Awards & Orations

Awards

• 2001
  Presidential Award for Excellence in Research awarded by the President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka 2001
• 2002
  University of Colombo Award for Excellence in Research 2002
• 2003
  Presidential Award for Excellence in Research awarded by the President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka 2003
• 2009
  Ramachandran Award for the Best Paper in Nephrology, Sri Lanka Medical Association 2009
• 2009
  Presidents Award for Scientific Publication 2009
• 2012
  First Prize for Scientific Paper in Basic Immunology, Allergy and Immunology Society of Sri Lanka 6th Biennial Scientific Sessions July 2012.
• 2012
  First Prize for Scientific Poster, Allergy and Immunology Society of Sri Lanka 6th Biennial Scientific Sessions July 2012.
• 2014
  Best oral presentation award in the Immunlogy session, International Conference on Frontiers in Molecular Life Sciences 2014
• 2014
  SLMA Prize for the best poster, 2014
• 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
  Presidents Awards for Scientific Publication 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
• 2012
  University of Colombo Award for Excellence in Research in Medicine 2009-2011, awarded in 2012
• 2016
  CVCD Excellence Award for the Most Outstanding Senior Researcher in Health Sciences 2016
• 2016
  Vice Chancellor’s Awards for Research Excellence

• 2014
  Sir Andrew Caldecott Gold Medal for the final MBBS
• 2014
  Joseph Nalliah Arumugam Gold Medal for the Final MBBS
• 2014
  Vaithialingam Gold Medal for Physiology
• 2014
  Hirdramani Scholarship for the 2nd MBBS
• 2014
  Bibile Memorial Prize for Pharmacology
• 2014
  Loos Gold Medal for Pathology
• 2014
  Myelopulle Silver Medal for Pharmacology
• 2014
  Mathew Gold Medal for Forensic Medicine
• 2014
  Professor Daphne Attygalle Medal in Pathology
• 2014
  Professor Channa Wijesinghe Gold Medal for Psychiatry
• 2014
  Rajasuriya Prize for Clinical Medicine
• 2014
  Dr D De S Muthukumarana Memorial Prize for Medicine
• 2014
  Dr Dhunjishaw Dadabhoy Gold Medal for Medicine
• 2014
  Flora and Wilson Bandaranayake Memorial Book Award
• 1996
  Award for the best research paper, Annual Academic Sessions of the Ceylon College of Physicians 1996
• 1998
  E.M. Wijerama award for the best research paper, Sri Lanka Medical Association 1998
• 2000
  Young Physician of the Year Award 2000 awarded by the Ceylon College of Physicians

Orations

• Faculty of Medicine Oration 2013: Predicting outcome in leptospirosis- towards a severity score. 4th October 2013
• E.V.Peiris Oration, Ceylon College of Physicians 2014: Leptospirosis: challenges in diagnosis, and predictors of severity. 6th October 2014