Senaka Rajapakse

Senaka Rajapakse (born 1966) is a Sri Lankan academic, researcher and clinician.[1] He is senior professor in Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and the director of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, Sri Lanka.

Senaka Rajapakse
NationalitySri Lankan
OccupationProfessor in Medicine
EmployerUniversity of Colombo

Education

Senaka Rajapakse graduated from Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo in 1993.[2] Rajapakse received Doctor of Medicine from University of Colombo and membership from the Royal College of Physicians UK. He had training in General (Internal) Medicine and Intensive care at National University Hospital, Singapore.

Educational and Professional Activities

Rajapakse is a consultant physician in General (Internal) Medicine in department of Medicine, University of Colombo and honorary consultant at University medical unit, National Hospital of Sri Lanka.[3] He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London and Edinburgh, the American College of Physicians, the Ceylon College of Physicians, and the National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka. He is President Elect[4] of the Ceylon College of Physicians for 2021, Past-President of Sri Lanka College of Internal Medicine.[5] He is the Regional Adviser[6] for Colombo to the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He is co-editor of the Ceylon Medical Journal [7] and is on the editorial board of several journals. He has supervised and trained numerous specialist medical trainees and research students. He is the founder member of the Hypertensive society in Sri Lanka and many other medical societies in Sri Lanka. He introduced virtual learning to medical faculty Colombo obtaining funding and developing necessary virtual learning martial for student and lecturers.

Research

Since early days of his medical career is has been involved in research. Initially on Yellow Oleander poisoning. Then Tropical infections like Dengue, Malaria, Leptospirosis. He has worked with collaborations with Oxford University research team. In addition to the research papers, books and multimedia publications has contributed to popular medical book, Kumar and Clark's 9th edition[8]

Rajapakse has won numerous research awards, including many Presidential Awards for research, the National Science Foundation Research Award for Scientific Excellence in 2017, the University of Colombo award for Excellence in Research 2002, 2011, & 2015, and the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in research 2017. He was awarded the CVCD (Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Directors, Sri Lanka) Most Outstanding Senior Researcher in Health Sciences Award in 2016,[9] which is a lifetime award for excellence in research.

Publications
  • Samarakoon L, Fernando T, Rodrigo C, Rajapakse S. Learning styles and approaches to learning among medical undergraduates and postgraduates. BMC medical education. 2013 Dec;13(1):1-6. (Cited308 times, according to Google Scholar [10])
  • Rajapakse S, Rodrigo C, Rajapakse A. Atypical manifestations of chikungunya infection. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 2010 Feb 1;104(2):89-96. (Cited 218 times, according to Google Scholar.[10])
  • Fernando D, Rodrigo C, Rajapakse S. Primaquine in vivax malaria: an update and review on management issues. Malaria journal. 2011 Dec;10(1):1-2.(Cited 174 times, according to Google Scholar.[10])

Books
  1. Handbook of Critical Care 2009. ISBN 978-955-51749-0-9[11]
  2. Case discussions in critical care 2009. ISBN 978-955-51749-2-3[12]
  3. HIV and Women. ISBN 978-955-51749-1-6[13]
  4. Update on four tropical infectious diseases.[14]
  5. MCQs in Cardiovascular Medicine.[15]
  6. A Guide to Internship in Medicine.[16]
  7. A Primer of Geriatric Medicine, An introduction to geriatric medicine.[17]
  8. A Manual for Developing E-Learning Material.[18]
  9. National Hypertension Guidelines – Sri Lanka 2003[19]

Professional affiliations and honors
  1. President, Sri Lankan College of Internal Medicine 2018[20]
  2. President, Ceylon College of Physicians 2021[21]
  3. Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh – 2010[22]
  4. Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, London Membership[22]
  5. Fellow, American College of Physicians[22]
  6. Fellow, Ceylon College of Physicians[23]
  7. Co-editor, National Hypertension Guidelines Committee, 2001-2003
  8. Fellow of National Academy of Science Sri Lanka[24]

References
  1. "RAJAPAKSE, SENAKA". Directory - National Academy of Sciences - Sri Lanka. Retrieved 2022-03-08.
  2. Rajapakse, Senaka. "LinkedIn". lk.LinkedIn.com.
  3. Rajapakse, Senaka. "LinkedIn". lk.linkedIn.com.
  4. Rajapakse, Senaka. "Ceylon College of Physicians". Ceylon College of Physicians.
  5. https://slcim.lk/
  6. Rajapakse, Senaka (14 May 2013). "Royal College of Physicians Edin". Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
  7. Rajapakse, Senaka. "Ceylon Medical journal". Ceylon Medical Journal.
  8. Rajapakse, Senaka. "Kumar and Clark".
  9. Rajapakse, Senaka. "University of Colombo, Sri Lanka". University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
  10. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&q=Senaka+Rajapakse&btnG=#d=gs_cit&u=%2Fscholar%3Fq%3Dinfo%3AhrPiL5yMFnkJ%3Ascholar.google.com%2F%26output%3Dcite%26scirp%3D0%26hl%3Den Google Scholar Author page, Accessed Dec. 15 2021
  11. Rajapakse, Senaka. ISBN.
  12. Rajapakse, Senaka. "ISBN". University of Colombo.
  13. Rajapakse, Senaka. "ISBN". University of Colombo.
  14. Rajapakse, Senaka. "University of Colombo, Sri Lanka". University of Colombo.
  15. Rajapakse, Senaka. "Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka".
  16. Rajapakse, Senaka (2014). Kumaran Sri Lanka (first ed.). Sri Lanka: Kumaran.
  17. Rajapakse, Senaka (2015). Kumaran Sri Lanka (first ed.). Sri. Lanka: Kumaran. p. 1.
  18. Rajapakse, Senaka. "Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka".
  19. Rajapakse, Senaka. "National Hypertension Society".
  20. Rajapakse, Senaka. "Sri Lanka College of Internal Medicine". SLCIM.
  21. Rajapakse, Senaka. "Ceylon College of Physicians". CCP.
  22. Rajapakse, Senaka. "University of Colombo, Sri Lanka". University of Colombo.
  23. Rajapakse, Senaka. "Ceylon College of Physicians". University of Colombo.
  24. "National Academy of Science-Sri Lanka". nasal.org.
  1. https://med.cmb.ac.lk/
  2. http://www.nhsl.health.gov.lk/web/index.php?lang=en
  3. https://nassl.org/
  4. https://cmj.sljol.info/
  5. https://www.ccp.lk/
  6. https://slcim.lk/
  7. https://cmb.ac.lk/noc/
  8. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HXOWjB8AAAAJ&hl=en
  9. https://med.cmb.ac.lk/clinmed/research/
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