Lesley Navaratne
Job title
Consultant in HIV and Genito-Urinary Medicine
Service
Sexual Health
Special interests and treatments
Sexual Health, HIV and contraception, including HIV care in women and in prisons, genital dermatology and management of recurrent sexual health infections.
About
Dr Lesley Navaratne qualified in 1992 from The London Hospital Medical School and has been working in sexual health since 1995.
She completed her specialist training in genito-urinary medicine and HIV at St Thomas’ Hospital, London and has been a consultant in the Trust's Rubin Clinic since 2010.
As Clinical Lead for Sexual Health her main interest is in providing care for HIV-positive patients as part of a multidisciplinary team in the hospital and within local prisons.
She also has a special interest in management of recurrent genital infections and genital dermatology.
Dr Navaratne has actively promoted chlamydia screening and HIV testing through outreach campaigns in prisons, army barracks and educational colleges.
More recently she has been Clinical Lead for West Kent Integrated Sexual Health Service (WKISH) providing contraception as well as sexual health and HIV services. WKISH brings services together to support better patient care through extending services into the community, longer hours of access and development of multi skilled and trained staff.
Dr Navaratne is involved in medical education at the Trust and participates regularly in general practice educational programmes.
She is on the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV register as a STI Foundation course director as well as an STI assessment lead and intermediate competency trainer.
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