Dilushi Wijayaratne graduated from the Faculty of Medicine Colombo in 2010 with First Class Honours. She completed her MD (Medicine) in 2016 and was board certified as a nephrologist in 2020. She joined the Department of Clinical Medicine as a lecturer in 2020 and serves as an honorary consultant nephrologist at the National hospital of Sri Lanka and the National institute of nephrology, Dialysis and Transplant.