Dr. Rachini Kishara Withanage

MBBS(Peradeniya), MD(Colombo), Fellowship in Liver Transplant & Hepatobiliary Anaesthesia (Birmingham, UK)

Senior Lecturer in Anaesthesiology

Department of Anaesthesiology & Critical Care

Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

A Senior Lecturer at the Department of Anaesthesiology & Critical Care, Faculty of Medicine University of Colombo and Honorary Consultant Anaesthetist, University Department of Anaesthesiology & Critical Care, National Hospital of Sri Lanka.

Primary education at Sirimavo Bandaranaike Vidyalaya, Colombo. Graduated from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 2008. Obtained the MD in Anaesthesiology from PGIM, University of Colombo in 2018. Awarded the Fellowship in Liver Transplant & Hepatobiliary Anaesthesia from Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK. Board certified in August 2020 as a Consultant Anaesthetist with special training in Transplant Anaesthesia & Critical Care.

Research interests include liver transplantation, hepatobiliary anaesthesia, and peri-operative haemodynamic monitoring.