadusuriya, Sanath P, Pathirana, Walisinghe, “Evaluation of Prescription Compliance and Medication Accuracy in the Professorial Pediatric Unit at the Lady Ridgeway Hospital, Colombo,” Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health, 33: 73-77, 2004.
Co-Investigator, Sri Lanka Health and Aging Survey (SLHAS) (2015-2019). Grant awarded to the Institute for Health Policy, Sri Lanka by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF r4d grant 400640_160374), National Science Foundation, Sri Lanka (RPHS/2016/DTM/01) and Institute for Health Policy, Sri Lanka (PIRF-201501)