CONSULTANTS

Dr. Niroshan Senevirtne is the Resident Specialist Urological Surgeon of SJGH. He joined SJGH in 2013. He has been a Board Certified Consultant for the past 09 years. He has obtained his overseas training from Royal Free Hospital London, UK. He has worked at Teaching Hospital Anuradapura before joining Sri Jayewardenepura General Hospital. He is the editor of Nephrology Urology Transplant Society. He has published 12 papers (BMJ, CMJ, SLJS, and SLJUS) and presented 65 Abstracts on his scientific research.

He joined SJGH in 1995. He has been a Board Certified Consultant Pathologist for the past 18 years. He obtained his overseas training from Austin Hospital Melbourne Australia. He has worked at NHSL and CSTH before joining SJGH. He also has been an Acting Deputy Director at SJGH previously. Currently he serves as a Board Member of SJGH.

She joined SJGH in 2011. She has been a Board Certified Consultant for the past 16 years. She has worked as a Consultant Anaesthetist at General Hospital Ampara and Teaching Hospital Mahamodara, Galle before joining SJGH She obtained her overseas training from the Old Church Hospital, Esser, United Kingdom. She was a council member in Sri Lanka College of Anaesthesiologists in 2009.

She joined SJGH in year 1995 and has been a Board Certified Consultant Radiologist for the past 12 years. She obtained her overseas training at the Department of Diagnostic Neuro-Radiology, University of Yale, United States of America. She structured the mammography unit and pioneered the screening and diagnostic mammography programme in SJGH. She has been a member of the Board of Study in Radiology in PGIM from 2012-2014. She has several national and international publications in peer reviewed journals to her credit.

Dr. R.A.S.T. Rupasinghe joined SJGH as a medical officer, and specialised in ENT, Head and Neck Surgery. She was the first ENT surgeon to conduct bilateral cochlear implant surgery in Sri Lanka successfully. 

She has been a Board Certified Consultant for the past 10 years. She obtained her overseas training from Tengu Ampuan Rahuman Teaching Hospital Klang Malaysia.

He joined SJGH in 2013. He has been a Board certified Consultant for past 09 years. He obtained his overseas training from Essex cardiothoracic Centre United Kingdom. He has worked at NHSL before joining SJGH. He is a member of Sri Lanka Heart Association, College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka and International Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery. He was awarded as Most Outstanding Sri Lankan in Medicine year 2014 for key hole cardiac surgery. He has pioneered minimally invasive cardiac surgery in the country and performed MIDCAB surgery, minimally invasive hole in the heart and minimally invasive mitral valve repair surgery.

Dr.Roshini Karunanayake joined Sri Jayewardenepura General Hospital in 1998 as a medical officer. She then proceeded to complete Diploma in Child Health and MD Paediatrics. She was trained at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospital NHS Trust, UK and Board Certified in 2015. She has work experience at Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children, Base hospital Avissawella and Teaching Hospitals in Anuradhapura and Karapitiya. She has pioneered many clinics for differently abled children at SJGH and organized the first ever Abilities day event in this hospital to encourage the children attending these clinics. She has organized events for world Down syndrome day and world Autism day.