Dr. Asantha Jayawardana

Senior Lecturer in Anatomy

Department of Anatomy

Faculty of Medicine and Allied Science

Rajarata University of Sri Lanka

Chair- Ethical Review Committee, FMAS, RUSL

Visiting Lecturer - Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka 

• Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery

• M.Sc. (Clinical Genetics)

• Diploma in Public Health ( People’s uni)

• MSc in Global Bioethics ( Reading)

• Best presentation -Runners up : Jayawardana SMA, Sumathipala D,Nisansala PKDS, Jayasekara RW, Dissanayake VHW. Phenotypic spectrum of Sri Lankan females with Isochromosome X. International Conference on Birth Defects 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka. 9 to 11 February 2014. (Abstracted in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Birth Defects 2014; p33)

• Best presentation- Herath D, Koralegedara I, Gunarathne N, Hewabostanthirige D, Jinasena S, Paththinige S, Jayawardana A.  Public health midwives attitudes and practices on birth defects reduction: A descriptive study in Anuradhapura district. Annual Academic Sessions of the Anuradhapura Clinical Society, 2022.

Jayawardana, SMA. (2020). Knowledge on Genetic and Genomic Diagnostics among Sri Lankan Medical Practitioners. 10.21203/rs.2.20375/v2.

D Hettiaracchchi, C Bonnard, SMA Jayawardana, AYJ Ng, S  Tohari,...Cenani-Lenz syndactyly syndrome-a case report of a family with isolated syndactyly. BMC Medical Genetics 19 (1), 125 Phenotypic characteristics of a cohort of patients with –α3.7 and –α4.2 deletion: MSc dissertation
http://www.hgucolombo.org/wp-content/uploads/Alpha-thal-dissertation.pdf)

Abstracts

Herath D, Koralegedara I, Gunarathne N, Hewabostanthirige D, Jinasena S, Paththinige S, Jayawardana A.  Public health midwives attitudes and practices on birth defects reduction: A descriptive study in Anuradhapura district. Annual Academic Sessions of the Anuradhapura
Clinical Society, 2022.

Hewabostanthirige D, Dinasena J, Dissanayaka C, Paththinige S,Jayawardana A, Koralegedara I, Thilakarathna G, Rajapaksha G.COVID-19 treatment by micro-RNA interference using the aerosol delivery system. Annual Academic Sessions of the Anuradhapura Clinical Society, 2022.

Jayawardana A, Hewabosthanthige D, Weerawansa P, Rathnapala U.Whole Genome Sequencing Based Approach to Identify Genetic markers of CKDu- Concept paper.Genomics of Rare Diseases, 2021, Wellcome Genome Campus

Hemachandra GGUR,Herath PHMGB,Gunarathne EMNDT ,Hapuarachchi HAVMK ,Herath HMVP ,Gunathilake MGNN ,Jayawardana SMA. Parents Knowledge on Excess Screen Time 134th Anniversary International Medical Congress, SLMC 2021

I Ilangarathne, CS Dissanayake, P Rodrigo, CL De Silva, KIS Koralegedara, SMA ayawardana, CS Paththinige A study on student perception on a formative'mini-viva'examination in Anatomy. Sri Lanka
Anatomy Journal 3 (2)

H Vijithananda, D Senarath, HTC Perera, KND Dharmarathne, KND Dharmarathne, IANP beyrathne, SB Adikari, CS Paththinige, SMA Jayawardana. Learning style preferences among second year medical students in Rajarata University of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Anatomy Journal 3 (2)

Jayawardana SMA,  Wetthasinghe TK, Sumathipala D, Goonasekera HWW, Dissanayake HW.Haematological  characteristics  of a cohort of Sri Lankan patients with –α3.7 and –α4.2 deletions 2nd Pan Asian conference on Haemoglobinopathies 26-27  September 2015, Hanoi,
Vietnam (Abstracted in the Proceedings of the Conference; page 68)

Paththinige CS, Atapattu AN, Jayawardana MA   Can the cadaver dissection in anatomy curriculum be substituted by alternative methods? The perception of the second year medical students  14^th APMEC conference, Singapore 11-15 January 2017(Abstracted in the
Proceedings of the Conference; page 205)

Paththinige CS, Jayawardana MA Students' perceptions regarding an online discussion forum in anatomy on facebook 14th APMEC conference,Singapore 11-15 January 2017(Abstracted in the Proceedings of the Conference; page 408)

Jayawardana SMA,  Wetthasinghe TK, Sumathipala D, Goonasekera HWW, VHW. hematological  characteristics  of a cohort of Sri Lankan patients with –α3.7 and –α4.2 deletions and Pan Asian conference on Haemoglobinopathies 26-27  September 2015, Hanoi, Vietnam Abstracted in the Proceedings of the Conference; page 68)

Jayawardana SMA, Sumathipala D, Nisansala PKDS, Jayasekara RW, Dissanayake VHW. Phenotypic spectrum of Sri Lankan females with Isochromosome X. International Conference on Birth Defects 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka. 9 to 11 February 2014. (Abstracted in the roceedings of the International Conference on Birth Defects 2014; p33)

Jayawardana SMA, Sumathipala D, Hidellage NT, Abeysekara AAGS, Ratnayake PD, Jayasekera RW, Dissanayake VHW. Initial report of MECP2 gene mutations in three girls with Rett syndrome in Sri Lanka 8^th Annual Academic Sessions of association of Sri
Lanakan  Neurologists/
8th Annual Congress of Asian Society  Againist Dementia 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka. 14to 16 November 2014. (Abstracted in the Proceedings of the conference Page 77)

Banstola SR, Jayawardana SMA, Udalamaththa AVLK, Karunaratne HWSS,Jayasekara W,Dissanayake VHW. A case report of a Sri Lankan child with mosaic cell lines for ring chromosome 6 and monosomy 6.International Conference on Birth Defects 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka.9 to 11 February 2014. (Abstracted in the Proceedings of the
International Conference on Birth Defects 2014; p27)

Somadasa PKDCT, Udalamaththa AVLK, Liyanage JC, Jayawardana SMA, Arambepola WMM, Dissanayake VHW. A ring chromosome 18 in a Sri Lankan female child with congenital malformations and global developmental delay. International Conference on Birth Defects 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka. 9 to 11 February 2014. (Abstracted in the Proceedings of the
International Conference on Birth Defects 2014; p28)

Somadasa PKDCT, Udalamaththa AVLK, Kariyawasam UGIU, Jayawardana SMA,Sirisena UND, Dissanayake VHW. Molecular- cytogenetic analysis of a ring chromosome 18 in a sri lankan female child with congenital malformation, heart defects and global developmental delay. University of Colombo Research Symposium 2014, November 20-21, 2014, Colombo. Sri
Lanka. (Abstracted in the Proceedings of the Conference)

Jayawardana SMA,  Wetthasinghe TK, Sumathipala D, Goonasekera HWW, Dissanayake VHW. Phenotypic characteristics  of a cohort of patients with –α3.7 and –α4.2 deletions. University Research Symposium 2014 ,November 20-21, 2014, Colombo. Sri Lanka. (Abstracted in the Proceedings of the Conference)

Walpola VR, Paththinige CS, Jayawardana SMA. Retroaortic left renal Vein: A Case Report Annual research symposium- Rajarata University of Sri Lanka 2010 ( Abstracted in  Proceedings of the conference. Page 86-87)

Jayawardana SMA, Walpola VR,Paththinige CS, Warnasuriya N, Dinesh S, Arunapriya D. Precaval right renal artery: A Case Report. Annual research symposium- Rajarata University of Sri Lanka  2011 (Abstracted in  Proceedings of the conference. Page 153-5)