Dr. Ishan Gunawardene is the Chief of Staff Elect/Hospitalist Medical Director at the Health Care District’s rural, acute care teaching hospital, Lakeside Medical Center. He is board certified in internal medicine.
Dr. Gunawardene attended St. Georges University School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies and completed his internal medicine residency at Coney Island Hospital, an affiliate of SUNY in Brooklyn, NY. He is a member of the Palm Beach Medical Society, American Medical Association and American College of Physicians.
During his more than 25-year medical career, Dr. Gunawardene served as a staff physician at medical clinics in Arkansas and Florida, including West Palm Beach and Wellington. As a volunteer preceptor for the Wellington Regional Medical Center Residency Program, he won the Golden Apple Award for best teacher three times. He also taught as an adjunct clinical associate professor of internal medicine at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine.
