PROFESSOR PATHIRAGE KAMAL PERERA
Founder Dean, Faculty of Indigenous Medicine University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
Professor Pathirgae Kamal Perera is completed BAMS (Hons) (Colombo), Master’s Degree/ Ph.D. in Pharmacology (PR China). He is a Professor in Ayurveda Medicine and Senior Consultant Physician at Faculty of Indigenous Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. He specialized in Pharmacology, Therapeutics, and Clinical Immunology. He certified and trained in Pharmacovigilance and Drug safety in the WHO Collaborating Centre of Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC). Further, he obtained post-doctoral training in the clinical drug development process and achieved the Diploma in Research & Development of Products to Meet Public Health Needs, Nagasaki University Japan. He is a leading clinical researcher in the fields of herbal clinical pharmacology, Ayurveda medicine, clinical trials and traditional medicine in Sri Lanka. Currently Professor Perera is lecturing and supervising UG and PG programs of MSc/MD/MPhil/PhDs. Professor Perera has over 100 publications in Indexed and peer-reviewed journals, and numerous abstracts. Currently he is an associate editor in Frontiers in Medicine, and Associate Editor in Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, John Wiley publishers. At the university, national and international levels he, together with his students and colleagues, has been the recipient of awards for research excellence and has innovations with commercialized clinical herbal products. He was the founder of the Unit for Research and Development of Natural products to conduct experimental and clinical trials in the Faculty of Indigenous Medicine, University of Colombo. Professor Perera was among the pioneers in the development of first MD(Ayu) programme in the Faculty of Indigenous Medicine, University of Colombo. Professor Perera was the founder coordinator for the very first MD(Ayu) programme in the University of Colombo. Professor Perera served as a senior consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO), project on “A review of traditional medicine research in Sri Lanka: 2015–2019” and Project on “intellectual property rights (IPRS) and trade in traditional medicines (TM) in Sri Lanka, 2015”.Currently he is engaging in project on development and popularizing Sri Lankan traditional medicine health tourism in Europe and Asian region.