E.M. Wijerama, FRCP was a Sri Lankan physician and

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. He was the first President of the

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and former President of the

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. Educated at Royal College Colombo, he studied medicine at the Colombo Medical College and went on to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians after gaining its membership. A leading consultant physician of the General Hospital, Colombo, he was elected as President of the Ceylon Medical Association from 1947 to 1948. In 1967 was elected the first President of Ceylon College of Physicians. He donated his home in Colombo to the Ceylon Medical Association in 1964. Renamed ''Wijerama House'', it is the current headquarters of the Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA), the most influential professional body in the country and is home to the

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, one of the principal medical libraries in the island. The adjoining road which was formally known as ''MacCarthy Road'' was renamed in his honour as ''Dr E.M. Wijerama Mawatha'' by the Colombo Municipal Council during his lifetime, the first time a street was named after a living person in Sri Lanka.Let us not forget this medical luminary
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