Sasala Wickramasinghe: Principal Clinical Scientist

Science and Technology/Health and Medicine


Sasala works as Principal Clinical Scientist and Deputy Director for Prenatal Screening Service for Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust.

  Find out more about her roles on this page.

  1. download

  2. OIP (9)

  3. OST-330


Sasala kindly answered these questions in her video below:

  1. Please can you describe what you do for both roles – Principal Clinical Scientist and Deputy Director for Prenatal Screening?
  2. Are you an active scientist?
  3. What interested you in working in this field?
  4. What qualifications do you need? 
  5. What are your duties and responsibilities?
  6. How long did it take you to achieve such high positions?
  7. What aspects of your role do you find the most challenging and what bits are the most rewarding?
  8. Why did you decide to work for the NHS?
  9. Are these jobs also education based?
  10. What is your hopes for the future for the prenatal screening service?