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Professor Athula Sumathipala
Prof. Sumathipala entered the Medical Faculty of University of Colombo from Nalanda College in Colombo. In 1980, he graduated as a Medical Doctor gaining a degree of Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, followed by a Diploma of Family medicine (DFM) at Post Graduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo in 1985. Prof. Sumathipala obtained his MD from the same university in 1990. Later in 2004, he obtained a PhD from University of London.
Prof. Sumathipala is founded the Institute for Research and Development (https://ird.lk), and founder of the Sri Lankan Twin Registry (https://sltr.ird.lk/). He had authored many books and publications in Psychiatry. He also works for the World Health Organization in advisory capacity.
He migrated to the UK in 1992 and was re-trained as a Psychiatrist at the Maudesley and Bethlem Royal Hospitals and obtained the MRCPsych and completed the specialist training as a Liaison Psychiatrist. He was a Research Associate (Section of Epidemiology) at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, London from 1999 to 2004 and completed a PhD from University of London in 2004. He also worked as a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College from 2008 to 2009.
In 1997 when he founded the Institute for Research and Development in Sri Lanka (IRD). He moved to Sri Lanka to serve as the Director of the IRD while remaining as a Honorary Senior Lecturer, IoP, Kings College, London from 2009 to 2014. Following the Tsunami in 2004, Athula also worked as the Co-ordinator (Psychosocial Affairs), Centre for National Operations on Tsunami in Sri Lanka.
He was awarded the HB Williams Traveling Professorship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists in 2007. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Sri Lankan College of General Practitioners in 2008. He was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK in 2018.
The Institute for Research and Development he founded in Sri Lanka received a merit award for ‘excellence in multidisciplinary international collaborations’ and Professor Sumathipala received ‘outstanding leadership, from National Science Foundation in 2018.
Professor Sumathipala is also an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Emeritus Professor of Global Mental Health, Kings College London, Hon. Director, Institute for Research and Development, Sri Lanka and a Visiting Professor in Psychiatry and Biomedical Research at the Faculty of Medicine, Kotelawala Defence University, Sri Lanka.


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