Janaka de Silva FRCP

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is a Sri Lankan physician and academic. He is Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the

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. Janaka de Silva was educated at

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and holds degrees from the universities of Colombo and Oxford. He had his higher specialist clinical training at the John Radcliffe Hospital. De Silva was Professor and Chair of Medicine at the

from 1996-2022, and in 1997, he succeeded

Carlo Fonseka Carlo Fonseka ( si, කාලෝ ෆොන්සේකා ''Kālō Fonsēkā''; 4 March 1933 – 2 September 2019) was a Sri Lankan physician, academic and political activist. He was a former dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Kel ...

as Dean of Medicine, a post he held for nine years. He was also Director of the

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(PGIM),

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from 2014-2020, and a member of the University Grants Commission from 2008-2011. Before becoming its Director he chaired a number of boards in the PGIM, where he and colleagues established the first formal training programme for gastroenterologists in Sri Lanka. Together with

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and a few others he pioneered setting up of the liver transplant service at the Colombo North Teaching Hospital. De Silva’s most influential contributions to research stemmed from his abiding interest in health problems prevalent in Sri Lanka. He was Chairman of the

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from 2013-2019. He held several editorial appointments and served on committees in health and research organizations including the

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and the UK's

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(NIHR). tp://ftp.ictp.trieste.it/r/ravalico/WORLD/04.%20Medical%20&%20Health%20Science%20%28including%20Neurosciences%29/DeSilva_HJ.pdf/ref> He was President of the Ceylon College of Physicians in 2004, twenty years after his father, P. T. de Silva. In addition to awards and fellowships from several academic and professional bodies, de Silva was conferred the title ''Vidya Jyothi'' - Sri Lanka's highest honor for science.

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