Medical expertise

Dr. Anil Abeywickrama’s medical expertise

• From Galle, Sri Lanka
• Education - Mahinda College Galle
• Medical College - University of Ruhuna, SRI LANKA (MBBS)
• Cardiothoracic Surgery Post Graduate Training - The National Hospital of Sri Lanka (Teaching Hospital)
• MRCS (Eng) - Royal College of Surgeons of England - 2009
• Member of the Cardiopulmonary Transplant team in the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK (2013-2014)
• Board Certified as a Specialist in Cardiothoracic Surgery in 2011
  

Currently Dr. Abeywickrama is attached to the Teaching Hospital in Kandy as a Consultant Cardiothoracic surgeon.

He is a surgeon with a combine practice in both adult and pediatric cardiac surgery. He also worked as a Consultant Cardiothoracic surgeon at the Lady Ridgway Hospital for Children, and  the National Hospital of Sri Lanka since 2014 to 2016. 

His special clinical interests are in Cardiopulmonary Transplant, Donor Management, Mechanical Circulatory Support Therapy, Total Arterial Revascularization of myocardium, Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI).  He is the Leader and Chief Consultant of the First ever Heart Transplant performed in Sri Lanka which has been a profound success.

His next attempt is to establish a Mechanical Circulatory support program in Sri Lanka in collaboration with the Freeman Hospital Newcastle UK.