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Janaka de Silva

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Janaka de Silva
Born
Colombo, Sri Lanka
NationalitySri Lankan
EducationRoyal College, Colombo
University of Colombo MBBS MD
University of Oxford DPhil
OccupationPhysician
TitleVidya Jyothi
Parent(s)P. T. De Silva, Kusuma de Silva (née Weerasekera)

Janaka de Silva FRCP FNASSL is a Sri Lankan physician and academic. He is Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of Kelaniya.[1][2]

Janaka de Silva was educated at Royal College, Colombo and holds degrees from the universities of Colombo and Oxford (Pembroke College).[3] He had his higher specialist clinical training at the John Radcliffe Hospital.

De Silva was Professor and Chair of Medicine at the University of Kelaniya from 1996-2022. In 1997 he succeeded Carlo Fonseka as Dean of Medicine, a post he held for nine years.[4] He was also a member of the University Grants Commission from 2008-2011, and Director of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine (PGIM), University of Colombo from 2014-2020.[5] Before becoming its Director he chaired a number of boards in the PGIM[6] where he and colleagues established the first formal training programme for gastroenterologists in Sri Lanka. Together with Kemal Deen and a few others he pioneered setting up of the liver transplant service at the Colombo North Teaching Hospital.[7]

De Silva’s most influential contributions to research stemmed from his abiding interest in health problems prevalent in Sri Lanka.[8] He was Chairman of the National Research Council from 2013-2019.[9] He has held several editorial appointments[10][11] and served on committees in health and research organizations including the WHO, Wellcome Trust and the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).[12][13][14][15][16]

He was President of the Ceylon College of Physicians in 2004, twenty years after his father, P. T. de Silva.[17] In addition to several awards and fellowships from academic and professional bodies,[18][19] de Silva was conferred an honorary DSc by his university, and the national titular honour Vidya Jyothi - Sri Lanka's highest honor for science.[20][15]

References

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  1. ^ "Prof Hithanadura Janaka De Silva". Archived from the original on 23 August 2019. Retrieved 17 April 2011.
  2. ^ Those deadly bites
  3. ^ http://www.wingate.org.uk/pdf/complete_record_of_wingate_scholars.pdf , Previous awards to Wingate Scholars accessed 29 May 2011
  4. ^ "Past Deans".
  5. ^ "PGIM Oration 2019 – Call for applications".
  6. ^ http://www.cmb.ac.lk/pgim/merc/newsletter25.pdf Archived 4 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine, Staff news—New Board of Management of Postgraduate Institute of Medicine
  7. ^ "Trailblazing liver transplant service has now blossomed to meet a vital need by Kumudini Hettiarachchi The Sunday Times Sunday February 19, 2012". sundaytimes.lk. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
  8. ^ "HJ de silva".
  9. ^ "Former Chairmen". National Research Council: Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 26 March 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  10. ^ http://www.slma.lk/enwiki/static/council.php Archived 5 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine Sri Lanka Medical Association Council 2011 accessed 27 May 2011
  11. ^ "PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal".
  12. ^ "l SACR Governance". Archived from the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
  13. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 March 2018. Retrieved 1 March 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  14. ^ http://www.tropmedres.ac/_asset/file/moru-strategic-plan-2010-2015.pdf [dead link‍]
  15. ^ a b [1][permanent dead link‍]
  16. ^ Guidelines for the management of snakebites. WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia. August 2016. hdl:10665/249547. ISBN 9789290225300.
  17. ^ "Past Presidents | Ceylon College of Physicians (CCP)".
  18. ^ "Past Presidents | Ceylon College of Physicians (CCP)".
  19. ^ "Directory- D - National Academy of Sciences - Sri Lanka". Archived from the original on 27 September 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  20. ^ "Vidyajyothi Prof Janaka - Department of Medicine". Archived from the original on 27 September 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
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