1. Channa Jayasumana is a Sri Lankan medical academic, politician, Cabinet Minister, and member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka for the Anuradhapura District.
16 Facts About Channa Jayasumana
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Channa Jayasumana was born into a middle-class Sinhalese family in the down-south, Sri Lanka.
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Channa Jayasumana studied at the Kalutara Vidyalaya and was a famous athlete in his school days.
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Channa Jayasumana has completed his one-year medical internship at Base Hospital, Nawalapitiya, under surgeon WG Jayawickrama and pediatrician Mohomad Nilam Jiffry.
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Channa Jayasumana obtained his Doctorate of Philosophy for the thesis "Toxicological Aspects of Sri Lankan Agricultural Nephropathy" from the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka with foreign training at California State University, Long Beach, USA.
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Channa Jayasumana is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh, UK.
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Channa Jayasumana was a pioneering academic staff member of the Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka.
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Channa Jayasumana joined the Rajarata University medical faculty as a junior lecturer in 2008 and was promoted to the post of senior lecturer in 2015.
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Channa Jayasumana became a professor in pharmacology in 2016 at the age of 36.
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Channa Jayasumana broke the record for the youngest medical professor in Sri Lanka, which was earlier held by Professor Senaka Bibile.
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Channa Jayasumana was the head of the Department of Pharmacology at the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka from 2015 until he entered parliament.
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Channa Jayasumana has done extensive research on drinking water, occupational exposure to pesticides, and their association with chronic kidney disease, which highly prevalent in rural farming communities.
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Channa Jayasumana was an active member of several student unions at the University of Peradeniya.
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Channa Jayasumana contested the parliamentary election held in August 2020 for the Anuradhapura electorate in North Central Province and secured 133,980, a recorded number of preferential votes.
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Channa Jayasumana has been appointed as the state minister of Production, Supply and Regulation of Pharmaceuticals in August 2020.
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Channa Jayasumana was elected as the Chair of the Caucus of Medical Parliamentarians Sri Lanka during its inaugural meeting held in Parliament of Sri Lanka on 25.04.2024.