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S. R. Kottegoda

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Vidya Jyothi
S.R. Kottegoda
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo
In office
1970–?
Personal details
Born3 November 1919
Tebuwana, Kalutara District
Died28 March 1995
Rajagiriya
SpouseDamayanti Rambukpota
Alma materHarvard Medical School
Oxford University
University of Ceylon
Royal College Colombo
ProfessionAcademic, Physician

S.R. Kottegoda was a Sri Lankan academic and physician. He was the Head of the Department of Pharmacology of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, thereafter becoming Dean of the Faculty, and later National Coordinator, Health Systems Research, Ministry of Health. He joined the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Faculty of Medicine of the National University of Singapore.

Kottegoda was a leading authority in the SLAAS on the subject of Ethics in Science, having established the oldest Ethics Review Committee in Sri Lanka.[1]

Kottegoda is also the author of the definitive pictorial guide book ‘Flowers of Sri Lanka’.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Fernando A. (2014) Sri Lanka. In: ten Have H., Gordijn B. (eds) Handbook of Global Bioethics. Springer, Dordrecht [1]
  2. ^ Kalkman, C. "Review", Blumea, Vol 41, No 2, 1996 [2]