Prof. Arosha Dissanayake

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Arosha is a professor in medicine and a specialist physician. He is a past president of both the Ceylon College of Physicians in 2022 and Galle Medical Association in 2019.

He is the regional international advisor for the Royal College of Physicians, UK. He is the International Editor of “Clinical Medicine”, the journal of the Royal College of Physicians, UK. His clinical and research interests include diabetes, tropical medicine and medical humanities, He delivered the Prof T Varaganam Oration of the Sri Lanka College of Internal Medicine in 2023 and Prof Carlo Fonseka Oration of the Physiological Society of Sri Lanka. He has served on the Boards of Study in Medicine, Toxicology and Sports Medicine of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine. 

His interests beyond medicine include literature, music and philosophy. He is an associate member of the Royal School of Music and co-founded the Southern Symphonia a musical ensemble which performs at medical concerts as well as conducts music for healing programmes. He is also a passed finalist of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. During his undergraduate days, he worked as an investigative journalist for the Sunday Times newspaper writing on the civil war and the political landscape.

Presently he promotes “compassionate leadership” within the medical profession.