Awards and Orations

Special Awards

• 2017
  Ten Outstanding Young Persons (TOYP) 2017 awarded by the Junior Chamber International Sri Lanka – Medical Research

Research Awards

• 2020
  Daphne Attygalle Award for the best paper in Cancer at the SLMA 133rd Anniversary International Medical Congress, Colombo 2020
• 2020
  S. E Seneviratne Award for the best paper (runners up) at the SLMA 133rd Anniversary International Medical Congress, Colombo 2020
• 2018
  Daphne Attygalle Award for the best paper in Cancer at the SLMA 131st Anniversary International Medical Congress, Colombo 2018
• 2017-2018
  President’s award for scientific research publications 2017 and 2018 (for years 2015 and 2016)
• 2016
  Award for best oral presentation at the Annual Scientific Congress of the Anuradhapura Clinical Society -2016
• 2016
  National research council merit award for scientific publications 2016 (for the year 2014)

Scholarships and Awards

• 2018
  European Breast Cancer Congress – Fellowship Grant
• 2017
  European Cancer Congress Fellowship
• 2017
  University of Colombo Travel Grant
• 2016
  Australia and Asia Pacific Clinical Oncology Research Development (ACORD) Fellowship
• 2012-2015
  Commonwealth PhD Scholarship – University of Auckland
• 2014
  Travel Grant – Awarded by the New Zealand Society for Oncology
• 2009
  ASGBI International Bursary Award – Awarded by the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland
• 2004-2005
  Commonwealth Medical Elective Bursary – Birmingham Children’s’ Hospital, UK

Medals & Prizes

Postgraduate

• 2010
  Milroy Paul Gold medal for Clinical Surgery (MD – Surgery)

Undergraduate

• 2004
  Student of the year award 2004 – University of Colombo
• 2004
  Sumanawathie de Costa Jubilee Medal for the Best Student of the Faculty of Medicine, Colombo
• 2004
  Drogo Austin Gold Medal for Orthopaedic Surgery
• 2004
  Alaric Jayasinghe Memorial Gold Medal in Paediatrics
• 2004
  S.O Mendis Gold Medal in Pharmacology
• 2004
  Gladys Jayawardena Gold Medal in Parasitology
• 2004
  A.D Wijesena Memorial Medal for Obstetrics & Gynaecology
• 2004
  Mylopulle Silver Medal for Pharmacology
• 2004
  D.E Gunathilleke Memorial Prize for Obstetrics & Gynaecology
• 2004
  Senaka Bibile Prize in Pharmacology

Orations

• R L Spittel Gold Medal for the oration at the Annual Scientific Sessions of the College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka 2016 on “A breast cancer registry to improve quality of care and reduce disparities in breast cancer care in Sri Lanka”
• Professor R A Navaratne Gold Medal for the oration at the Annual Scientific Sessions of the College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka 2020 on “Cancer in Sri Lanka – Trends, Care and Outcomes”