Awards and Orations

Awards

  • 2003/ 2004
    APPSEAR Traveling Scholarship (Awarded by Australian Collage of Physicians). (Third Sri Lankan to receive this award)
  • 2004
    Prof S. Ibrahim award for the best paper in Tropical Paediatrics. SLCP sessions.
  • 2005
    Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians prize for the Best Scientific Paper. SLCP sessions
  • 2006
    E.M. Wijerama prize for the best paper. SLMA sessions.
  • 2006
    Excellence in Research in the Year 2006, University of Colombo.
  • 2006
    Sir Nicholas Attygalle prize for the paper. SLMA sessions.
  • 2008
    Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians prize for the Best Scientific Paper. SLCP sessions
  • 2008, 2013, 2014
    Presidential Awards for Scientific Publication
  • 2009
    Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians prize for the Best Scientific Paper. SLCP sessions.
  • 2010
    Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians prize for the Best Scientific Paper. SLCP sessions.
  • 2010/2011
    Recipient of Fellowship Training in Post Liver Transplant Management in Children at Riuniti De Burgamo Hospital in Italy (Awarded by Amici Della Paediatrica) Oct’ 2010 – April 2011.
  • 2013
    S E Seneviratna Prize for Oral presentation at SLMA sessions.
  • 2014
    Prof S. Ibrahim award for the best paper in Tropical Paediatrics. SLCP sessions.
  • 2015
    Attended a workshop on “Clinical Management of Dengue/Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever” at WHO collaborative centre for Dengue Control in Bangkok, Thailand. Awarded by Dengue Control Unit, Epidemiology Unit, Ministry of Health, Government of Sri Lanka. 1st to 5th June 2015
  • 2016
    Best paper at the 15th Annual Academic Sessions of the Perinatal Society of Sri Lanka
  • 2016
    Dr Gamini Karunarathne award for the best paper from the outstations. 19th Annual Scientific Congress, SLCP sessions,.
  • 2016
    Professor Zef Ibrahim award for the best paper in tropical paediatrics. 19th Annual Scientific Congress, SLCP sessions,.
  • 2016
    Best Oral Presentation of the Congress. 19th Annual Scientific Congress SLCP sessions.
  • 2017
    Dr Gamini Karunarathne award for the best paper from the outstations. 20th Annual Scientific Congress, SLCP sessions,.
  • 2018
    Best Digital Poster. 10th Annual Academic Sessions of Sri Lanka College of Pulmonologists, July 2018 Kandy, Sri Lanka.
  • 2018
    CVCD award 2018, for the most outstanding Senior Researcher in field of Health Science/Medicine/Dental Science/Veterinary Science/Allied Science. (Life Time Award for All Universities).
  • 2019
    Best Poster presentation, 22nd Annual Scientific Congress. SLCP. August. PP 05

Orations

  • Professor CC de Silva Oration 2011 – Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians “Body Composition of Sri Lankan Children: Effects of Ethnicity”
  • Sri Lanka Medical Association Oration 2012. “Control of Non Communicable Disease: Where to begin?
  • Dr. Arunasalam Sivapathasundaram Memorial Lecture -2016 – Jaffna University “Childhood Obesity: The Silent Epidemic”
  • Professor CC de Silva Memorial Lecture 2017 – Nutrition Society of Sri Lanka, 29th January 2017, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. “Assessment of Nutritional Status of Sri Lankan Children: Validity of Anthropometry Cutoff ?” The Inaugural Lecture
  • Dr. SC Paul Memorial Oration 2017 – Sri Lanka Medical Association, 14th July 2017, Colombo, Sri Lanka. “Metabolic Morbidity in Obese Children: What can we do?”
  • Dr. Stella de Silva Memorial Oration 2017 - Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians “Childhood Obesity – Sociocultural Determinants”
  • Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo Oration 2018- “Management of Dengue Infection: Can We Improve Morbidity”
  • Keynote address at the Official Ceremony of the National Nutrition Month -2017 – Ministry of Health. “Sugar Addiction and its Implications on health of Children”. June 2017, Rathnawalee Balika VIdyalaya, Gampaha, Sri Lanka.
  • Keynote address at the Official Ceremony of the National Breast Feeding Week - 2018 -Ministry of Health. “Breast Feeding in Preventing Non Communicable Disease”