Surendra Ramachandran
| Deshamanya Dr Surendra Ramachandran | |
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| Born | 1934 Sri Lanka |
| Died | 2010 |
| Nationality |
 Sri Lankan |
| Education |
University of Colombo Royal College Colombo |
| Occupation | Consultant Physician and Nephrologist |
| Employer | Ministry of Health Sri Lanka |
| Known for | Founder of Sri Lankas First Dialysis Unit, Medical Researcher, Medical Teacher |
| Title | Deshamanya Dr |
Deshamanya Surendra Ramachandran, FRCP was a Sri Lankan Physician and Nephrologist. He was the founder of Sri Lankas First Dialysis Unit.
Educated at Royal College Colombo, he studied medicine Colombo Medical College now known as Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo where he obtained first class honours in the 2nd, 3rd and final MBBS examinations with distinctions in Physiology, Biochemistry, Pharmacology, Pathology, Bacteriology, Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynaecology. He was awarded the Vaithilingam Gold Medal in Physiology, Loos Gold Medal in Pathology, Andrew Caldecott Gold Medal for the best performance in the final MBBS, Dadabhoy Gold Medal for Medicine and the Perry exhibition for the best performance in the final MBBS.
He was then awarded the British Council scholarship and trained in the University College Hospital, London passing MRCP London, Edinburgh and Glasgow and subsequently became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He was awarded the Smith and Nephew Fellowship to the UK in 1969,where he trained in the renal unit at the Royal Free Hospital, London.
Ramachandran was committed to performing research throughout his career and much of it was done at a time when there was no formal funding or encouragement from the Ministry of Health, although his primary area of specialisation was nephrology his research reflected the General Medical Practice in rural Sri Lanka at the time and a strong commitment to General Internal Medicine throughout his distinguished career. His research publications covered nephrology, malaria, typhoid, diabetes,alcohol induced disease, Health care in the elderly, hepatic amoebiasis, and leptospirosis.
He worked at National Hospital Sri Lanka alongside colleagues such as Dr J.B. Peiris, Rezvi Sheriff US Jayawickrama and AH Sheriffdeen. He was the founder of the Dialysis unit (with Rezvi Sheriff) and the Medical Intensive Care Unit (with US Jayawickrama) at National Hospital Sri Lanka, the first in a Sri Lankan Government Hospital.
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