Dr Yashna Rampursat is a graduate of theNelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of Kwa Zulu-Natal (UKZN) inDurban, South Africa. She completed her chemical pathology training at the NationalHealth laboratory services (NHLS) and UKZN, where she also served as a lecturer.After 8 years in the state pathology sector, and four years in privatepathology, she emigrated to Australia. She completed one year of supervisedtraining at Queensland Medical Laboratory (QML) and joined Laverty in 2025 afterobtaining the FRCPA qualification.

Her main fields of interest areendocrinology, paediatric clinical biochemistry and toxicology.