Nimal Senanayake

Professor Nimal Senanayake
Nationality Sri Lanka Sri Lankan
Occupation Professor of Medicine, Consultant Neurologist, Medical Researcher, Author, Film and Television Scriptwriter
Title Professor

Professor Nimal Senanayake is a Sri Lankan neurologist, physician, author, film and television scriptwriter and academic.

Education

Senanayake was educated at the University of Peradeniya.[1] He trained at the Professorial medical unit at General Hospital Colombo, working alongside HHR Samarasinghe and Kumaradasa Rajasuriya. After training in the UK and obtaining his MRCP he was appointed Senior Lecturer in Medicine. He was subsequently promoted to Professor of Medicine and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Peradeniya.[2]

Professional career

Senanayake has served as Chairman of Board of Study in Medicine at the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, President of the Sri Lanka Medical Association [3] and President of the Kandy Society of Medicine.[4]

Contributions to Research

Senanayake is best known for his work on the neurotoxicity of pesticides and particularly organophosphorous compounds but has published extensively and is an authority on epilepsy and other neurological disorders. He currently leads with an Australian colleague [5] a Wellcome Trust funded initiative to reduce deaths from pesticides.[6]

Literary and Artistic contributions

Senanayake is an author of non medical books and a scriptwriter as well as a scientific researcher, and has scripted several television dramas and documentaries shown on national television. The work has a strong bias towards medical issues such as psychoanalaysis and living with epilepsy but draws on adaptations of work by Maupassant and Wilkie Collins.,[7][8] He is also a vocalist, and has performed at several venues.

Honours and Awards

He has received awards for contributions to research (SLMA Gold Medal Oration,[9] Kandy Society of Medicine Gold Medal Oration,[10] Senaka Bibile Gold Medal Oration,[11] Kumaradasa Rajasuriya Gold Medal [12]) and scriptwriting.[13] He was awarded a DSc by the university in recognition of his achievements in the field of Toxicology and Neurology.[14] He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians

References

  1. ↑ "Inauguration ceremony" (PDF). www.pemsaa.org. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
  2. ↑ "List of Deans". www.med.pdn.ac.lk. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
  3. ↑ "Presidents of the Sri Lanka Medical Association:". www.slma.lk. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
  4. ↑ "1) Past Presidents". kandysocmed.tripod.com. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
  5. ↑ "ANU projects to cut pesticide deaths....". info.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
  6. ↑ "Combating pesticide poisoning in South Asia ;Sri Lankan and Australian researchers are teaming up to tackle pesticide poisoning.". www.wellcome.ac.uk. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
  7. ↑ "Short Bursts of Psychoanalysis". www.island.lk. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
  8. ↑ "‘Sathkulu Pawwa’ Monday, 10 January 2011, tele drama launched". www.dailymirror.lk. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
  9. ↑ "SLMA Oration". www.slma.lk. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
  10. ↑ "4) Kandy Society of Medicine Orations,". www.kandysocmed.tripod.com. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
  11. ↑ "3) Senake Bibile Memorial Oration". www.slma.lk. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
  12. ↑ "Late Prof. K. Rajasuriya's bold experiment". Dailynews. 30 May 2003. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
  13. ↑ "‘Sumathi Awards 2010'". www.sumathiawards.lk. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
  14. ↑ "Peradeniya University Medical Faculty". www.dailynews.lk. Retrieved 2011-08-15.


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