Sisira Siribaddana ([email protected])

Professor Sisira Hemananda Siribaddana, MBBS, MD, FCCP, FRCP, is Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, and Honorary Consultant Physician at Teaching Hospital Anuradhapura. He was the first permanent Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, serving from 2014 to 2019.

Professor Siribaddana has extensive experience in medical education, research, ethics and academic leadership. He has taught and supervised more than 3,000 medical students and 75 physicians in training, and has supervised seven completed PhDs. He has served on the Board of Management and as an MD Medicine examiner at the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo. He was instrumental in establishing research ethics oversight and publication-based postgraduate programmes at Rajarata University.

His research career spans chronic kidney disease in agricultural communities, snakebite, tropical and infectious diseases, toxicology, diabetes, mental health, environmental exposures and public health. He co-founded the Sri Lankan Twin Registry and contributed to the Wellcome Trust-supported Colombo Twin and Singleton Survey.

He has authored more than 260 research publications, including over 210 indexed in PubMed, as well as books and national clinical guidelines. His work has appeared in international journals including The Lancet, BMJ, PLoS Medicine and the British Journal of Psychiatry. He has served as an editor, editorial adviser and peer reviewer for several medical journals.

His professional interests include research ethics, responsible conduct of research, medical education, public health and equitable healthcare.