Professor Ajith Kumar Siriwardena MBChB,

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, is the current professor of hepato-pancreatico-biliary surgery at the

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, and a consultant hepatobiliary surgeon at the

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Biography

He qualified in medicine from the University of Manchester and trained in surgery in Manchester and Edinburgh. He undertook advanced liver surgical training in Paris and worked as a consultant in the national liver surgery unit in Scotland. He currently provides expertise in liver surgery and pancreas surgery, especially for patients who have had bowel cancer and have then developed metastases in the liver.

Research

Professor Siriwardena's main research interests are liver metastases from

bowel cancer Colorectal cancer (CRC), also known as bowel cancer, colon cancer, or rectal cancer, is the development of cancer from the colon or rectum (parts of the large intestine). Signs and symptoms may include blood in the stool, a change in bowel ...

. His work has been published in over 100 peer reviewed articles. He sits on the council of the Society of Academic Research (SARS) as well as on the committee of the Europe and Africa Hepato-pancreato-Biliary Association (EAHPBA).

References

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Surgeons, Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of the Manchester Royal Infirmary Sri Lankan emigrants to the United Kingdom Sinhalese people Sri Lankan medical doctors 1956 births