Faculty of Medicine, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka

Many Congratulations dear sir!

Heartiest congratulations to our founder Professor and chair Professor Suneth Buddhika Agampodi Sir, on his new promotion to Senior Professor of Community Medicine.
Senior Professor Suneth Agampodi joined the Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences Rajarata University of Sri Lanka in 2009 as a probationary lecturer and confirmed and became a senior lecturer in 2012. He was promoted as a merit professor in 2014 and to the position of Chair Professor in 2018. He obtained his MBBS from the University of Peradeniya in 2001 followed by MSc (PGIM, Colombo), MD (PGIM, Colombo) and MPH(Massey University, New Zealand).
He was listed among the world’s top 2% scientists in 2021 and His research interests include maternal and child health, infectious diseases, molecular epidemiology, health system research, population health, and implementation research. he is a visiting research scientist at the Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University, an executive committee member of the international leptospirosis society and he is the current Dean of Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka.
We would like to wish him all the very best to continue his esteemed work as a world-renowned scientist and as the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka.

Heartiest congratulations to our founder Professor and chair Professor Suneth Buddhika Agampodi Sir, on his new promotion to Senior Professor of Community Medicine.
Senior Professor Suneth Agampodi joined the Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences Rajarata University of Sri Lanka in 2009 as a probationary lecturer and confirmed and became a senior lecturer in 2012. He was promoted as a merit professor in 2014 and to the position of Chair Professor in 2018. He obtained his MBBS from the University of Peradeniya in 2001 followed by MSc (PGIM, Colombo), MD (PGIM, Colombo) and MPH(Massey University, New Zealand).
He was listed among the world’s top 2% scientists in 2021 and His research interests includes maternal and child health, infectious diseases, molecular epidemiology, health system research, population health and implementation research. he is a visiting research scientist at Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University, an executive committee member of international leptospirosis society and he is the current Dean of Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka.
We would like to wish him all the very best to continue his esteemed work as a world-renowned scientist and as the Dean of Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka.

We congratulate Professor Suneth Buddhika Agampodi, Chair professor, Department of Community Medicine for becoming the newly appointed Dean of Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka.

Chair Professor of the Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, has been listed among the World’s Top 2% Scientists.

Professor Suneth Agampodi has 107 scientific papers published in journals listed in Web of Science Master’s journal list with a Google Scholar H index of 24.

Stanford team have created a publicly available database of over 100,000 top scientists. This list provides standardized information on citations, h-index, co-authorship adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions and a composite indicator. Separate data are shown for career-long and single year impact. Scientists are classified into 22 scientific fields and 176 sub-fields. Field- and subfield-specific percentiles are also provided. Career-long data are updated to the end-of-2020. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score or a percentile rank of 2% or above.”

https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/3

Updated databases of top 2% scientists and code are freely available in Mendeley.

The report prepared by a team of experts at Stanford University includes only 24 Sri Lankan scientists including researchers from the Universities of Kelaniya, Colombo, Sri Jayawardanapura, Peradeniya, Wayamba, Jaffna and IWMI. Most of the researchers are from the field of Medicine and the University of Kelaniya tops the list with five scientists.

Rajarata University of Sri Lanka has two researchers included in the list with the former professor in the department of pharmacology, Dr Channa Jayasumana (the current State Minister of Production, Supply and Regulation of Pharmaceuticals)
https://rajaratapublichealth.com/2021/10/28/prof-suneth-agampodi-is-listed-among-the-worlds-top-2-scientists/?fbclid=IwAR2U57zNFJzWgVLilYczCFBmZPrIgzatvTSjHjNg6eWPPtnIJaiiv-T3giw

Hail mother FMAS...

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Rajarata University Researchers make History with Leptospira Reference Genome - Department of Community Medicine The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Genome database (part of the United States National Library of Medicine [NLM], a branch of the National Institutes of Health [NIH])has listed the Leptospira interrogates strain FMAS_AW1, the first complete, circularized genome of […]

RUSL Researchers mapped the first complete genome of Leptospira from Sri Lanka - Department of Community Medicine For the first time in scientific literature, researchers from the Leptospirosis Research laboratory of DoCM were able to map the complete genome of three leptospira isolates from Sri Lanka, for the first time in the history. The fully circularized genome …