Rezvi Sheriff
| Mohamed Hussain Rezvi Sheriff | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Sri Lankan |
| Education |
University of Colombo Zahira College Colombo Royal College Colombo |
| Occupation | Consultant physician and nephrologist National Hospital Sri Lanka, director of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine and senior professor of Medicine, head of the Department of Clinical Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo |
| Employer | University of Colombo |
| Known for | Co-founder of Sri Lanka's first kidney transplant programme and dialysis unit, medical research, medical teacher, postgraduate medical educationist |
| Title | Vidya Jyothi Professor |
Vidya Jyothi Mohamed Hussain Rezvi Sheriff, FRCP (Lon), FRCP (Edin), FRACP, FCCP, FSLCGP, FNASSL is a Sri Lankan academic and physician. He is the Director of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine; Senior Professor of Medicine; Head of the Department of Clinical Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo. He is also a Consultant Physician and Nephrologist National Hospital Sri Lanka.
Sheriff began his formal education at Zahira College Colombo and later received a Scholarship and moved to Royal College Colombo. He subsequently entered the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo where he obtained both a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery and later Doctor of Medicine. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Ceylon College of Physicians.
After qualification he was appointed Lecturer in Medicine in the Department of Medicine under Professor Kumaradasa Rajasuriya. After training in the UK obtaining MRCP he returned as Senior Lecturer later being promoted to Professor.
He and his collaborator AH Sheriffdeen set up the first transplant programme in the country in October 1985. He and Surendra Ramachandran pioneered the speciality of Nephrology in Sri Lanka. Nearly 1,000 transplants have been done under his supervision.
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