Awards and Orations

Awards

• 2006
  Presidential award for scientific research
• 2004
  Presidential award for scientific research
• 2014
  Channa Gooneratne Award

  for cancer research for the publication titled “Prevalence and significance of prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia in surgical specimens” in Indian Journal of Cancer.
• 1997
  Daphne Attygalle Award for the best paper in pathology

  presented at the 110th Academic Sessions of the Sri Lanka Medical Association 1997 for the paper titled “Gastrointestinal lymphomas of mucosa associated lymphoid tissue (MALT)- a report of 7 Sri Lankan cases”
• 1997
  College of Pathologists of Sri Lanka award for the best paper

  presented at the Annual Academic Scientific Sessions 1997, for the paper titled “Should Sri Lanka adopt a single histological grading system for breast carcinoma? A comparison of Nottingham grading with other grading systems”.
• 1998
  Daphne Attygalle Award for the best paper in pathology

  presented at the 111th Academic Sessions of the Sri Lanka Medical Association 1998, for the paper titled “Idiopathic granulomatous prostatitis – a rare mimic of malignancy”.
• 1998
  Daphne Attygalle Award for the best paper in pathology

  presented at the 111th Academic Sessions of the Sri Lanka Medical Association 1998 for the paper titled “A comparison of clinical diagnosis and necropsy findings in 46 neonatal post- mortems”.
• 1998
  John St. George award for the best overall paper

  presented at the 31st Annual Academic Sessions of the Sri Lanka College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 1998, for the paper titled “Necropsy examination in macerated stillbirths: an analysis of 100 autopsies”.
• 1998
  John St. George award for the best overall paper

  by a postgraduate at the 31st Annual Academic Sessions of the Sri Lanka College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 1998 for the paper titled “Do request forms of gynaecological surgical specimens provide essential information required for histopathology reporting”.
• 1999
  College of Pathologists of Sri Lanka award for the best paper presented

  at the Annual Academic Scientific Sessions 1999 for the paper titled “Assessment of cadre requirements of histopathologists: is there a hidden increase in workload to be considered?”
• 1999
  College of Pathologists of Sri Lanka award for the best paper presented

  at the Annual Academic Scientific Sessions 1999, for the poster titled “Giant cell fibroblastoma- a case report”.
• 1999
  Wilson Peiris award at the112th Anniversary Academic Sessions of the Sri Lanka Medical Association

  for the paper titled “Fine needle aspiration cytology of prostatic disease with histological correlation”.
• 1999
  HKT Fernando award at the 112th Anniversary Academic Sessions of the Sri Lanka Medical Association

  for the paper titled “ Colorectal carcinoma in young patients: A Sri Lankan perspective”.
• 2000
  Daphne Attygalle Award for the best paper in pathology

  presented at the 113th Academic Sessions of the Sri Lanka Medical Association 2000 for the paper titled “Granulomatous lesions of the prostate are they associated with cancer?”
• 2004
  College of Pathologists award for the best poster at the College of Pathologists of Sri Lanka

  Academic Sessions 2004 for the paper titled “Review of clinicopathological features of 239 patients with carcinoma of the prostate”.