Shikandhini Kanagasundrem

Shikandhini Kanagasundrem also professionally known as Shico Visuvanathan MBE is a British-Sri Lankan microbiologist. Her grandfather Vythialingam Sivalingam was the first professor of Parasitology of Sri Lanka.

Career Shikandhini pursued her primary education at the St. Bridget's Convent, Colombo and moved to the United Kingdom for higher studies. She pursued her higher studies in medicine field at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School in London. She specialised with medical microbiology at the University College Hospital, London and completed her Doctor of medicine in clinical microbiology. She became the director of Infection Prevention of Princess Alexandra Hospital Trust in 2003.