Sivalingam Branavan

• Board certified consultant General Surgeon since 20th February 2010 with special interest in Upper & Lower Gastro intestinal surgery

Highly motivated individual with experience in General, Trauma and Laparoscopic surgery.

• Clinical Teacher and mentor for the undergraduates at Teaching Hospital Batticaloa
• Visiting Lecturer, Faculty of Healthcare Sciences, Eastern University of Sri Lanka
• Visiting Lecturer, Faculty of Siddha Medicine, Trincomalee Campus, Eastern University of Sri Lanka
• Approved trainer of the Post graduate Institute of Medicine (PGIM) Colombo for Pre and Post MD surgery training in general surgery with special interest in Upper and lower gastro intestinal surgery
• Examiner-MD Surgery by Postgraduate Institute of Medicine (PGIM), University of Colombo in Collaboration with Royal college of physicians and surgeons Glasgow
• Examiner for Final MBBS surgery Universities of Colombo, Rajarata and Batticaloa
• Examiner for Examination to Register and Practice (ERPM) by the Sri Lanka Medical Council

To uplift the quality of surgical services in the peripheries of the country by keep myself updated with continuous professional education and deliver the knowledge and skills to the next generation of doctors

• Sri Lanka Medical Council, Specialist Registry, Reg No. 17854
• Royal College of Surgeons of England, Membership Number 1049351
• Fellow and past council member of the College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka (CSSL)
• Fellow of the International College of Surgeons (ICS)
• The Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) - International 3 member
• Member of Sri Lanka Association of Minimal Access and Digital Surgeons (SLAMADS)
• Member, Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA)
• Association of Medical Specialists (AMS) - Member & Branch Union Secretary for Teaching Hospital Batticaloa
• Batticaloa Medical Association (BMA)- Life Member and past president for the year of 2023
• Faculty Board, Faculty of Healthcare Sciences, Eastern University of Sri Lanka, External Board Member

1. Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery; Learn from the experts, 30th January 2025, Teaching Hospital Batticaloa, Sri Lanka

2. Asia Pacific Digestive Week (APDW), 21-24th November 2024, Bali, Indonesia

3. Pre Congress workshop on Woundcare, 03rd of October 2024, Teaching Hospital Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.

4. Annual Scientific Sessions, Batticaloa Medical Association, 3-5th October 2024, Sri Lanka

5. Surgical Congress, College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka, 11-14th September 2024, Kandy, Sri Lanka

6. Masterclass on Anastomotic leaks a nightmare of Colorectal surgeons, 13th  September 2024, Sri Lanka Surgical Congress, Kandy, Sri Lanka

7. Troubleshooting in Oesophageal Surgery, 10th August 2024, Sri Lanka Association of Minimal Access and Digital surgeons, Colombo, Sri   Lanka

8. Masterclass in Breast and Endocrine Surgery, 1-3rd December 2023, College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka

9.  Asia Pacific Digestive Week (APDW), 6-9th  December 2023, Bangkok, Thailand

10. Annual Scientific Sessions, 13-14th October 2023, Batticaloa Medical Association, Sri Lanka

11. Surgical Congress, College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka, 14-16th September 2023, Colombo, Sri Lanka

12. Surgical Congress, College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka, 24-26th November 2022, Colombo, Sri Lanka

13. Asia Pacific Digestive Week (APDW), 15-18th November 2018, Seol, South Korea

14. Trainer-Training Programme, August 2018, Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

15. Hands on Workshop on ‘Essentials of Hepato Pancreato Biliary Surgery’, 29th November 2017, Colombo South Teaching Hospital, Sri Lanka

16. Workshop on Live Thoraco Laparoscopic Oesophageal Surgery, 16th August 2017, College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka

17. Advanced Laparoscopy Surgical Workshop, 14-15th  March 2017, Teaching Hospital Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

18. Examiner Training Programme, May 2016, Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

19. Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA) Foundation sessions , 16 - 17th October 2011, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka

20. Basic Laparoscopic workshop, 23-25th  January 2008, Ethicon Centre, Chennai, India

21. Management of Ureteric Injuries, Skills Workshop,Organized by Kings College Hospital London and The College of   Surgeons of Sri Lanka,  July 2007.

22. Advanced Trauma Resuscitation and Initial Management for Surgeons, organized by the College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka, 24-25th September 2004.

• Suhumaran Yatheeskar Branavan Sivalingam. Amplatzer Vascular Plug IV for occlusion of Pulmonary Artero venous malformation in an asymptomatic patient. Poster presentation, Indian Sociaety of Vascular interventional radiology 2025
• Panel Judge for Free Paper Sessions, October 2024, Annual Academic Sessions, Batticaloa Medical Association, Sri Lanka
• Resource person for ‘Stoma Workshop for Nurses’, July 2024, Batticaloa Medical Association, Sri Lanka
• Resource person for Symposium on ‘Difficulties in managing Breast Cancer at Peripheral Hospitals in Sri Lanka’ , 03rd July 2023, Annual Academic Sessions of the Nothern Chapter of the College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka
• Paheerathan Nadesan, Branavan S Splenic injury following Colonoscopy . Srilanka Journal of Surgery 2020 Volume :38 issue:2
• Guest Lecture on ‘Misuse of Antibiotics in Surgical Practice’ ,21st of March 2019, Annual Academic Sessions of the Nothern Chapter of the College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka
• Guest Lecture on ‘Peri Operative Management of Antiplatelets’ , 14th of June 2018, Batticaloa Medical Association, Sri Lanka
• Guest lecture on ‘Urolithiasis Management Issues & Challenges’, 16thOctober 2011, SLMA Foundation sessions , Sri Lanka

ONGOING ACTIVITIES

• Appendicitis Global Outcomes(AlliGatOr) study, an International prospective, Multicentre, Cohort Study by NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery – Hospital Lead for Teaching Hospital Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
• National VISTA study – National audit on Diverticular Disease by University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka – Collaborator
• PRoFLUID an International Multicentre observational cohort study of fluid and vasopressor therapy in invasively ventilated patients by National Institute of Heath (NIH)- Collaborator

Professor Dharmabandhu Nandadeva Samarasekara

MBBS (Colombo) MS (Colombo) MD (East Anglia, UK) FRCS (Eng) FRCS (Edin) PGCertMedEd(Dundee) Hon FRCS(Glas)

Emeritus Professor of Surgery, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Email : samarasekera58@yahoo.co.uk

Mr.Nadarajah Selva Theivacumar

MBBS (Colombo) MD (Leeds) FRCS (England)

Clinical lead and Consultant Vascular and Endovascular Surgeon

London Northwest University Healthcare NHS Trust

Email: s.theivacumar@nhs.net