P. R. Anthonis

P. R. Anthonis
P. R. Anthonis
Chancellor of the University of Colombo
Personal details
Born January 21, 1911
Died December 17, 2009
Nationality Sri Lanka Sri Lankan
Alma mater St. Peter's College Bambalapitiya,
Ceylon Medical College
Profession surgeon

Polwattearachchige Romiel Anthonis M.D. (21 January 1911 – 17 December 2009) (known as P. R. Anthonis) was a Sri Lankan surgeon.[1][2][3][4][5]

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Early life

Born on January 21, 1911 as the second in a family of 16.

Education

Dr Anthonis was educated at St. Peter's College Bambalapitiya and Ceylon Medical College.

Dr. Anthonis went to England to obtain specialist qualifications in surgery after World War II. He was the only one who was successful out of the eight other Ceylonese, sat the final FRCS Examination in 1947. Then he became the first Ceylonese surgeon to pass through the primary and final examination for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS) without a single examination mishap. After he returned to Ceylon, he was appointed Consultant Visiting Surgeon at the Colombo General Hospital in 1947 and served in that capacity until he retired on 21 January 1971.

Career

During his 70 years as a doctor, he has performed nearly a hundred thousand surgical operations. The records showed that no less than 38 000 of these have been done after his retirement from government service in 1971. Carlo Fonseka had provided a short review of Anthonis's professional career in the Ceylon Medical Journal.

Reference

  1. ^ The Anthonis story: the long march of a most remarkable man
  2. ^ Then a surgeon, still a surgeon
  3. ^ Dr. PR Anthonis
  4. ^ Deshamanya Dr. PR Anthonis
  5. ^ Lanka’s sharpest scalpel

C.Fonseka: Deshamanya Dr. P.R.Anthonis. Ceylon Medical Journal, March 2006; 51(1): 29-31

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