{"id":343,"date":"2016-11-21T07:13:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T07:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/clinmed\/senaka.rajapakse\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2024-11-21T07:09:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T07:09:10","slug":"home-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/vajira-dissanayake\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row el_class=&#8221;fom-header-row-home&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;781&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column css_animation=&#8221;zoomIn&#8221; width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;]<h1 class=\"fac-title text-left\" style=\"color:#4b4b4b\">Vidya Jyothi Professor Vajira H.W. Dissanayake<\/h1>\n[vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h4>MBBS(Colombo), PhD.(Nottingham), FNASSL, FIAHSI<\/h4>\n<h4>Dean, Chair &amp; Senior Professor of Anatomy<\/h4>\n<h4>Department of Anatomy, Genetics &amp; Biomedical Informatics<\/h4>\n<h4>Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.<\/h4>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;]<ul class=\"list-unstyled fom-research-links\">\n\t\t\t<li class=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t<strong><i class=\"fa fa-graduation-cap\"><\/i>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t<span><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=R8zWtPsAAAAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google scholar Citation<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<li class=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t<strong><i class=\"fa fa-graduation-cap\"><\/i>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t<span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Vajira_Dissanayake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Researchgate<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]Professor Vajira H. W. Dissanayake MBBS (Colombo), PhD (Nottingham), FNASSL, FIAHSI is the\u00a0Chair and Senior Professor in the Department of Anatomy, Genetics, and Biomedical Informatics and\u00a0the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. He is a pioneer in Genetics, Genomics, Biomedical Informatics and Bioethics in Sri Lanka. He is a leading researcher in these fields in Sri Lanka. He has supervised 15 PhD students and 60 MSc students. He together with his students and colleagues have been the recipient of more than 40 awards for research and innovation at university, national and international levels. In recognition of his scientific achievements he was elected a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka in 2013, a fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics in 2020, and conferred the Sri Lankan national titular honour of <em>vidya jyothi<\/em> in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Dissanayake has held many leadership positions in the field of medicine.\u00a0He was the President of the Sri Lanka Medical Association in 2012 and the President of the Commonwealth Medical Association from 2016 to 2019. The other leadership positions held by Prof. Dissanayake include Honorary Secretary, Sri Lanka Medical Association (2000 and 2005); Founder Secretary, Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka (1998-2000); President, Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka (2009-2019); President, Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (2019-2020); Vice President (Asia Pacific), International Medical Informatics Association (2019-2020); Board Member, Steering Committee, Forum for Ethical Review Committees in Asia and the Western Pacific (since 2010); Executive Board Member, Global Genomic Medicine Collaborative (since June 2016); Chairperson, Commonwealth Centre for Digital Health (since 2018); and Chairperson, Commonwealth Health Professions and Partners Alliance (since 2021). 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