Awards and Orations

Awards

• January 1988
  Prof Priyani E Soysa Gold Medal in Paediatrics
• Final MBBS 1982
  George Wickramasuriya Memorial Prize for Gynaecology
• 1999
  Prof Geoff Ebrahim prize for the best paper in Tropical Paediatrics

  Value of stool microscopy in predicting a bacterial aetiology in watery or mucoid diarrhoea3rd Annual Scientific Congress of the Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians
• 2003
  Prof Geoff Ebrahim prize for the best paper in Tropical Paediatrics

  Seroprevalence of Hepatitis A antibodies in relation to social factors

  2nd Scientific Congress of the Paediatric Association of SAARC Countries and 7th Annual Scientific Congress of the Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians.

• 2006
  SLMA awards 2006 – Sir Nicholas Attygalle Prize

  Obesity in children …. Is it a problem?
  119th Annual Scientific Sessions of the Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA)
• 2007
  Best local paper of the Congress

  What happens to the heart in rheumatic fever? A long-term follow up study. Proceedings of the 12th Asia Pacific Congress of Paediatrics and 10th Annual Congress of the Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians, March 2007
• August 2016
  Best Poster of the Congress - Effects of long term anti epileptic drugs on serum vitamin D levels and bone profile in a cohort of Sri Lankan children

  Proceedings of the 19th Annual Scientific Congress of the Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians
• 2014
  NRC Merit NRC Merit Award for Scientific Publication – 2014

  A child with a novel de novo mutation in the Aristaless Domain of the Aristaless-Related Homeobox (ARX) gene presenting with ambiguous genitalia and psychomotor delay Sexual development 2014;8(4):156-159
• 2018
  President’s Awards for Scientific Publication – 2016 (Awarded in 2018)

  A recurrent p.Arg92Trp variant in steroidogenic factor-1 (NR5A1) can act as a molecular switch in human sex development Human Molecular Genetics 2016;25(16):3446-3453
• 2019
  NSF Awards 2018 – Certificates of Commendation 2017 (Awarded in 2019)

  Characterization of mutations and sequence variants of Growth Hormone (GH) and Growth Hormone Releasing Hormone Receptor (GHRH-R) in a cohort of Sri Lankan children with GH deficiency. Grant Number: RG/2011/BT/03

• 2009
  Oration - Multifaceted manifestations of Paediatric Endocrinology - Cyril Fernando Memorial Oration 2009 at the 42nd Annual Academic Sessions of the Ceylon College of Physicians

  Cyril Fernando Memorial Oration 2009 at the 42nd Annual Academic Sessions of the Ceylon College of Physicians