Ravindra fernando
| Ravindra Fernando | |
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| Chairman of the National Dangerous Drugs Control Board |
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| Born | Sri Lanka |
| Nationality | Sri Lankan |
| Alma mater | Ananda College, University of Colombo |
| Occupation | Professor of Forensic Medicine, Consultant Physician |
Ravindra Fernando is a Sri Lankan forensic pathologist, toxicologist, physician, author and academic. He is the current chairman of the National Dangerous Drugs Control Board of Sri Lanka.
Fernando was educated at Ananda College Colombo and the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo where he was active in the Medical Students Union and the Buddhist Brotherhood.
He joined the Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, as a lecturer soon after his internship and subsequently trained in the Department of Forensic Medicine, Guy's Hospital Medical School, University of London, on a Commonwealth Scholarship. He was trained in the Department of Neurology in the same hospital and in the Department of Pathology, King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor. He returned to the post of senior lecturer, subsequently promoted on academic merit to a personal chair and being appointed to the substantive chair succeeding Professor Nandadasa Kodagoda. He not only qualified as a pathologist by becoming a member of the Royal College of Pathologists but also qualified as a physician acquiring postgraduate qualifications in clinical medicine by membership of the Royal College of Physicians. He was appointed professor of forensic medicine and toxicology in Colombo in 1996.
He was instrumental in setting up the National Poisons Information Centre in the National Hospital of Sri Lanka, Colombo, in 1988 (the first in South East Asia) and was its head from its inception for 20 years. He was a member of the INTOX program of the International Programme of Chemical Safety (ILO-UNEP-WHO) to prepare a computerized database on poisons, since its inception in 1988. He is a member of the WHO expert group on "Vector Biology and Control." He is a Member of the senior advisory board to South Asian Clinical Tocicology Research Collaboration (SACTRC) (South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration) with Nimal Senanayake, Rezvi Sheriff and Janaka de Silva
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