Lucian Jayasuriya

Dr. Lucian Jayasuriya is a Sri Lankan civil servant and medical manager.

Lucian Jayasuriya
Born
Sri Lanka
NationalitySri Lankan
EducationUniversity of Colombo
Occupation(s)Medical Manager, Civil Servant,
Employer(s)Ministry of Health Sri Lanka Ministry of Teaching Hospitals, Post Graduate Institute of Medicine, Glaxo Smith Kline
Known forHealth care reform
TitleDr

Ministry of Health

Jayasurya has held many positions of responsibility in the Sri Lankan healthcare system.

Jayasuriya trained at Ceylon Medical College (later Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo) and joined the Health Ministry as an Intern Medical officer in 1962. His first posting after the internship was as District Medical Officer (DMO), Ittapana from April 1963 to April 1965.[1] Jayasuriya held the posts of Director General Hospital Colombo (later renamed the National Hospital of Sri Lanka) 1982–1984, Director General Ministry of Teaching Hospitals 1984–1989 and Additional Secretary Ministry of Health 1995–1997.[2]

Pharmaceutical industry

He was Medical Advisor and later Medical Director of GlaxoSmithKline Sri Lanka from 1997 to 2013. He is part-time consultant to GlaxoSmithKline from 2014 to 2019 [3]

Professional organisations

Jayasuriya has provided leadership to several medical organisations..

He served as Founder and President of the Sri Lanka College of Venereologists from 1996 to 1997, President of the College of Medical Administrators in 1997[4] and as President of the Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA) in 1995.[5] He is credited with initiating career guidance seminars for doctors in Sri Lanka and initiating the health management committee of the SLMA. He also served on the Drugs Committee and Communicable Diseases Committee of the SLMA in addition to editing the SLMA Guidelines on Vaccines 2001, 2004, 2008, 2011.[5]

Jayasuriya served as chairman of the Board of Management Postgraduate Institute of Medicine from 2001 to 2004 and again from 2011 to 2012,[6][7] as a council member of the Sri Lanka Medical Council,[8] the National Stroke Association [9] and The safe bottle Lamp Foundation.[10]

Jayasuriya has been a critic of both government ministries[11][12] as well as the medical trade union Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA).[13] He is referred to as "a prominent and powerful figure in medical circles" in an editorial in the Daily Mirror.[14] He wrote the obituaries and appreciation of Surendra Ramachandran.[15]

Awards and recognition

Jayasuriya has been honoured by many of the medical educational institutions teaching medical management and by professional associations. These include:

He delivered the EM Wijerama endowment lecture awarded by the Sri Lanka Medical Association in 2003.[17][18] He delivered the MPM Cooray memorial oration "Reflections of a Catholic Doctor" on 5 November 2011.,[19][20]

References
  1. "Ashamed of private practice Doctor returns consultation fee – Dr. Lucian Jayasuriya recalls". The Daily News. 19 March 2005. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
  2. "Dr Lucien Jayasuriya". Vol. 5, no. 9. Slmanews. September 2012. p. 12. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
  3. "GSK donates Medicines for Sri Lankas displaced". The Sunday Times. Slmanews. 24 May 2009. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
  4. "The Sri Lanka Journal of Medical Administration 2011 volume 13 Past Presidents page26" (PDF). cmasl.lk. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
  5. "Dr Lucien Jayasuriya SLMA News". Vol. 5, no. 9. Slmanews. September 2012. p. 12. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
  6. "Board of Management". www.cmb.ac.lk. January 2012. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
  7. "Health Ministry Heal Thyself". The Daily Mirror. 26 November 2003. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
  8. "Curbs on Herbs Faraza Farook". The Sunday Times. 7 November 1999. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
  9. "Rienzie elected to head National Stroke Association". The Daily Mirror. 26 May 2004. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
  10. "The safe bottle lamp foundation official website". safelamp.org. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
  11. "Health Ministry Heal Thyself". The Daily Mirror. 26 November 2003. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
  12. "Taking in too many The Sunday Times". Sunday Times. 8 August 1999. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
  13. "Health reforms going ahead sans approval". Sunday Times. 2 April 2007. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
  14. "Saving patients from medical traders The Daily Mirror". The Daily Mirror. 28 April 2004. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
  15. "A brilliant man whose humility shone bright Dr Surendra Ramachandran". Sunday Times. www.rootsweb.ancestry.com. 9 October 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
  16. "History of Sri Lanka College of Venereologists". Sri Lanka college of Venereologists. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
  17. "Govt. health sector assured a place in Guinness Book The Daily Mirror". The Daily Mirror. 18 November 2003. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
  18. "Towards a better managed Health service The Sunday Observer". The Sunday Observer. 30 November 2003. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
  19. "Reflections of a Catholic Doctor Messenger" (PDF). Messenger. 30 October 2011. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
  20. "Reflections of a Catholic Doctor Messenger" (PDF). Messenger. 22 January 2012. p. 5. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
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