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Senaka Rajapakse

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Senaka Rajapakse
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Born
🏳️ NationalitySri Lankan
💼 Occupation
Professor in Medicine
👔 EmployerUniversity of Colombo

Senaka Rajapakse is a Sri Lankan academic, researcher and clinician. He is senior professor in Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and the director of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, Sri Lanka.

Education

Senaka Rajapakse graduated from Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo in 1993.[1] Rajapakse received Doctor of Medicine from University of Colombo and membership from the Royal College of Physicians UK. He had training in General (Internal) Medicine and Intensive care at National University Hospital, Singapore.

Educational and Professional Activities

Rajapakse is a consultant physician in General (Internal) Medicine in department of Medicine, University of Colombo and honorary consultant at University medical unit, National Hospital of Sri Lanka.[2] He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London and Edinburgh, the American College of Physicians, the Ceylon College of Physicians, and the National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka. He is President Elect[3] of the Ceylon College of Physicians for 2021, Past-President of Sri Lanka College of Internal Medicine [4]. He is the Regional Adviser[5]for Colombo to the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He is co-editor of the Ceylon Medical Journal [6] and is on the editorial board of several journals. He has superburghvised and trained numerous specialist medical trainees and research students. He is the founder member of the Hypertensive society in Sri Lanka and many other medical societies in Sri Lanka. He introduced virtual learning to medical faculty Colombo obtaining funding and developing necessary virtual learning martial for student and lecturers.

Research

Since early days of his medical career is has been involved in research. Initially on Yellow Oleander poisoning. Then Tropical infections like Dengue, Malaria, Leptospirosis. He has worked with collaborations with Oxford University research team. Rajapakse contributes to international research by reviewing articles for connecting research and researchers (ORCID)[7] , publons [8] and Sri Lankan Longdom publishing [9]. inanition to the research papers, books and multimedia publications has contributed to popular medical book, Kumar and Clark's 9th edition [10]

Rajapakse has many publications in peer-reviewed journals and I have listed some for interested readers. He has won numerous research awards, including many Presidential Awards for research, the National Science Foundation Research Award for Scientific Excellence in 2017, the University of Colombo award for Excellence in Research 2002, 2011, & 2015, and the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in research 2017. He was the SCOPUS Most Prolific Author for 2011-2017. He was awarded the CVCD (Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Directors, Sri Lanka) Most Outstanding Senior Researcher in Health Sciences Award in 2016,[11] which is a lifetime award for excellence in research. He was ranked in the top 2% of scientists around the world in a recent paper from Stanford University, published in the journal PLoS Biology.[12] This study has classified the scientists based on their career-long citation impact until the end of 2019.

Publications

Citation report
Total publications 140
Total citations 3753
citation without self-citations ?
i10 index 78
H index 34[13]
  1. Anti-Anti-digoxin Fab fragments in cardiotoxicity induced by ingestion of yellow oleander: a randomised controlled trial,The Lancet 355 (9208), 967-972.[14]
  2. Acute yellow oleander (Thevetia peruviana) poisoning: cardiac arrhythmias, electrolyte disturbances, and serum cardiac glycoside concentrations on presentation to hospital, Heart 83 (3), 301-306.[15]
  3. Deaths due to absence of an affordable antitoxin for plant poisoning,The Lancet 362 (9389), 1041-1044.[16]
  4. Guidelines for management of Yellow Oleander Poisoning, Journal of Ceylon College of Physicians, September 2000 34: 20-22.[17]
  5. Age bias in clinical trials of Parkinson DiseaseJournal of the American Geriatric Society, Volume 56 issue 12 December 2008,Pages 2353-2354.[18]
  6. Is investigating for Carotid Artery disease warranted in non-Lacunar Infarcts, Stroke 2011;42:217-220.[19]
  7. Learning styles and approaches to learning among medical undergraduates and postgraduates. BMC Medical Education March 2013 [20]
  8. Atypical manifestations of chikungunya infection. Tropical Medicine and Hygiene February 2010 [21]
  9. Chemoprophylaxis in malaria: drugs, evidence of efficacy and costs [22]
  10. Primaquine in vivax malaria: an update and review on management issues [23]
  11. Work related complaints of neck, shoulder and arm among computer office workers: a cross-sectional evaluation of prevalence and risk factors in a developing country[24]
  12. Work-related complaints of arm, neck and shoulder among computer office workers in an Asian country: prevalence and validation of a risk-factor questionnaire [25]
  13. The 'hidden' burden of malaria: cognitive impairment following infection. [26]
  14. Treatment of dengue fever. [27]
  15. Dengue shock [28]
  16. Corticosteroids in the treatment of dengue illness [29]
  17. Diagnosis of Leptospirosis: Comparison between Microscopic Agglutination Test, IgM-ELISA and IgM Rapid Immunochromatography Test. [30]
  18. Cardiac involvement in leptospirosis [31]
  19. Pharmacological management of tetanus: an evidence-based review [32]
  20. Clinical manifestations of scrub typhus [33]
  21. Scrub Typhus: Pathophysicology, clinical manifestations and prognosis.[34]
  22. Drug treatment of scrub typhus [35]
  23. Fixed Low-Dose Triple Combination Antihypertensive Medication vs Usual Care for Blood Pressure Control in Patients With Mild to Moderate Hypertension in Sri Lanka [36]
  24. HIV, poverty and women [37]
  25. Antibiotics for human toxoplasmosis: a systematic review of randomized trials [38]
  26. Leukotriene receptor antagonists for chronic urticaria: a systematic review [39]
  27. Chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology in Sri Lanka [40]
  28. Tafenoquine for preventing relapse in people with Plasmodium vivax malaria [41]
  29. Caregiver strain and symptoms of depression among principal caregivers of patients with schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder in Sri Lanka [42]
  30. Current Status of HIV/AIDS in South Asia [43]
  31. Changes in full blood count parameters in leptospirosis: a prospective study [44]
  32. Symptoms of anxiety and depression in adolescent students; a perspective from Sri Lanka [45]
  33. Current immunological and molecular tools for leptospirosis: diagnostics, vaccine design, and biomarkers for predicting severity [46]
  34. Awareness of breast cancer among adolescent girls in Colombo, Sri Lanka: a school based study [47]
  35. A meta‐analysis of magnesium for tetanus [48]
  36. Myocardial infarction following cannabis induced coronary vasospasm [49]
  37. The 'antisocial' person: an insight in to biology, classification and current evidence on treatment [50]
  38. Current Evidence on the Use of Antifilarial Agents in the Management of bancroftian Filariasis [51]
  39. Incidences and clinical outcomes of acute kidney injury in ICU: a prospective observational study in Sri Lanka [52]

Books

  1. Handbook of Critical Care 2009. ISBN: 978-955-51749-0-9[53]
  2. Case discussions in critical care 2009. ISBN: 978-955-51749-2-3[54]
  3. HIV and Women. ISBN:978-955-51749-1-6[55]
  4. Update on four tropical infectious diseases.[56]
  5. MCQs in Cardiovascular Medicine.[57]
  6. A Guide to Internship in Medicine.[58]
  7. A Primer of Geriatric Medicine, An introduction to geriatric medicine.[59]
  8. A Manual for Developing E-Learning Material.[60]
  9. National Hypertension Guidelines – Sri Lanka 2003[61]

Professional affiliations and honors

  1. President, Sri Lankan College of Internal Medicine 2018[62]
  2. President, Ceylon College of Physicians 2021[63]
  3. Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh – 2010[64]
  4. Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, London Membership[65]
  5. Fellow, American College of Physicians[66]
  6. Fellow, Ceylon College of Physicians[67]
  7. Co-editor, National Hypertension Guidelines Committee, 2001-2003
  8. Fellow of National Academy of Science Sri Lanka [68]

References

  1. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka. "LinkedIn". lk.LinkedIn.com.
  2. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka. "LinkedIn". lk.linkedIn.com.
  3. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka. "Ceylon College of Physicians". Ceylon College of Physicians.
  4. ↑ https://slcim.lk/
  5. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka. "Royal College of Physicians Edin". Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
  6. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka. "Ceylon Medical journal". Ceylon Medical Journal.
  7. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka. "Connecting Research and Researchers".
  8. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka. "Web of Science".
  9. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka. "Promoting Academic Excellence and Seamless Access to Scholarly Knowledge".
  10. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka. "Kumar and Clark".
  11. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka. "University of Colombo, Sri Lanka". University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
  12. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (2020). "PLOS". PLOS Biology. John P. A. Ioannidis , Kevin W. Boyack, Jeroen Baas. 18 (10): e3000918. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918. PMC 7567353 Check |pmc= value (help). PMID 33064726 Check |pmid= value (help).
  13. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka. "Googlescholar". Google Scholar.
  14. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka. "Lancet". The Lancet. 355 (9208): 967.
  15. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka. "Heart". Heart. 83 (3): 301.
  16. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka. "Lancet". The Lancet. 362 (9389): 1041.
  17. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (September 2000). "JCCP". Journal of Ceylon College of Physicians. 34: 20.
  18. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (December 2008). "Age Bias in Clinical Trials of Parkinson's Disease Treatment". American Geriatric Society. 56 (12): 2353–4. doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.2008.02024.x. PMID 19093937. Unknown parameter |s2cid= ignored (help)
  19. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (2011). "Is Investigating for Carotid Artery Disease Warranted in Non-Cortical Lacunar Infarction?". Stroke. 42 (1): 217–20. doi:10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.600064. PMID 21106953. Unknown parameter |s2cid= ignored (help)
  20. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (March 25, 2013). "Learning styles and approaches to learning among medical undergraduates and postgraduates". BMC Medical Education. 13: 42. doi:10.1186/1472-6920-13-42. PMC 3620557. PMID 23521845.
  21. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (February 1, 2010). "Atypical manifestations of chikungunya infection". Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 104 (2): 89–96. doi:10.1016/j.trstmh.2009.07.031. PMID 19716149.
  22. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (April 1, 2011). "Chemoprophylaxis in malaria: drugs, evidence of efficacy and costs". Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine. 4 (4): 330–6. doi:10.1016/S1995-7645(11)60098-9. PMID 21771482.
  23. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (December 12, 2011). "Malaria Journal". 10: 351. doi:10.1186/1475-2875-10-351. PMC 3306765. PMID 22152065. Unknown parameter |s2cid= ignored (help)
  24. ↑ Ranasinghe, P.; Perera, Y. S.; Lamabadusuriya, D. A.; Kulatunga, S.; Jayawardana, N.; Rajapakse, S.; Katulanda, P. (August 4, 2011). "Environmental Health". Environmental Health : A Global Access Science Source. 10: 70. doi:10.1186/1476-069X-10-70. PMC 3162880. PMID 21816073.
  25. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (December 2011). "Work-related complaints of arm, neck and shoulder among computer office workers in an Asian country: prevalence and validation of a risk-factor questionnaire". BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. 12 (1): 68. doi:10.1186/1471-2474-12-68. PMC 3080839. PMID 21463513. Unknown parameter |s2cid= ignored (help)
  26. ↑ Fernando, S. D.; Rodrigo, C.; Rajapakse, S. (December 20, 2010). "Malaria Journal". 9: 366. doi:10.1186/1475-2875-9-366. PMC 3018393. PMID 21171998.
  27. ↑ Rajapakse, S.; Rodrigo, C.; Rajapakse, A. (2012). "Infection and drug resistance". 5: 103–112. doi:10.2147/IDR.S22613. PMC 3411372. PMID 22870039.
  28. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (January 2011). "Dengue shock". Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock. 4 (1): 120–127. doi:10.4103/0974-2700.76835. PMC 3097561. PMID 21633580.
  29. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (February 1, 2009). "Corticosteroids in the treatment of dengue illness". Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 103 (2): 122–6. doi:10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.07.022. PMID 18789467.
  30. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (June 18, 2015). "PLOS ONE". 10 (6): e0129236. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0129236. PMC 4472754. PMID 26086800.
  31. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (September 1, 2012). "Cardiac involvement in leptospirosis". Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 106 (9): 515–20. doi:10.1016/j.trstmh.2012.06.007. PMID 22818758.
  32. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (March 26, 2014). "Critical care". Critical Care (London, England). 18 (2): 217. doi:10.1186/cc13797. PMC 4057067. PMID 25029486.
  33. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (February 1, 2017). "Clinical manifestations of scrub typhus". Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 111 (2): 43–54. doi:10.1093/trstmh/trx017. PMID 28449088.
  34. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (April 4, 2012). "Scrub typhus: pathophysiology, clinical manifestations and prognosis". Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine. 5 (4): 261–4. doi:10.1016/S1995-7645(12)60036-4. PMID 22449515.
  35. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (January 2011). "Drug treatment of scrub typhus". Tropical Doctor. 41 (1): 1–4. doi:10.1258/td.2010.100311. PMID 21172901. Unknown parameter |s2cid= ignored (help)
  36. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (August 14, 2018). "Fixed Low-Dose Triple Combination Antihypertensive Medication vs Usual Care for Blood Pressure Control in Patients With Mild to Moderate Hypertension in Sri Lanka". JAMA. 320 (6): 566–579. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.10359. PMC 6583010 Check |pmc= value (help). PMID 30120478. Unknown parameter |s2cid= ignored (help)
  37. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (2010). "HIV, poverty and women". International Health. 2 (1): 9–16. doi:10.1016/j.inhe.2009.12.003. PMID 24037044.
  38. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (June 1, 2013). "Antibiotics for human toxoplasmosis: a systematic review of randomized trials". Pathogens and Global Health. 107 (4): 162–9. doi:10.1179/2047773213Y.0000000094. PMC 4001466. PMID 23816507.
  39. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (December 2014). "Leukotriene receptor antagonists for chronic urticaria: a systematic review". Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology. 10 (1): 24. doi:10.1186/1710-1492-10-24. PMC 4016797. PMID 24817895.
  40. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (July 2, 2016). "Chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology in Sri Lanka". International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health. 22 (3): 259–264. doi:10.1080/10773525.2016.1203097. PMC 5102238. PMID 27399161.
  41. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (2015). "Tafenoquine for preventing relapse in people with Plasmodium vivax malaria". Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (4): CD010458. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD010458.pub2. PMC 4468925. PMID 25921416.
  42. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (December 2013). "Caregiver strain and symptoms of depression among principal caregivers of patients with schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder in Sri Lanka". International Journal of Mental Health Systems. 7 (1): 2. doi:10.1186/1752-4458-7-2. PMC 3558409. PMID 23302516.
  43. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (July 2009). "Current Status of HIV/AIDS in South Asia". Journal of Global Infectious Diseases. 1 (2): 93–101. doi:10.4103/0974-777X.56249. PMC 2840955. PMID 20300398.
  44. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (December 2014). "Changes in full blood count parameters in leptospirosis: a prospective study". International Archives of Medicine. 7 (1): 31. doi:10.1186/1755-7682-7-31. PMC 4094533. PMID 25018781.
  45. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (December 2010). "Symptoms of anxiety and depression in adolescent students; a perspective from Sri Lanka". Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health. 4 (1): 10. doi:10.1186/1753-2000-4-10. PMC 2855518. PMID 20334654. Unknown parameter |s2cid= ignored (help)
  46. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (December 2015). "Current immunological and molecular tools for leptospirosis: diagnostics, vaccine design, and biomarkers for predicting severity". Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials. 14 (1): 2. doi:10.1186/s12941-014-0060-2. PMC 4299796. PMID 25591623.
  47. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (December 2013). "Awareness of breast cancer among adolescent girls in Colombo, Sri Lanka: a school based study". BMC Public Health. 13 (1): 1209. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-13-1209. PMC 3906911. PMID 24359310. Unknown parameter |s2cid= ignored (help)
  48. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (December 2012). "A meta‐analysis of magnesium for tetanus". Anaesthesia. 67 (12): 1370–4. doi:10.1111/anae.12020. PMID 23033859. Unknown parameter |s2cid= ignored (help)
  49. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (November 12, 2014). "Myocardial infarction following cannabis induced coronary vasospasm". Case Reports. 2014: bcr2014207020. doi:10.1136/bcr-2014-207020. PMC 4244407. PMID 25391827.
  50. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (July 6, 2010). "The 'antisocial' person: an insight in to biology, classification and current evidence on treatment". Annals of General Psychiatry. 9 (1): 31. doi:10.1186/1744-859X-9-31. PMC 2910031. PMID 20604959.
  51. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (December 1, 2011). "Current Evidence on the Use of Antifilarial Agents in the Management of bancroftian Filariasis". Journal of Tropical Medicine. 2011: 175941. doi:10.1155/2011/175941. PMC 3018634. PMID 21234244.
  52. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (December 2014). "Incidences and clinical outcomes of acute kidney injury in ICU: a prospective observational study in Sri Lanka". BMC Research Notes. 7 (1): 305. doi:10.1186/1756-0500-7-305. PMC 4049500. PMID 24884808.
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  58. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka (2014). Kumaran Sri Lanka (first ed.). Sri Lanka: Kumaran. Search this book on
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  60. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka. "Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka".
  61. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka. "National Hypertension Society".
  62. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka. "Sri Lanka College of Internal Medicine". SLCIM.
  63. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka. "Ceylon College of Physicians". CCP.
  64. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka. "University of Colombo, Sri Lanka". University of Colombo.
  65. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka. "University of Colombo, Sri Lanka". University of Colombo.
  66. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka. "University of Colombo, Sri Lanka". University of Colombo.
  67. ↑ Rajapakse, Senaka. "Ceylon College of Physicians". University of Colombo.
  68. ↑ "National Academy of Science-Sri Lanka". nasal.org.

External links

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  5. https://www.ccp.lk/
  6. https://slcim.lk/
  7. https://cmb.ac.lk/noc/
  8. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HXOWjB8AAAAJ&hl=en
  9. https://med.cmb.ac.lk/clinmed/research/


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