Gerald Henry Cooray
Gerald Henry Cooray, OBE, FRCP (3 October 1908 – 27 February 1970) was a Sri Lankan pathologist. He was the president of the Ceylon Medical Association and Professor of Pathology at the University of Ceylon. Born in Panadura, Ceylon to Henry Cooray, a government medical officer and Pusethi Sudhira, daughter of Charles Frederick Sudhira Jayawickrema, an interpreter in the law courts. He was educated at Royal College, Colombo and studied medicine at the King's College Hospital, where he qualified with the Conjoint in 1932 and gained a MBBS the year after. On his return, he joined the Department of Health. In 1946, he joined the University of Ceylon as a lecturer in Pathology. He gained his MD (London) by thesis, winning the Gold Medal in Pathology, the first and only Ceylonese to do so. In 1953, he was appointed Professor of Pathology succeeding Professor W. A. E. Karunaratne. He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1951 New Year Honours a ...
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