Suranga Weerasooriya

Dr Suranga Weerasooriya is a CTCA accredited specialist with extensive experience in Cardiac CT imaging (CTCA and CAC). He is part of the Advara HeartCare CTCA team, providing streamlined cardiac care services in Adelaide.

Special clinical interests in heart failure, infective endocarditis, cardiac masses, chest pain management and ischaemia evaluation.

About Dr Suranga Weerasooriya

Dr Suranga Weerasooriya is a senior cardiologist and multimodality cardiac imager with expertise in advanced cardiovascular imaging and complex cardiac assessment. His imaging expertise includes complex transthoracic echocardiography, exercise and dobutamine stress echocardiography, transoesophageal echocardiography, cardiac CT and coronary CT angiography (CTCA), cardiac MRI, nuclear cardiology, and cardiac PET imaging.

Dr Weerasooriya completed CTCA training at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney and has held Level A CTCA accreditation since 2015. He further advanced his cardiac MRI expertise through fellowship training at University College London and Barts Heart Centre, United Kingdom, and holds Fellowship of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (FSCMR).

He holds MBBS, MSc, FRACP and FAANMS qualifications and maintains professional memberships with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP), Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ), Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR), Australasian Association of Nuclear Medicine Specialists (AANMS), and Australian and New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine (ANZSNM).

Dr Weerasooriya is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Adelaide and previously held a Senior Lecturer appointment within the College of Medicine and Dentistry at James Cook University. He also served as Clinical Lead for Heart Failure at Townsville University Hospital.

Dr Weerasooriya is fluent in English and Sinhalese.

Dr Weerasooriya is committed to delivering evidence-based, patient-centred cardiovascular care with a strong emphasis on advanced imaging to guide diagnosis and treatment.

Publications

• The role of biomarkers for coronary artery disease detection in an Australian rapid access Chest pain assessment clinic Journal of clinical medicine 1 Jan 2026.
• Telephone consultations for cardiac outpatients during COVID-19—A review of acceptability and impact. Heart, Lung and Circulation, Vol. 30 Supplement S292, 2021.
• Ischaemic vs non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy outcomes from heart failure service in North Queensland. Heart, Lung and Circulation, Vol. 29 Supplement S94, November 2020.
• Outcomes of Indigenous patients with heart failure in North Queensland. Heart, Lung and Circulation, Vol. 29 Supplement S99, November 2020.
• Efficacy with use of ultrasound enhancing agents at the Townsville Hospital. Heart, Lung and Circulation, Vol. 29 Supplement S184, November 2020.
• Surgery for rheumatic heart disease: A Townsville hospital experience. Heart, Lung and Circulation, Vol. 25 Supplement S297, August 2016.
• A case of mitral annular disjunction presenting with ventricular arrhythmia. Heart, Lung and Circulation, Vol. 29 Supplement S122–S123, November 2020.
• Takotsubo cardiomyopathy mimicking ST-elevation myocardial infarction secondary to nebulised adrenaline for upper airway obstruction. Heart, Lung and Circulation, Vol. 29 Supplement S112–S113, November 2020.
• Aortitis and aortic valvulitis from autoimmune non-necrotising vasculitis. Heart, Lung and Circulation, Vol. 29 Supplement S162–S163, November 2020.
• Prediction of outcomes in infective endocarditis in a tertiary centre – retrospective study (submitted for publication).
• Incidence of familial hypercholesterolaemia in a patient cohort admitted to The Townsville University Hospital coronary care unit and cardiology ward (data collection completed).
• Incidence of peripheral artery disease in a cohort of patients in the tertiary cardiac unit (ongoing).
• Incidence of low attenuating coronary plaque on CT coronary angiography (ongoing).
• Case of exuberant lipomatous hypertrophy in the setting of narrow complex tachycardia with diagnostic and management challenges. American Journal of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Diseases, May 2020.
• Falsely raised gradients after TAVR obtained with a non-imaging probe due to brachiocephalic stenosis. Cardiovascular Imaging Case Reports, 2020.
• Atrial thrombus mimicking Ewing’s sarcoma. Cardiovascular Imaging Case Reports, 2019 (Weerasooriya et al.).
• Giant left main aneurysm: A rare finding in a patient with chest pain. Heart, Lung and Circulation, Jan 2018.
• Ankylosing spondylitis and anti-phospholipid syndrome resulting in non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis: Challenges in valvular management. Heart, Lung and Circulation, Jan 2018.
• Incidental extra-cardiac findings on cardiac MR in a tertiary hospital. CSANZ poster presentation, 2017.
• Extracardiac findings in coronary CT angiograms in a tertiary hospital. Heart, Lung and Circulation, Aug 2016.
• Surgery for rheumatic heart disease in a regional Australian centre: not an uncommon procedure. IACTS 2016, Oral presentation, Lucknow, India.
• Splenic infarction in a patient with aortic valve replacement who underwent reversal of warfarin using prothrombinex due to upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Medical Journal of Australia, Aug 2015.
• Utility of intravascular ultrasound and its immediate impact on decision making for patients undergoing coronary intervention at a tertiary referral centre. Heart, Lung and Circulation, Vol. 24 Supplement S254–S255, 2015.
• Case study: SPECT lung VQ maximum intensity projection imaging to highlight perfusion defects. SPECTlung.com.
• Poster presentation, Townsville Health Research Week – Valvular surgeries in patients with rheumatic heart disease, review in a tertiary centre and comparison with national data.
• Incidence of triple vessel disease (balanced ischaemia) resulting in a negative myocardial perfusion study: Local experience. Townsville Health Research Week.
• Incidence of triple vessel disease (balanced ischaemia) resulting in a negative myocardial perfusion study. Annals of ACTM, October 2013.
• Predictive value of myocardial perfusion imaging: Poster presentation, 2014.
• The prognostic value of normal myocardial perfusion studies: Local experience. Annals of the ACTM, Vol. 15, No. 3, Oct 2014.
• False positive iodine uptake in a renal cyst: Value of SPECT/CT. Gamma Gazette, March 2013.
• Hot spots in the lungs on a PET scan with no structural abnormality. Gamma Gazette, November 2012.
• Lung perfusion scan using 99mTc tin-fluoride colloid: A comparison with 99mTc MAA.
• Assessment of vascular graft infection using 99mTc-colloid labelled white cell scans, single centre retrospective analysis. Oral presentation at the ANZSNM 2012.
• Assessment of vascular graft infection using 99mTc-colloid labelled white cell scans: Retrospective analysis. Internal Medicine Journal, 2012; 42 (suppl.3): 1-17.
• Non-invasive investigation of chronic stable angina – A practical overview for medical practitioners. Med J of Malaysia, Vol 67, No 2, April 2012.

Professional Memberships

• Fellow in Society of cardiac Magnetic Resonance (FSCMR)
• Fellow in Australasian college of Physicians (FRACP) Cardiology
• Fellow in Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP)
• Fellow in Australasian Association of Nuclear Medicine Specialists (FAANMS)