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P.A.H.A. Gunawardhana

Head of Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Awards

2003

International Award :- Robert H Sage award for best Specialist Registrar in Surgery University Hospital Birmingham

2002

Post Graduate  Qualifications :- FRCS ( Edinbourgh)

2001

Post Graduate  Qualifications :- FRCS ( Glasgow)

2000

GMC registration :- 5207884

1999

Awarded a JAICA scholarship  in Japan for training in endoscopy and Laparoscopy

1998

Master of Surgery (Colombo ) November 

1992

MBBS Second Class Honours with Distinction in Medicine University of Colombo  

Work Experience

2009Present date

Working at North Colombo Teaching Hospital in as Consultant Gastrointestinal Surgeon/General Surgeon at Ragama.  Working additionally as an Examiner for undergraduate and postgraduate examinations in surgery and involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training

20052008

Appointed as a Consultant in Gastrointestinal Surgery and General Surgery at the Sri Lanka University Teaching Hospital in Karapitiya, Galle

20042004

Appointed as a Specialist Registrar in General Surgery at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital under Mr.Anthony Fox for 6 months (April 2004 - September 2004)

20032004

Appointed as a Specialist Registrar in Colorectal a Surgery at  Queen Elizabeth Hospital Stork on Trent Under Ms. Christina Hall  for 6 months (October 2003- March 2004 )

20032003

Appointed as a Specialist Registrar in Surgery in Upper gastrointestinal and  Laparoscopic   surgery at Birmingham Heartland Hospital under Mr. Paul Super for 6 months (April 2003- September 2003)

20022003

Appointed as of Specialist Registrar in Hepatobiliary Surgery Liver Unit at  Queen Elizabeth Hospital  ,Birmingham under Mr.John Buckel for 6 months  

(October 2002- March 2003)

20012002

Appointed as a Specialist Registrar in Surgery  at West Midland Deanery  University  Hospital - Sally Oak under the supervision of Mr.Simon Radley. Involved in student education in the capacity of an external lecturer (September 2001-September 2002)

20002001

Appointed as a Registrar in Surgery at Queen Elizabeth Hospital - Kings Lynn under the supervision of Mr. Hugh Warren.  (July 2000- September 2001)

19991999

Completed JAICA scholarship training in endoscopy and Laparoscopy at the University Hospital Mitaka ,Tokyo,Japan (September 1999- December 1999) 

19981999

Became a lecturer at Department of Surgery at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka ,responsible for organising lectures and examinations.

19931998

  • Trained as  a Registrar and a Senior Registrar at the professorial surgical Unit, University of Colombo - National Hospital Colombo from 1993 to 1998

  • Later Joined the Department of Surgery as a Lecturer in 1998

     

                                                

Education

19731983

Spent 10 years at Ananda College , Colombo , Sri Lanka  (Was a senior prefect)

19841992

Attended Faculty of Medicine at the University of Colombo , Sri Lanka

Publications

 

  • Comparison of hydrogen peroxide instillation with Goodsall's Law for fistula-in- ano

P.A.H.A.Gunawardhana ,K.I.Deen

ANZ journal of surgery/Vol 71,issue 8

First published : 20.12.2001


  • Patient Vs Physician delay in colorectal cancer; can we do better?

              P.A.H.A.Gunawardhana ,K.I.Deen

             GUT 48: A55-A55

             March 2001

  • Prevalence of Helicobacter Pylori infection determined by histology in 

patients with different upper gastrointestinal diseases

 E.Waidyarathne, H.Gunawardhana 

DOI : 10.4038/cmj .v55i2.1992

Ceylon Medical Journal Vol 55(2)2010 pp68-69


  • Non- starch polysaccharide intake and the prevalence of constipation 

in free living and institutionalised older people

P.A.H.A.Gunawardhana , S.R.E. Wijesuriya,K.I.Deen

GUT 48, suppl _ 1.A51