Janaka de Silva

H. Janaka de Silva FRCP is a Sri Lankan physician and academic. He is Senior Professor of Medicine at the University of Kelaniya.[1][2]

Janaka de Silva
Born
Colombo, Sri Lanka
NationalitySri Lankan
EducationRoyal College Colombo
University of Colombo
University of Oxford
OccupationProfessor of medicine
EmployerUniversity of Kelaniya
TitleVidyajyothi
Parent(s)P. T. De Silva, Kusuma de Silva (née Weerasekera)

Janaka de Silva was educated at Royal College, Colombo and holds degrees from the universities of Colombo and Oxford.[3] He had his higher specialist clinical training at the John Radcliffe Hospital.

De Silva succeeded Carlo Fonseka as Dean of Medicine at Kelaniya, a post he held for nine years.[4] He was also Director of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine (PGIM), University of Colombo,[5] and a member of the University Grants Commission of Sri Lanka. Before becoming its Director he chaired a number of boards in the PGIM,[6] where he and colleagues established the first formal training programme for gastroenterologists in Sri Lanka. Together with Kemal Deen and a few others he set up a liver transplant service at the Colombo North Teaching Hospital.[7]

De Silva’s most influential contributions to research stem from his abiding interest in health problems prevalent in Sri Lanka.[8] He was Chairman of the National Research Council of Sri Lanka from 2013 to 2019.[9] He holds several editorial appointments[10][11] and is on committees in health and research organizations including the WHO, Wellcome Trust and National Institute of Health Research, UK.[12][13][14][15][16]

He was President of the Ceylon College of Physicians in 2004, twenty years after his father, P. T. de Silva.[17] In addition to awards and fellowships from several academic and professional bodies,[18][19] de Silva was conferred the title Vidyajyothi - the highest national honor for science.[20][15]

References
  1. Prof Hithanadura Janaka De Silva
  2. Those deadly bites
  3. , Previous awards to Wingate Scholars accessed 29 May 2011
  6. Archived 4 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine, Staff news—New Board of Management of Postgraduate Institute of Medicine
  7. "Trailblazing liver transplant service has now blossomed to meet a vital need by Kumudini Hettiarachchi The Sunday Times Sunday February 19, 2012". sundaytimes.lk. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
  9. "Former Chairmen". National Research Council: Sri Lanka. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  10. Archived 5 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine Sri Lanka Medical Association Council 2011 accessed 27 May 2011
  12. "l SACR Governance". Archived from the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
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