Janaka de Silva
| Janaka de Silva | |
|---|---|
| Born | Sri Lanka |
| Nationality | Sri Lankan |
| Education |
Royal College Colombo University of Colombo University of Oxford |
| Occupation | Professor of medicine |
| Employer | University of Kelaniya |
| Title | Vidyajyothi |
| Parent(s) | P. T. De Silva, Kusuma de Silva (neé Weerasekera) |
Professor H. Janaka de Silva is a Sri Lankan academic physician. De Silva is Professor of Medicine at the University of Kelaniya. He is also Director of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine at the University of Colombo and Chairman of the National Research Council of Sri Lanka
Janaka de Silva was educated at Royal College, Colombo. He qualified from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo with MBBS in 1982, and captained the University Rugby team. De Silva then went on to obtain a MD from the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo and a DPhil from the University of Oxford on a Wingate Scholarship,Wellcome Trust Fellowship and an Overseas Research Student award. He had his higher specialist clinical training at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford and obtained MRCP (UK).
De Silva was Dean of Medicine at Kelaniya and a member of the University Grants Commission of Sri Lanka. In the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, he chaired the Board of Study in Medicine, the Specialty Board in Gastroenterology, and the Board of Management.
De Silva and colleagues set up the first formal training programme for gastroenterologists in Sri Lanka at the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine. Together with Kemal Deen and other colleagues he set up a liver transplant service in Sri Lanka.
...
Wikipedia