Research & Grants

Research Interests

  • Non communicable diseases
  • Physiology of menopause
  • Medical education
  • Exercise physiology

Research Grants

  • College of Physicians Research Award (2019). Sri Lanka Elderly Study: Phase 1 (Conducted by the department of Physiology, Faculty of medicine, Colombo)
  • NSF research Grant 2011 -co-investigator -The effects of vitamin B12 deficiency on the central and peripheral neurophysiological parameters in patients on long term metformin treatment
  • University of Colombo Research Grant 2017- AP/3/2/2017/SG/12 for the study titled ‘Comparison of the effects of conventional chest physiotherapy breathing exercises with different positive expiratory pressure breathing exercises in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery in Sri Lanka’.
  • University of Colombo Research Grant 2011-co-investigator – Early detection of statin induced peripheral neuropathy using clinical, biochemical and neurophysiological parameters
  • College of Physicians Research Award (1997). A study of nephrolithiasis in patients attending the NHSL
  • University Research Grant (1997). A study of nephrolithiasis in patients attending the NHS