Others

1.  ‘Identifying common mental disorders’ for the webinar on ‘Improving wellbeing of mentees’ organised by the Academic Mentoring Programme of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo on September 29th 2022
2. ‘Beating burnout’ at the Symposium titled ‘Crisis in Career ‘ at the Annual Academic Sessions of the Jaffna Medical Association on September 9th 2022
3. Session on ‘Academic counselling for University Academics’ at the Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education Course (CTHE) organised by the Staff Development Centre of the University of Sri Jayawardenapura on June 24th 2022
4. Plenary at the Anuradhapura Clinical Society sessions March 2022 “Suicide and deliberate self-harm in Sri Lanka’
5. ‘Staying ‘sane’ during PG training | Achieving work-life balance and maintaining wellbeing’ at the Annual Research Symposium of the PGIM November 2021
6. Member of opponent team for the Colombo Medical Congress debate on ‘Vaccination for COVID -19 should be a personal choice’ November 2021
7. Lecture on ‘Bipolar affective disorder’ for Medical Officers of Mental Health training December 2020
8. ‘Difficult to treat depression: Sri Lankan perspective’ at the Webinar organised by the North East England South Asia Mental health Alliance (NEESAMA) May 2020
9. ‘Fostering a mentoring culture’ at the academic mentoring workshop for staff of Department of Decisional Sciences, Faculty of Management, University of Sri Jayawardenapura January 2020
10. Symposium on ‘Suicide in Sri Lanka’ at the Colombo Medical Congress January 2020
11. Workshop on Schizophrenia organised by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in collaboration with the Sri Lanka College of Psychiatrists November 2019: Lecture on ‘Cognitive Rehabilitation’
12. Resource person for the workshop conducted by National College of Education on writing a resource book on ‘Reproductive Health’ for teachers, November 2019
13. Lecture on “Dementia’ for the Diploma in Psychiatry holder doctors organised by the Sri Lanka College of Psychiatrists in National Institute of Mental Health March 2019
14. Regional Sessions of Sri Lanka College of Psychiatrists organized in collaboration with Galoya Nimna Clinical Society, January 2019: ‘How to tackle memory loss in primary care: a refresher’
15. Resource person for Training Course for the Selection Examination for MD Psychiatry organized by the Sri Lanka College of Psychiatrists, February 2019
16. Symposium on Mental health of Elderly at the 131st Anniversary International Medical Congress of the Sri Lanka Medical Association July 2018: ‘Overview of mental health problems in the elderly’
17. CME program of the Sri Lanka College of Psychiatrists April 2018: ‘Update on Treatment of Depression’
18. Resource person for ‘Awareness program on stress relief and need for counselling’ for staff and students of the Faculty of Management and Science, University of Colombo, August 2018
19. CME program of the Sri Lanka College of Psychiatrists June 2017: ‘Cognitive assessment in Dementia’
20. Short Course on Medical Research Methodology at the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine (PGIM) for Postgraduate trainees: Session on ‘Dissertation writing’March 2017, June/July 2017, October 2017, February 2018, May 2018, July 2018, October 2018, February/March 2019, June/July 2019
21. Monthly research Meeting at the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine (PGIM): Publish your research, July 2017: Tips on choosing the right journal and maximizing the possibility of acceptance
22. Resource person for the Ceylon College of Physicians MD Part I MCQ Course 2017
23. Resource person for the Good Intern Programme 2016 organized by the Ministry of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine
24. Resource person for the Ceylon College of Physicians MD Part I MCQ Course 2015
25. Resource person for the Good Intern and Communication Skills Programme organized by the Education, training and Research Unit, Ministry of Health October 2015
26. Resource person for MD part I Training Programme in Psychiatry organized by the Sri Lanka College of Psychiatrists, August 2011

1. Trainer in pre-MD preparatory course by the Ceylon College of Physicians and Sri Lanka College of Psychiatrists
2. Author for the national school textbook series for Health and Physical education published by the Education Publications Department of the Department of Education, Ministry of Education
3. Trainer in the Leadership training course for University entrants in Sri Lanka
4. Peer reviewer for the Ceylon Medical Journal, Sri Lanka Journal of Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment (Dovepress), British Journal of Psychiatry and The Lancet Psychiatry
5. Providing psychological first aid and supporting patients and staff during the Easter bomb attacks response April 2019
6. Awareness and psychological support session during COVID for Sri Lanka Police Ministerial Security Division May 2020

1. Contributed regularly to the radio program ‘Views on Health’ broadcast over Radio Sri Lanka of SLBC and hosted by Fathima Razik Cader
2. COVID and pregnancy-BBC Sinhala page

https://www.bbc.com/sinhala/sri-lanka-52198935

3. COVID and maintaining mental health-BBC Sinhala page

https://www.bbc.com/sinhala/sri-lanka-52102202

4. Mother and daughter in law conflict: how it affects mental health- BBC Sinhala page

https://www.bbc.com/sinhala/sri-lanka-56597581?at_custom3=BBC+Sinhala&at_custom2=facebook_page&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_medium=custom7&at_campaign=64&at_custom4=BCABEA32-92AA-11EB-BECC-C307933C408C

5. Taking a deeper look at psychotherapy-The Morning newspaper http://epaper.themorning.lk/Home/ShareArticle?OrgId=784d0f2e&imageview=0
6. Creating hope through action: World Suicide Prevention Day: The People’s Platform, Newsfirst Channel September 9^th 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrL5lpnRjEU

7.Webinar on Bipolar disorder and PTSD organized by the Interact Club of Visakha Vidyalaya on August 22, 2022