CoMSAA

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Obituary - Tissa Kappagoda.

Photo taken in 1960

Tissa Kappagoda - 1960 entrants batch.

Passed away on the 28th January 2015.

Request from family not to disturb them till they come to terms with their loss.

Two 'Order of Australia' awards to two members of the 1960 Entrants Batch.

1. Prof Derryk Frewin was awarded this a few years back.

Photo taken in 1960.

2. Dr. Kathir Nadanachandran has been given this award this year.
Here is the citation for the latter's award :-

Photo taken in 1960

For significant service to the international community through humanitarian outreach programs, particularly health care and medical training.

Founder and Coordinator, Sai Australia Medical Unit, Sri Sathya Sai Organisation, since 1998; Zone Medical Coordinator, Pacific Region, since 2005. Organiser and volunteer, annual free medical camps to Fiji, since 2006; Volunteer teacher and clinician, Neurosurgery Unit, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Bangalore, India, 2007-2011; Volunteer, medical camps in Sri Lanka after tsunami, 2005; Teacher, Human Values Program, over 20 years; Scripture Teacher.

Volunteer Neurosurgeon, annual medical visits to Fiji, Pacific Island Project, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, 2001-2004; Volunteer, additional community-funded neurosurgical visits to Fiji, since 2004.
Organiser, training of neurosurgeons, neurologists, radiologists and nurses from Fiji at the Canberra Hospital, many years.

Clinical Associate Professor, Medical School, Australian National University, since 2010; Senior Lecturer, 1995-2010.
Director, Neurosurgical Unit, Canberra Hospital, 2001-2009; Supervisor, Training of Registrars, 2000-2009; Visiting Medical Officer, 1980-2011.

Visiting Neurosurgeon, National Capital Hospital, 1992-2011; Calvary Private Hospital and John James Private, 1980-2011.
Founding Partner, Canberra Neurosurgical Centre, 1991-2011.
Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, since 1977.

Member, Australian Medical Association, 1984-2011; Association of Surgeons; Neurosurgical Society of Australasia; Indian Neurological Society.
Vice-President, Australian Capital Territory Visiting Medical Officers Association, 1998-2011; Founding Member, 1998.

President, Canberra Tamil Association, 1985, founding and active member, since 1983. Community Leader, Advocate and Lobbyist, over 36 years.

http://www.sbs.Johnscom.au/podcasts/Podcasts/tamil/episode/388142/Order-of-Australia-recipient-Dr-Nadana-Chandran

Obituary - PROFESSOR A. STANLEY DISSANAIKE Former Dean of Faculty of the Medicine .

Dear alumni member,

This is to inform you of the sad demise of

PROFESSOR A. STANLEY DISSANAIKE

Former Dean of Faculty of the Medicine

Emeritus Professor, Head of the Department of Parasitology in Sri Lanka & Malaysia,

The Funeral Service will be held at his residence

No. 28, Welikadawatte, Nawala Road, Rajagiriya

Thursday 29th January at 1.30 p.m.

Cortege leaves thereafter to General Cemetery, Borella for cremation at 3.00 p.m.

Joint Secretaries

CoMSAA

Colombo Medical School Alumni Association

Faculty of Medicine
University of Colombo
Sri Lanka

comsaa2011@gmail.com

www.comsaa.org

Immediate assistance needed

CoMSAA 2011 comsaa2011@gmail.com

3:46 PM (14 hours ago)

Dear Alumni Member,

On 24th January a fire broke out causing major damage to a room in the Bloemfontein Hostel. Fortunately no one was hurt but the two occupants of the room have lost all their belongings that were in that room. This includes their medical books, lecture notes, stethoscopes, clinical coats and other personal equipment.

These two students are currently in their fourth year and are having ongoing clinical rotations and will be sitting their module examinations in one month's time.

The Medical Faculty Students' Union has sent us a request for assistance on behalf of these two students with a view to replacing some of their textbooks and clinical equipment so that they could continue with their academic activities. A list of textbooks that had been lost are as follows;

Book Title	Number of Books Required
Abdominal X-ray Made Easy	1
Bailey & Love - Surgery	2
Bennett & Brown Clinical Pharmacology,	2
BNF 64 version	1
Chest X-ray Made Easy	1
Colour Atlas of Medical Parasitology	1
Concise Pathology	1
Couran's Histopathology	1
Davidson's principles and Practice of Medicine	1
ECG Made Easy	2
Ellis Clinical Anatomy	1
Essential Haematology	1
Ganong's Physiology	2
Grant's Atlas	1
Guyton & Hall Physiology	1
Handbook of Clinical Psychiatry: A Practical Guide	1
Hutchison's Clinical Methods	1
Illustrated Gynaecology	1
Illustrated Obstetrics	1
Illustrated Paediatrics	2
Kumar and Clarke Clinical Medicine	2
Langman's Embryology	2
Last's Anatomy	1
Lippincott’s Biochemistry	1
Macleod's Clinical Examination	2
Norman & Browse - Surgery	2
Oxford Core Textbook of Psychiatry	2
Oxford Handbook of Medicine	1
Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry	1
Oxford Handbook of Surgery	1
Pharmacology at a Glance	1
Pocket Medical Dictionary	1
Review of Medical Microbiology	1
Robbin's pathology	2
Snell's Clinical NeuroAnatomy	2
Talley & O’Connor Clinical Examination	1
Ten Teacher’s Gynaecology	1
Ten Teacher’s Obstetrics	1

In addition, they will need to purchase new stethoscopes and clinical coats for their clinical rotations. They have lost most of their lecture notes of the modules done so far and will probably need to photocopy them again.

Therefore if you are willing to assist these two students by providing any of these resource material or supporting them in purchasing new material please be kind enough to contact the Co-Secretaries of CoMSAA via reply to this email or by calling the numbers below

0714958897 - Dr. Sameera Gunawardena

0718453865 - Dr. Jayantha Dayasena

Your support to help these students get back into their routine following this unfortunate incident will be gratefully appreciated.

Thank you,

Dr. Sameera Gunawardena & Dr. Jayantha Dayasena

Hony. Joint Secretaries

Colombo Medical School Alumni Association

Faculty of Medicine
University of Colombo
Sri Lanka

comsaa2011@gmail.com

www.comsaa.org

Monday, September 8, 2014

CoMSAA Reunion & Academic Sessions 2014.

email from

Lucky Abey

Sep 7 (2 days ago)

Please click on the following link to see pictures from the CoMSAA Reunion & Academic Sessions held on 7 September 2014 at The Blue Water, Wadduwa, Sri Lanka.

http://www.shutterfly.com/share/received/welcome.sfly?sid=2AbuXDFo5YslHZk

(If the slide show does not work, click on the first picture and see one by one following the arrow)

Some alumni with their families were at the hotel from Saturday 6 September evening. First few pictures are from Saturday evening when an informal sing along was held prior to dinner.

On Sunday at the academic sessions, Prof. Priyani Soysa was the Chief Guest. There were many alumni who had come from overseas.

Eight members of the 1962 Entrants' Batch attended. The group photograph shows the attendees - (From L to R) Revo Drahaman, Sura Fernando, Lakshman Abeyagunawardene, Lalantha Amarasinghe, Sanath Lamabadusuriya, Bandula Jayasekara, Pramilla Senanayake and J.C. Fernando.

This message has been posted on our batch blog as well. Click on:

http://colombomedgrads1962.blogspot.com