Janaka de Silva explained

Janaka de Silva
Birth Place:Colombo, Sri Lanka
Nationality:Sri Lankan
Occupation:Physician
Vidya Jyothi
Parents: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.[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]

Notes and References

  1. http://rcclassof72.lk/old_site/inside_pages/d.htm Prof Hithanadura Janaka De Silva
  2. http://sundaytimes.lk/081130/Plus/sundaytimesplus_00.html 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. Web site: Past Deans .
  5. Web site: PGIM Oration 2019 – Call for applications .
  6. http://www.cmb.ac.lk/pgim/merc/newsletter25.pdf, Staff news—New Board of Management of Postgraduate Institute of Medicine
  7. Web site: Trailblazing liver transplant service has now blossomed to meet a vital need by Kumudini Hettiarachchi The Sunday Times Sunday February 19, 2012. sundaytimes.lk . 10 April 2014.
  8. Web site: HJ de silva.
  9. Web site: Former Chairmen . National Research Council: Sri Lanka . 26 March 2020.
  10. http://www.slma.lk/static/council.php Sri Lanka Medical Association Council 2011 accessed 27 May 2011
  11. Web site: PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal.
  12. Web site: l SACR Governance . 3 November 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120425013459/http://www.sactrc.org/SACRgovernance.html . 25 April 2012 . dead .
  13. Web site: Archived copy . 1 March 2018 . 2 March 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180302045009/https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding-and-support/documents/funding-to-support-research/funding-to-support-global-health/GHR-Selection-Panel-Membership-List.pdf . dead .
  14. http://www.tropmedres.ac/_asset/file/moru-strategic-plan-2010-2015.pdf
  15. ftp://ftp.ictp.trieste.it/r/ravalico/WORLD/04.%20Medical%20&%20Health%20Science%20%28including%20Neurosciences%29/DeSilva_HJ.pdf
  16. Book: Guidelines for the management of snakebites. 10665/249547. 9789290225300. August 2016. WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia.
  17. Web site: Past Presidents | Ceylon College of Physicians (CCP).
  18. Web site: Past Presidents | Ceylon College of Physicians (CCP).
  19. Web site: Directory- D - National Academy of Sciences - Sri Lanka . 25 September 2016 . 27 September 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160927030525/http://nas-srilanka.org/directory-d/ . dead .
  20. Web site: Vidyajyothi Prof Janaka - Department of Medicine . 25 September 2016 . 27 September 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160927101058/http://medicine.kln.ac.lk/depts/medicine/vidyajyothi-prof-janaka.html . dead .

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