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She was accredited as a teacher in Higher education by the Staff and Education Development Association (SEDA) in the United Kingdom in 1999. She is currently President of the Sri Lanka Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (SLACPT) and was the Chairperson of the Speciality Board in Clinical Pharmacology at the PGIM.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n She has delivered 6 orations, SC Paul oration (2 occasions) and Prof NDW Lionel oration of SLMA, Prof Senaka Bibile oration (2 occasions) and John Autoin oration of Society of Pharmacovigilance of India. \u00a0Her research interests and publications are in the areas of clinical pharmacology, medication safety, toxicology, medical ethics, medical education and autoimmune diseases. She has experience as a principal investigator and sub investigator in many international clinical trials both in Sri Lanka and in UK in areas of SLE, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. She is a co-editor of The Sri Lanka Prescriber.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n She has contributed to the third WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge Medication Without Harm<\/em> from 2016, participating in many consultative meetings held in WHO Headquarters in Geneva and was a speaker at the launch of C<\/span>hallenge, at the 2<\/span>nd<\/span> Ministerial summit for patient safety, in Germany in 2017. \u00a0<\/span>She is currently serving as a WHO consultant on medication safety attached to the Patient Safety Flagship Unit of the World Health Organisation headquarters, \u00a0Geneva Switzerland contributing to development of many technical resources on medication safety and promoting implementation of medication safety Challenge \u00a0globally and providing country support. She was instrumental in developing the national action plan on medication safety for Sri Lanka, which was launched through the Directorate of Healthcare Quality and safety of the Ministry of Health in 2021. Many activities are currently being implemented.<\/span><\/p>\n She developed capacity for conducting PhD projects in the Department of pharmacology by developing a research laboratory for the conduct of bioequivalence and biowaiver studies securing many research grants. The laboratory now offers facilities for conducting bioequivalence and biowaiver studies and quality testing of pharmaceuticals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n She has successfully completed supervision of 5 PhD projects and currently supervising 4 PhD projects. \u00a0The topics of projects include quality assurance of pharmaceuticals, developing new treatments for diabetes, investigation of efficacy and safety of herbal products and medication safety.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n She was Head of Department of Medical Humanities for 3 years, Chairperson of the Behavioural Sciences Stream for 4 years and the Head of Department of Pharmacology for 6 years. She is a member of senate of the University of Colombo from 2011. <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row el_class=”fom-header-row-home”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”550″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column][vc_column css_animation=”zoomIn” width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text] MBBS(Col),MD(Col),MRCP(UK),DipMedTox(Cardiff),FCCP,FRCP(Lon) Specialist in General Internal Medicine Senior Professor and Chair Professor of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-pagebuilder.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/priyadarshani-galappatthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/priyadarshani-galappatthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/priyadarshani-galappatthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/priyadarshani-galappatthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/priyadarshani-galappatthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/priyadarshani-galappatthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/priyadarshani-galappatthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/priyadarshani-galappatthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}