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Kemal Deen is a

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, and a consultant in GastroIntestinal Surgery. He is the Senior Professor of Surgery at the

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Medical School, Sri Lanka. He is a founder professor of the Department of Surgery and previously, he held the position of the head of Department of Surgery from 1998 to 2003. His academic degrees are MBBS (Peradeniya); MD (Birmingham); MS (Colombo); FRCS (Glasgow). In 2014, he was elected as the president elect for The College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka.

Education

Deen was educated at

Trinity College, Kandy Trinity College, Kandy is a private Anglican boys' school located in Kandy, Sri Lanka. It offers both day and boarding facilities. It was founded in 1872 by British Anglican missionaries of the Church Missionary Society, modelled on Britis ...

, where he won sport colours in athletics and the Trinity Lion in rugby scoring the winning try in the

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against Royal in 1976. He subsequently entered the

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in 1977 from where he obtained a

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degree. He later obtained a postgraduate

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from the

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in 1993 and the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons. He also trained in the USA as a Fellow at Mayo Clinic and the

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Educational and Professional work

Deen was appointed Professor of Surgery in the

and together with Janaka de Silva, was a part of the concept-planning team which brought liver transplantation to Sri Lanka. He has published several books and research papers in peer reviewed journals.

Honours

Deen is a Fellow of the

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London, a Member of American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgery, a Fellow of the National Academy of Science –Sri Lanka, a Fellow of the Association of Colon and Rectal Surgeons –India, a Fellow of the Pakistan Society of Clinical Oncology – Pakistan. Deen holds visiting professorships at The Tata Memorial Cancer Centre- Mumbai, India, The Islamic International Medical university, The Christian Medical College, Vellore, India and The International Medical University, Seremban, Malaysia.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Deen, Kemal Sri Lankan surgeons Alumni of the University of Peradeniya Living people Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England Academic staff of the University of Kelaniya Sri Lankan rugby union players Alumni of the University of Birmingham Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of Trinity College, Kandy

Education

Educational and Professional work

Honours

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