Vasanthy Arasaratnam

Professor
Vasanthy Arasaratnam
Native name வசந்தி அரசரத்தினம்
Ethnicity Sri Lankan Tamil
Alma mater University of Madras
University of Colombo
University of Jaffna
Occupation Academic
Title Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jaffna
Term March 2011 –
Predecessor N. Shanmugalingam

Professor Vasanthy Arasaratnam (Tamil: வசந்தி அரசரத்தினம்) is a Sri Lankan Tamil biochemist, academic, former dean of the Faculty of Medicine and current vice-chancellor of the University of Jaffna.

Early life

Arasaratnam obtained a BSc degree from the University of Madras.[1][2] She later received a MSc degree from the University of Colombo and a Phd degree from the University of Jaffna.[1][2]

Career

Arasaratnam was head of Department of Biochemistry at the University of Jaffna from January 1990 to September 1996 and from October 1997 to December 2000.[2]She was dean of the Faculty of Medicine between August 2000 and August 2003.[3] She was head of the Department of Pharmacology in September 2003 and was elected to the university's senate in 2004.[2] She was appointed vice-chancellor of the university in March 2011.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Office of the Vice-Chancellor". University of Jaffna.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Prof. (Ms.) V. Arasaratnam". Faculty of Medicine, University of Jaffna.
  3. ↑ "History". Faculty of Medicine, University of Jaffna.
  4. ↑ "Vasanthi Arasaratnam becomes Vice Chancellor, Jaffna University". TamilNet. 31 March 2011.


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