H. H. R. Samarasinghe is a Sri Lankan physician, medical administrator and president of the Sri Lanka Medical Council. Samarasinghe was educated at

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and

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qualifying

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and later

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. He worked as senior lecturer in Medicine Faculty of Medicine University of Colombo (and is described as an inspiring teacher ). He had a special interest in Neurology and collaborated in research with

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, then a junior doctor. He returned to Sri Lanka after working in UK and New Zealand and joined the new flagship Hospital Sri Jayawardanapura General Hospital as consultant physician, where he collaborated with

Devaka Fernando Devaka Fernando is a Sri Lankan physician and academic. He was president of the Osteoporosis Society of Sri Lanka and the Founding Professor of Medicine at the University of Sri Jayawardanapura. Education Fernando was educated at Dean Row Sc ...

in research . and setting up a specialist diabetes service and with Dr Chula Herath in establishing a nephrology service. He was appointed chairman of the Hospital Board by the Government of Sri Lanka, succeeding fellow neurologist J.B. Peiris and obstetrician

Nalin Rodrigo Jayatissa Nalin Rodrigo was a Sri Lankan Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Surgeon, Medical Teacher and Medical Administrator., Family, early life and education Rodrigo was a great-grandson Sir Charles Henry de Soysa. His father Professor J. L. ...

at Sri Lanka's only government owned independent Trust at the time. He served as Registrar (CEO equivalent) and later chairman of the Sri Lanka Medical Council. He is a Fellow of the

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and the Ceylon College of Physicians. He was awarded the National Honour

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