Deshamanya Deshamanya ( si, දේශමාන්‍ය, translit=Dēshamāṉya; ta, தேசமான்ய, translit=Tēcamāṉya; Pride of the Nation) is the second-highest national honour of Sri Lanka awarded by the Government of Sri Lanka as a ...

Professor A. H. Sheriffdeen is a Sri Lankan surgeon, academic and voluntary worker.

Education

Sheriffdeen was educated at St Andrew's College, Nawalapitiya,

St. Anthony's College, Kandy , motto_translation = Light From Heaven , patron = Saint Anthony of Padua , religion = Roman Catholic , founder = Felice Alexander Zoppi , established = 1854 , type ...

and

Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo Established in 1870 as the Colombo Medical School, the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, is the second oldest medical school in South Asia.It is considered to be the top most medical faculty in the country which requir ...

qualifying

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery ( la, Medicinae Baccalaureus, Baccalaureus Chirurgiae; abbreviated most commonly MBBS), is the primary medical degree awarded by medical schools in countries that follow the tradition of the United King ...

. He trained in the UK becoming a Fellow of the

Royal College of Surgeons The Royal College of Surgeons is an ancient college (a form of corporation) established in England to regulate the activity of surgeons. Derivative organisations survive in many present and former members of the Commonwealth. These organisations a ...

Professional career

Sheriffdeen was Professor of Surgery at

with contemporaries

Priyani Soysa Deshamanya Priyani Elizabeth Soysa ( si, ප්‍රියානි සොයිසා; 23 November 1925 – 7 April 2023) was a Sri Lankan scientist who was Emeritus Professor of Paediatrics of the University of Colombo and the first woman to ...

Ravindra fernando Ravindra Fernando is a Sri Lankan forensic pathologist, toxicologist, physician, author and academic. He is the current chairman of the National Dangerous Drugs Control Board of Sri Lanka. Biography Education Fernando was educated at Ananda Co ...

and

Rezvi Sheriff Sri Lankan honours system, Vidya Jyothi Mohamed Hussain Rezvi Sheriff, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, FRCP (Lon), FRCPE (Edin), FRACP, FCCP, FSLCGP, FNASSL is a Sri Lankan academic, nephrologist and physician. He served as the directo ...

. Sheriffdeen is best known for introducing Vascular Surgery and also for establishing Transplant Surgery in Sri Lanka in partnership with Professor

. He together with J.B. Peiris and others described a new clinical entity Transient emboligenic aortoarteritis. He has been chairman of the Ministry of Health Trauma protocols at the Trauma Secretariat, Board of Study in Surgery at

Postgraduate Institute of Medicine The Postgraduate Institute of Medicine (PGIM) of the University of Colombo is the graduate school that provides specialist training and board certification of medical doctors in Sri Lanka. The only type of its kind, it is similar to the prestigious ...

, Presiden
Sri Lanka Medical Association
and Presiden
The College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka
He has authored biographies of Sri Lankan Surgeons.

Voluntary service

Sheriffdeen has provided leadership and expertise to many voluntary services including ACT Lanka which he is Chairman and is a leading activist in HIV AIDS at National and International level. He has been President and Vice President of the Charity Colombo Friend in Need Society, Chairman AIDEX (Aid to the Ex-Abled) Sri Lanka in addition to Chairing the Jaipur Foundation programme for

Jaipur foot The Jaipur foot, also known as the Jaipur leg, is a rubber-based prosthetic leg for people with below-knee amputations. Although inferior in many ways to the composite carbon fibre variants, its variable applicability and cost efficiency make ...

users throughout Sri Lanka.

Honours and awards

Sheriffdeen was awarded the title

by the Government of Sri Lanka, Honorary Fellowships by Ceylon College of Physicians and the College of General Practitioners of Sri Lanka. He is an amateur golfer of repute.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sheriffdeen, Ah Sri Lankan surgeons Alumni of the University of Colombo Academic staff of the University of Colombo Living people Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Alumni of St. Anthony's College, Kandy Deshamanya Year of birth missing (living people)