CURRICULUM VITAE
This section contains a formal summary of my professional career in surgery and medical education.
While much of this site is devoted to stories, recollections, and observation, the curriculum vitae serves a different purpose: it records what was done, where, and in what capacity — without commentary.
Last Position held
Professor and Head, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo
Professor and Head, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo
Senior Honorary Consultant Surgeon,
The National Hospital of Sri Lanka, Colombo
Retired from University and Government Medical Services from September, 2007
UNDERGRADUATE
MB.BS (Colombo) – 1965
2nd Class Honours in all examinations.
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Distinctions in Pathology, Bacteriology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
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Loos Gold Medal for Pathology
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Naomi Thiagarajah Prize for Midwifery
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Maneckbai Dadabhoy Gold Medal for Midwifery
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Garvin Gold Medal for Operative Surgery
Senior Honorary Consultant Surgeon,
The National Hospital of Sri Lanka, Colombo
Retired from University and Government Medical Services from September, 2007
POSTGRADUATE
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh – 1971
POSTGRADUATE AWARDS
Commonwealth Scholarship for Surgery, United Kingdom.
Trained with Professor Sir Robert Shields and Mr. Norman Gibbon, University of Liverpool,
Professor Harold Ellis and Mr. Robert Cox, Westminster Hospital, London
Nuffield Fellowship for Urology, United Kingdom
Registrar to Mr. Andrew Graham and Sir Alfred Cushieri, University of Glasgow,
Registrar to Sir Geoffrey Chisholm, Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, Hammersmith
WHO Fellowship for Medical Education, U.S.A.
WHO Fellowship for Curriculum Development, Sydney
ADMINISTRITIVEPOSITIONSHELD
In Faculty of Medicine, Colombo
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Chairman, Curriculum Development and Evaluation Committee
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Chairman, Site Development and Building Committee
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Chairman, Module Committee for Curriculum in Nephrology and Urology
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Member, Ethical Review Committee
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Member, Module Committee for Nervous System
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Faculty Delegate to the Department of Medical Education, University of New South Wales,
Sydney, Australia
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Member, Sub-Committee for setting up Faculty Alumni Association
In University of Colombo
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Member, Sports Board, University of Colombo
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Member, Sub Committee on setting up the Medical Faculty, University of Kelaniya
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Member, Committee for Development of a Curriculum for Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayawardenapura.
In Postgraduate Institute of Medicine
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Tutor in Surgery
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Secretary to Boards of Study in Surgery, Forensic Medicine, Radiology
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Member, Boards of Study in Otolaryngology and Dental Surgery
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Organizer and Coordinator, Surgical Journal Club
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Examiner for Master of Surgery in General Surgery, Otolaryngology and Ophthalmology
POSITIONS IN WORK OF NATIONAL INTEREST
Family Planning
Member of the Medical and Research Committee of the National Family Planning Association of Sri Lanka.
Renal Transplantation
Member of the pioneer team responsible for planning and implementation of the first Live Donor Kidney Transplant in Sri Lanka.
WHO Consultant for Assessment of Essential Surgical and Obstetric Services to the North- East Provinces
MEMBERSHIP IN SOCIETIES
Life Member – College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka
Life Member – Sri Lanka Medical Association
Life Member – Sri Lanka Association of Nephrology and Transplantation
Life Member – The Sri Lanka Cancer Society
Life Member – Royal Asiatic Society, Sri Lanka Branch
Life Member – Alumni Association, University of Colombo
Life Member –Wildlife and Nature Protection Society
Member – Asian Society of Transplantation
PRESENTATIONS AT SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
(Selected)
Malaysia–Singapore Congress of Medicine — 1993
Asian Congress of Urology — Bangkok, 1993
World Congress of Asian Surgical Association — 1989
Sri Lanka Medical Association — multiple sessions (1970– 1992)
College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka — Scientific Sessions -Multiple Sessions
PRESENTATIONS AT MEETINGS OF ACADEMIC BODIES
“The Law, Medicine and Blood”
The Medico-Legal Society
“Changes Made to the Sinhala Bible”
The Royal Asiatic Society
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journals
1. Is 'second-look surgery' justified in suspected recurrences of cancer of the stomach?
British Journal of Surgery, 1975, 62:226-230
H.Ellis and G.Jayasekara
2. An Improvised Cystometrograph and its use in Patients with Incontinence due to Compression Fractures of the Dorso-Lumbar Spine.
The Ceylon Medical Journal, 1979, 24:23.
W.S.L.Gunasekera and G.Jayasekara.
3. The First Kidney Transplantation in Sri Lanka.
The Ceylon Medical Journal, 1987, 32:27 -35
Sheriff MHR, Sheriffdeen AH, Geri Jayasekara, et al.
4. Inguinal hernia repair: which suture?
Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1988, 70:11 Geri Jayasekara
5. Living Related Donor Kidney Transplantation in Sri Lanka. Transplantation Proceedings, 1992, 24:1816-1817
R.Sheriff, K.de Abrew, G.Jayasekara, R.Fernando, G.M.Attygalle S.Nanayakkara,
C.P.de Mel, S.Jayasinghe, W.Ransi, A.Peiris, U.Mahametha, M.Anpalahan, L.Rajapakse, and A.H.Sheriffdeen.
6. Sri Lankan Experience With Three Immunosuppressive Protocols in Living Related Donor Kidney Transplantation.
Transplantation Proceedings, 1992, 24: 1818
A.H.Sheriffdeen,K.deAbrew,G.Jayasekara,S.Nanayakkara,
C.P.deMel,S.Jayasinghe, H.Fernando, K.Rajakanthan, A.Weerasinghe, L.Kuruppuarchchi, C.Gunasekera, L.Rajapakse, and R.Sheriff.
7. Is drainage necessary after cholecystectomy?
The Ceylon Medical Journal, 1993, 38:80-82
Geri Jayasekara
8. Treatment of Jehovah's Witnesses.
The Ceylon Medical Journal, 1993, 38:102
Geri Jayasekara
9. Religion, family planning, and sexual behaviour.
The Lancet, 1993, 342:1180
Geri Jayasekara
10. An Early Experience in the Madigan Prostatectomy.
Sri Lanka Journal of Surgery, 1992, 10:3-5
Geri Jayasekara
11. Current Concepts on Prostatism - Physicians have a role in treatment.
The Journal of the Ceylon College of Physicians, 1996, 29:1-5
Geri Jayasekara
12. Jehovah’s Witnesses
Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (Suppl.), 1997, 79:93
Geri Jayasekara
ENEAMAS AND SUPPOSITORIES
The Prescriber, 1974, 2:3-12
GJBW . Jayasekara
Surgical aspects of non-specific urinary infections.
The Prescriber, 1996, 4:5-7 Geri Jayasekara
Archaeopteryx [“ancient wing” or “ancient bird”]
-Does the fossil record prove evolution?
Loris, 1997, XXI :104-106 Geri Jayasekara
PRESENTATIONS AT SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
(Selected)
1. Excision and Autotransplantation of Lingual Thyroids.
27th Malaysia-Singapore Congress of Medicine, with Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 1993, p 117
Geri Jayasekara and R S Drahaman
2. Surgical Wounds Need Not Be Dressed.
27th Malaysia-Singapore Congress of Medicine with Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Malaysia, 1993, p 89
Geri Jayasekara
3. The Madigan Prostatectomy.
2nd Asian Congress of Urology, Bangkok, 1993, pg 41
Geri Jayasekara.
4. Donor Nephrectomy.
Joint Scientific Meeting, The Royal College of Surgeons of England and The College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka, 1995, pg 91 Geri Jayasekara.
5. Treatment of Strangulated Haemorrhoids: A new method.
Ceylon Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Sessions, 1970.
G.Jayasekara, C.Ratnatunga,H.S.Kirthisinghe.
7. A new method to detect spread of carcinoma of the penis to the corpus spongiosum.
Sri Lanka Medical Association, 90th Sessions, 1977, p16-17
Geri Jayasekara
8. Per Operative Diagnosis of Carcinoma of the Breast - a Further Technique.
Sri Lanka Medical Association, 99th Sessions, 1986, p45-46
[S.E.Seneviratne Award for Best Paper]
Geri Jayasekara and LR Amerasekara.
9. A 'One Shot' Technique for Operative Cholangiography.
World Congress of the Asian Surgical Association, 1989, p58 . Geri Jayasekara
10. Is it worth Draining a Cholecystectomy? Kandy Society of Medicine, 1983, p84
Geri Jayasekara
11. Assessment of Pre operative Scrubbing Techniques
Sri Lanka Medical Association, 96th Sessions, 1983, p8-9 G. Jayasekara , L. Mendis
12. Posterior Vertical (Lumbotomy) Approach to the Kidney and Upper Ureter
Sri Lanka Medical Association, 96th Sessions, 1983, p9 Geri Jayasekara
13. First experience with Chronic Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Medical Association, 97th Session, 1984, p23
Sheriff MHR, De Mel WCP, Geri Jayasekara, Sheriffdeen AH
14. The Retrieval Operation (Donor Nephrectomy).
Sri Lanka Medical Association, 99th Session, 1986, p49
Geri Jayasekara
15. Follow up Study of Sri Lanka Kidney Transplant Patients.
Sri Lanka Medical Association, 100th Session, 1987, p41
Sheriff MHR, Sheriffdeen AH, Geri Jayasekara, De Mel C, Gunasekare U, Dharmadasa K.
16. An analysis of the composition of urinary calculi in patients. investigated for urolithiasis.
Sri Lanka Medical Association, 100th Session, 1987, p41
De Mel Tara, Geri Jayasekara, Sheriff MHR.
17. Kidney Preservation for Cadaver Transplantation: A Sri Lankan Perspective
Sri Lanka Medical Association, 103rd Sessions, 1990, p31.
T de Mel, R Sheriff, AH Sheriffdeen, G.Jayasekara.
18. Experience with three immunosuppressive protocols in living related donor kidney transplantation.
Sri Lanka Medical Association, 105th Sessions, 1992, p26-27
K de Abrew, S Nanayakkara, G Jayasekara.
19. Need Surgical Wounds Be Dressed? The College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka, Scientific Sessions 1992. Geri Jayasekara
20. Local Anaesthesia for Thyroidectomy - a modified technique.
The College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka, Scientific Sessions 1993. Geri Jayasekara