Senaka Rajapakse
Sri Lankan Academic and Researcher
Senaka Rajapakse (born 1966) is a Sri Lankan academic, researcher and clinician. He is senior professor and chair of medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and the director of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, Sri Lanka.
Education
Senaka Rajapakse graduated (MBBS 1993, MD 1999) from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo in 1993. He became a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 2003. He completed postgraduate training in General (Internal) Medicine and Intensive care at National University Hospital, Singapore.
Educational and Professional Activities
Senaka Rajapakse is a consultant physician in general (internal) medicine in department of medicine, University of Colombo and honorary consultant at University medical unit, National Hospital of Sri Lanka. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London and Edinburgh, the American College of Physicians, the Ceylon College of Physicians, and the National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka. He was President of the Ceylon College of Physicians for 2021, Past-President of Sri Lanka College of Internal Medicine. He is the Regional Adviser for Colombo to the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He is co-editor of the Ceylon Medical Journal and is on the editorial board of several journals.
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