Dr. Supun Wedasinghe

Lecturer

Department of Pharmacology

Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences

Rajarata University of Sri Lanka (2022 onwards)

Second class upper honors in final MBBS with distinctions for Pediatrics and Surgery

Second class upper honors in third MBBS part 2 with distinctions for Pathology, Community Medicine, and Pharmacology

First class honors in third MBBS part 1 with distinction for Parasitology

Second class lower in second MBBS

Young Investigator 2022 award at the 42nd Congress of the European Association of Poison Centers and Clinical Toxicologists (EAPCCT) held in Tallinn, Estonia on 24th-27th May 2022 for the research presentation titled “Comparing bedside coagulation assays for detecting venom-induced consumption coagulopathy following viper bites in Sri Lanka”

Kumaradasa Rajasuriya Award for the Best Paper in Tropical Medicine and the Sir Nicholas Attygalle Award at the 135th International Medical Congress organized by Sri Lanka Medical Association 2022 for the paper titled “Validation of whole blood clotting test (WBCT) to detect venom-induced consumption coagulopathy (VICC) in snake envenoming”

Current research interests

• Pharmacology of snake venom coagulotoxins

• Reactions to antivenom in snakebite patients

Grants

• Rajarata Research Grant 2021 - RJT/R & PC/2021/R/FMAS/03

Publications: Journal articles

Wedasingha S, Isbister GK, Silva A .Bedside Coagulation Tests in Diagnosing Venom- Induced Consumption Coagulopathy in Snakebite Toxins 2020; 12:583

Supun Wedasingha, Anjana Silva, Sisira Siribaddana, Kanishka Seneviratne & Geoffrey Isbister (2022): Comparison of bedside clotting tests for detecting venom-induced consumption coagulopathy following Sri Lankan viper envenoming, Clinical Toxicology, DOI:10.1080/15563650.2022.2128816

Wedasingha, S.; Sarathchandra, C.; Weerawansa, P.; Rathnasekara, T.; Karunarathna, S.;Isbister, G.K.; Silva, A. Kounis syndrome following an anaphylactic reaction to antivenom in a patient with Russell’s viper (Daboia russelii) bite: A case report. Toxicon 2022, 218, 66–69, doi:10.1016/j.toxicon.2022.09.006.

Amarakoon G et al. Myocarditis and severe neuromuscular paralysis following a suspected Common krait (Bungarus caeruleus) envenoming in a child: A case report. Anuradhapura Medical Journal 2022; 16 (1): 26-30, DOI: http://doi.org/ 10.4038/amj.v16i1.7713

Lecturing, tutoring and conducting assessments on Pharmacology for MBBS students – Rajarata University of Sri Lanka since 2019

Completed Staff Development Program for teachers at Rajarata University of Sri Lanka  – 2020

Research projects

“Comparison of the bedside coagulation assays for detecting venom-induced consumption coagulopathy in Russell’s viper and Hump nosed viper bites in Sri Lanka” – A MPhil research study conducted at Teaching Hospital Anuradhapura – completed