Dr. Subodha Waiddyanatha

Lecturer

Department of Parasitology

Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences

Rajarata University of Sri Lanka

• Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka - 2008)
• Doctor of Philosophy (Rajarata University of Sri Lanka - 2024)

INTERNATIONAL 

Best oral presentation award – 18^th Asia Pacific Association of Medical Toxicology congress (APAMT) 2019, Putrajaya, Malaysia.

Long-term effects snake envenoming in Sri Lanka.

PUBLICATIONS: FULL PAPERS

Waiddyanatha S, Silva A, Wedasingha S, Siribaddana S, Isbister GK. Incidence of serum sickness following Indian polyvalent antivenom therapy in a cohort of snake-envenomed patients in rural Sri Lanka. Clinical Toxicology. 2023 Jul 3;61(7):518-23.

Waiddyanatha S, Silva A, Siribaddana S, Isbister GK. Health issues and related health-seeking behaviours of snakebite patients after hospital discharge: A cohort study from rural Sri Lanka. Toxicon. 2024 Aug 28;247:107840.

Waiddyanatha S, Silva A, Weerakoon K, Siribaddana S, Isbister GK. Does snake envenoming cause chronic kidney disease? A cohort study in rural Sri Lanka. Clinical toxicology. 2022 Nov 28:1-9.

Waiddyanatha S, Silva A, Weerakoon K, Siribaddana S, Isbister GK. Long-term health effects perceived by snakebite patients in rural Sri Lanka: A cohort study. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 2022 Sep 1;16(9):e0010723.

Silva A, Hlusicka J, Siribaddana N, Waiddyanatha S, Pilapitiya S, Weerawansa P, Lokunarangoda N, Thalgaspitiya S, Siribaddana S, Isbister GK. Time delays in treatment of snakebite patients in rural Sri Lanka and the need for rapid diagnostic tests. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 2020 Nov 30;14(11):e0008914.

Waiddyanatha S, Silva A, Siribaddana S, Isbister GK. Long-term effects of snake envenoming. Toxins 2019; 11(4): 193 ( doi:10.3390/toxins11040193)

PUBLICATIONS: PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS

Waiddyanatha S, Silva A, Siribaddana S, Isbister G. Long-term effects of snakebite after four years: a cohort study from rural Sri Lanka. Clinical Toxicology 2020; 58 (4) 317-318).

Silva A, Waiddyanatha S, Weerakoon K, Lokunarangoda N, Siribaddana S, Isbister G. Abdominal pain, nausea, headache and vomiting as early predictors of systemic envenoming in a cohort of snake envenomed patients in Sri Lanka. Clinical Toxicology 2020; 58(4)315-315).

Fernando J, Priyanjana C, Wanigasekara N, Hettigama N, Dissanayake K, Siribaddana S, Waiddyantha S, Weerakoon K, Silva A. Toxoplasmosis in Women With Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: A Single Centre Case Control Study.

Teaching medical undergraduates since 2017.

Long-term effects of snake envenoming