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 | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Nationality | Sri Lankan |
| Education | Royal College, Colombo University of Colombo MBBS MD University of Oxford DPhil |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Title | Vidya Jyothi |
| Parent(s) | P. T. De Silva, Kusuma de Silva (née Weerasekera) |
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]
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- ^ "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.
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- ^ "Former Chairmen". National Research Council: Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 26 March 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
- ^ http://www.slma.lk/static/council.php Archived 5 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine Sri Lanka Medical Association Council 2011 accessed 27 May 2011
- ^ "PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal".
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- ^ Guidelines for the management of snakebites. WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia. August 2016. hdl:10665/249547. ISBN 9789290225300.
- ^ "Past Presidents | Ceylon College of Physicians (CCP)".
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- ^ "Directory- D - National Academy of Sciences - Sri Lanka". Archived from the original on 27 September 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
- ^ "Vidyajyothi Prof Janaka - Department of Medicine". Archived from the original on 27 September 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2016.