- Nimal Senanayake
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Professor Nimal Senanayake Nationality 
Sri LankanOccupation Professor of Medicine, Consultant Neurologist, Medical Researcher, Author, Film and Television Scriptwriter Title Professor Professor Nimal Senanayake is a Sri Lankan neurologist, physician, author, film and television scriptwriter and academic.
Senanayake was educated at the University of Peradeniya [1] where he later became Senior Lecturer in Medicine, Professor of Medicine and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine ,[2] Chairman of Board of Study in Medicine at the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, President of the Sri Lanka Medical Association [3] and President of the Kandy Society of Medicine.[4] Senanayake is best known for his work on the neurotoxicity of pesticides and particularly organophosphorous compounds but has published extensively and is an authority on epilepsy and other neurological disorders. He currently leads with an Australian colleague [5] a Wellcome Trust funded initiative to reduce deaths from pesticides.[6] Senanayake is an author of non medical books and a scriptwriter as well as a scientific researcher, and has scripted several television dramas and documentaries shown on national television. The work has a strong bias towards medical issues such as psychoanalaysis and living with epilepsy but draws on adaptations of work by Maupassant and Wilkie Collins.,[7] .[8] He is also a vocalist, and has performed at several venues. He has received awards for contributions to research (SLMA Gold Medal Oration,[9] Kandy Society of Medicine Gold Medal Oration,[10] Senaka Bibile Gold Medal Oration,[11] Kumaradasa Rajasuriya Gold Medal [12]) and scriptwriting.[13] He was awarded a DSc by the university in recognition of his achievements in the field of Toxicology and Neurology.[14]He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
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- ^ "ANU projects to cut pesticide deaths....". info.anu.edu.au. http://info.anu.edu.au/mac/newsletters_and_journals/anu_reporter/_september_2003.asp. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
- ^ "Combating pesticide poisoning in South Asia ;Sri Lankan and Australian researchers are teaming up to tackle pesticide poisoning.". www.wellcome.ac.uk. http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/2004/Features/WTD006147.htm. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
- ^ "Short Bursts of Psychoanalysis". www.island.lk. http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=5606. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
- ^ "‘Sathkulu Pawwa’ Monday, 10 January 2011, tele drama launched". www.dailymirror.lk. http://print.dailymirror.lk/life/132-life/32343.html. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
- ^ "SLMA Oration". www.slma.lk. http://www.slma.lk/slmao.html. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
- ^ "4) Kandy Society of Medicine Orations,". www.kandysocmed.tripod.com. http://kandysocmed.tripod.com/archives.htm. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
- ^ "3) Senake Bibile Memorial Oration". www.slma.lk. http://kandysocmed.tripod.com/archives.htm. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
- ^ cite web|url=http://www.dailynews.lk/2003/05/30/fea06.html |title=Late Prof. K. Rajasuriya's bold experiment |date= Friday, 30 May 2003|publisher=Dailynews |accessdate=3rd September 2011
- ^ "‘Sumathi Awards 2010'". www.sumathiawards.lk. http://www.sumathiawards.lk/achive/1998.html. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
- ^ "Peradeniya University Medical Faculty". www.dailynews.lk. http://www.dailynews.lk/2011/02/28/fea05.asp. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
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- Sri Lankan physicians
- Alumni of the University of Peradeniya
- Faculty of the University of Peradeniya
- Living people
- Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians
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