Medical Officer-MBBS
Resume:
Personal Information
Full name Peksha Hasini Widanapathirana
Date of Birth 24/11/1990
Gender Female
Residential Address No 1/80, Dharmarathne Mawatha, Uyanwatta, Matara
Country Sri Lanka
Email ************@*****.***
Telephone number +947********
EPIC ID C-WP119975
Professional Profile
A compassionate Medical Doctor with more than 5 & 1/2 years of work experience and Sri Lankan Medical Council registered medical officer with a successful background in the diagnosis, treatment and management of patient illness and diseases.
Acclaimed for making informed decisions to manage a variety of patient aliments. Experience in the recommendation and prescription of appropriate medications. Ensure adherence to healthcare guidelines and standard practice. Passionate about Critical Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine & Internal Medicine.
Primary Qualification
Qualification University Country Date obtained
Bachelor of Medicine and
Bachelor of Surgery. (MBBS)
Faculty of Medicine,
University of Ruhuna
Sri Lanka 22/01/2016
Registration History
Authority of Registration Registration Number Date of Registration Sri Lankan Medical Council
(SLMC)
35754 17/11/2017
Professional Work Experience
• Summary
Date Position title Full time/Part time Facility
O1/12/2021 to
present
Medical Officer Critical
Care-Medical/Covid ICU
Full time Colombo North
Teaching Hospital.
28/02/2019 to
30/11/2021
( 2 years & 9 months)
Medical Officer Critical
Care-Medical ICU
Full time District General
hospital, Ampara
21/11/2017 to
25/02/2019
(1 year & 3 months)
Resident House officer -
General Surgery
Full time District General
Hospital, Matara
02/2018 to
04/2019
(1 year & 2months)
Field Medical officer Part time Department of
Parasitology, Faculty of
Medicine-Colombo
09/02/2016 to
16/11/2016
(9 months)
Temporary
Demonstrator
Full time Faculty Of Medicine,
University of Ruhuna
21/11/2016 to
20/11/2017
(1 year)
Intern Medical Officer Full time District General
Hospital, Matara
• Details
Dates 01/12/2021 to Present
Position title Medical Officer Critical Care-Medical ICU & Covid ICU Full time or
Part time
Full Time
Responsibilities • Comprehensive history taking, systemic physical examination, documentation, daily assessment of patients, observation, ordering of relevant investigation interpretation.
• Identification acute and chronic clinical condition and assist in coming upon a diagnosis.
• Distinguish special problems and refer to relevant subspecialities for further management.
• Setting up ventilators for invasive and non-invasive ventilation adjust according to the patient’s clinical condition.
• Carrying out Invasive and Non-invasive clinical procedures; insertion of CV line, HD line, IV cannula .ET tube insertion etc.
• Maintain and update patient data book and critical incident book.
• Conducting daily morning briefing with critical care team identification of problems of staffing, equipment availability & develop a daily plan.
• Working as a member of critical care outreach team (COCT) ensure health of patients who have been recently discharged from ICU.
• Participate in Mortality Review Meetings & presentation of relevant cases.
• Accountable with sound decision making and interpersonal and communication skills.
• Holding relevant family meetings and breaking bad news.
• Supervising & teaching Junior doctors.
Facility Colombo North Teaching Hospital.
Address Ragama, Sri Lanka
Contact Email ****@****.******.***.**
Contact Phone +941******** / +941******** / +941******** City/ Sate Ragama, Western Province
Country Sri Lanka
Dates 28/02/2019 to 30/11/2021 ( 2 years & 9 months) Position title Medical Officer Critical Care-Medical ICU Full time or
Part time
Full Time
Responsibilities • Comprehensive history taking, systemic physical examination, documentation, daily assessment of patients, observation, ordering of relevant investigation interpretation.
• Identification acute and chronic clinical condition and assist in coming upon a diagnosis.
• Distinguish special problems and refer to relevant subspecialities for further management.
• Setting up ventilators for invasive and non-invasive ventilation adjust according to the patient’s clinical condition.
• Maintain and update patient data book and critical incident book.
• Participate in Monthly Mortality & Morbidity Meetings, Maternal Mortality Review Meeting, Dengue Death Review Meeting and PowerPoint presentation of relevant cases.
• Accountable with sound decision making and interpersonal and communication skills.
• Holding relevant family meetings and breaking bad news.
• Supervising & teaching junior doctors.
• Carrying out Invasive and Non-invasive clinical procedures; insertion of CV line, HD line, IV cannula .ET tube insertion etc.
Facility District General Hospital, Ampara
Address Ampara, Sri Lanka
Contact Email ********@*****.***
Contact Phone +946******** / +946********
City/ Sate Ampara, Eastern Province
Country Sri Lanka
Dates 21/11/2017 to 25/02/2019 (1 year & 3 months) Position title Resident House officer -General Surgery Full time or Part
time
Full Time
Responsibilities • Proper history taking, clinical examination, documentation, order relevant investigations interpretation and assisting in probable diagnosis of adult, paediatric patients with acute trauma, surgical emergencies and general surgical conditions
• Daily ward rounds, identification of acute and chronic surgical problems, first contact care medical officer in rotational basis for acute management of trauma patients.
• Performing minor surgeries e.g.: Wound debridement, incision and drainage of abscess, carpel tunnel decompression, lump excision, Primary and secondary suturing
• Assisting in major surgeries (Open and Laparoscopic). Open- Total thyroidectomy, Exploratory Laparotomy, Bowel resection, Inguinal hernial repair, open appendicectomy Laparoscopic- cholecystectomy, TURP, Appendicectomy
• Assisting in performing Upper GI and Lower GI endoscopies
• Attending in General surgical clinic, chronic wound management clinic and followed up more than 150 patients per day
• Accompanying in transport of critically ill trauma patients, surgical patients for advanced care facility
Facility District General Hospital, Matara
Address Matara, Sri Lanka
Contact Email ********@*****.***
Contact Phone +944********
City/ Sate Matara, Southern province
Country Sri Lanka
Dates 09/02/2016 to 16/11/2016 (9 months)
Position title Temporary Demonstrator
Full time or Part
time
Full Time
Responsibilities • Assist in conducting workshops and tutorials to undergraduate medical students.
• Assessing and following up patients in Antenatal, Gynaecology clinics
• Assist in Major and Minor surgical procedures.
• Assisting in academic research in the department by data collection, data interpretation etc.
Facility Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ruhuna
Address Karapitiya, Galle, Sri Lanka
Contact Email ****@***.***.**.**
Contact Phone +949********
City/ Sate Galle, Southern Province
Country Sri Lanka
Dates 02/2018 to 04/2019 ( 1 year & 2 months)
Position title Field Medical officer
Full time or Part
time
Part Time (16hrs per week)
Programme “Epidemiology and transmission of Leishmania donovani infections in Sri Lanka and Bhutan”
Responsibilities • Active case detection through community screening and working as a team leader
• Refer detected cases to dermatology clinic follow-up
• Conducting Health education programmes to improve public awareness about the disease
Facility National Institute of Health (NIH), Tropical Medicine Research centre (TMRC)- USA
collaborated with Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine-Colombo. Contact Email ***************@*****.***
Contact Phone +941******** / +941********
City/ State Colombo, Western Province
Country Sri Lanka
Internship and observer ship
Dates 21/11/2016 to 20/05/2017 (6 months)
Rotation General Medicine
Responsibilities • Comprehensive history taking, physical examination and documentation in the BHT with sufficient details
• Requesting relevant investigations, prescribing treatment and assist in diagnosis
• Management of health-related problems and emergencies
• Perform ward procedures and administration of IV fluids, blood products
Facility District General Hospital, Matara
Address Matara, Sri Lanka
Contact Email ********@*****.***
Contact Phone +944******** / +944********
City/ Sate Matara, Southern province
Country Sri Lanka
Dates 21/05/2017 to 20/11/2017
Rotation General surgery
Responsibilities • Comprehensive history taking, physical examination and documentation in the BHT with sufficient details
• Management of health-related problems and emergencies
• Perform ward procedures and administration of IV fluids, blood products
• Requesting relevant investigations, prescribing treatment and assist in diagnosis.
• Assisting at major surgeries performing minor surgeries under supervision
Facility District General Hospital, Matara
Address Matara, Sri Lanka
Contact Email ********@*****.***
Contact Phone +944******** / +944********
City/ Sate Matara, Southern province
Country Sri Lanka
Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Programmes Date Program / Exams Facility City/ State Status
20/05/2022 Focused Intensive Care
Sonography (FICS)
ECHO
The Ceylon College of
Critical Care Specialists in
collaboration with Sri
Lankan College of
cardiologists.
Colombo,
Sri Lanka
Successfully
completed
24/04/2022 Advanced Trauma Life
Support (ATLS)
Provider course
American College of
Surgeons
Colombo,
Sri Lanka
Successfully
completed
29/03/2022 Advanced Life support
(ALS)Provider Course
European Resuscitation
Council
Colombo,
Sri Lanka
Successfully
completed
and awarded
as ‘Instructor
Potential’
07/02/2022 Advanced Life Support
(ALS-Local)
College of
Anaesthesiologists and
Intensivists of Sri Lanka
Galle, Sri
Lanka
Successfully
completed
20/01/2022 Competency Related
Essential Skills Training
in Continuous Renal
Replacement Therapy
(CREST CRRT)
The Ceylon College of
Critical Care Specialists
Colombo,
Sri Lanka
Successfully
completed
15/01/2022 Point- of-care
Ultrasonography Part 1
(Basics) -38th Annual
Academic Congress
College of
Anaesthesiologists and
Intensivists of Sri Lanka
Colombo,
Sri Lanka
Successfully
completed
08/12/2021 Cardiopulmonary
Resuscitation
Ministry of Health -Sri
Lanka & College of
Anaesthesiologists and
Intensivists of Sri Lanka
Ragama, Sri
Lanka
Successfully
completed
03/10/2021 Advanced Airway
Workshop
College of
Anaesthesiologists and
Intensivists of Sri Lanka
Colombo,
Sri Lanka
Successfully
completed
07/11/2019 WINFOCUS course;
Ultrasound Life
Support – Basic Level 1
provider (USLS-BL1 P)
World Interactive
Network of Critical
Ultrasound (WINFOCUS)
and Sri Lankan Society of
Critical Care and
Emergency Medicine
Colombo,
Sri Lanka
Successfully
completed
30/11/2019 Saving the Critically ill
mother (Emergency
Obstetrics
management)
Obstetric Committee of
College of
Anaesthesiologists and
Intensivists Sri Lanka
Ampara, Sri
Lanka
Successfully
completed
05/11/2019 Emergency Life care
(ELC)
Sri Lankan Society of
Critical Care and
Emergency Medicine
Colombo,
Sri Lanka
Successfully
completed
29/10/2019 Adult and Paediatric
Cardiopulmonary
Resuscitation
Galoya Nimna Clinical
Society
Ampara, Sri
Lanka
Successfully
completed
10/08/2019 Basic Assessment and
Support in Intensive
Care (BASIC) – Provider
course
Sri Lankan Society of
Critical Care and
Emergency Medicine
Colombo,
Sri Lanka
Successfully
completed
06/07/2019 Fundamental
Applications in Critical
Care Therapy (FACCT)
College of
Anaesthesiologists and
Intensivists Sri Lanka
Colombo,
Sri Lanka
Successfully
completed
17/10/2016 Emergency obstetrics
for Pre interns
Sri Lanka College of
Obstetricians and
Gynaecologists & Ministry
of Health – Sri Lanka
Galle, Sri
Lanka
Successfully
completed
13/10/2016 Surgical Emergencies
and Trauma Life
Support Training for
Pre interns
The College of Surgeons
of Sri Lanka & Ministry of
Health -Sri Lanka
Galle, Sri
Lanka
Successfully
completed
11/10/2016 Cardiopulmonary
Resuscitation
Ministry of Health -Sri
Lanka & College of
Anaesthesiologists and
Intensivists of Sri Lanka
Galle, Sri
Lanka
Successfully
completed
26/09/2016 Pre intern Emergency
Life Support
Sri Lanka College of
Paediatricians
Galle, Sri
Lanka
Successfully
completed
25/02/2016 Good Clinical Practices
and Clinical Trial
Management Training
USAID and Neglected
Tropical Disease Support
Centre
Galle, Sri
Lanka
Successfully
completed
Clinical / Procedural Skills
Clinical / procedural skill Competency
1 Venepuncture Competent
2 Venous cannulation, USS guided difficult venous cannulation, Intraosseous access
Competent
3 Taking Blood cultures Competent
4 Arterial Blood Gas sampling and interpretation Competent 5 Insertion of Central Venous lines, Haemodialysis catheters, Arterial lines, Peritoneal Dialysis catheters
Competent
6 CVP monitoring and interpretation Competent
7 Lumbar Puncture and CSF pressure monitoring Competent 8 Urinary catheter insertion Competent
9 Safe administration of Blood and related products Competent 10 Interpretation of ECG Competent
11 Application of External Pacemakers Competent
12 Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Safe Defibrillation (Adult, Paediatric & Obstetrics)
Competent
13 Insertion of Airway adjuncts (LMA, OPA, NPA) and Naso-gastric tube insertion
Competent
14 Endotracheal Intubation Competent
15 Setting up respiratory support for critically ill patients (Invasive & Non Invasive-CPAP,BiPAP,HFNO)
Competent
16 Continuous Renal Replacement therapy for critically ill patients Competent 17 Point of care Ultrasound/FAST Scan/eFAST/Dengue Focal Scan Competent 18 Prone Ventilation Competent
19 Bronchoscopy and Broncho alveolar lavage (BAL) Observed and assisted 20 Percutaneous Dilated Tracheostomy Observed and assisted 21 Plasmapheresis and Therapeutic plasma exchange Observed and assisted 22 Needle thoracocentesis and IC tube insertion Competent 23 Cricothyroid puncture Competent
24 Performing USS guided Pleural and peritoneal paracentesis Competent 25 Transport of Critically ill patients Competent
26 Perform minor surgeries (wound debridement, incision &drainage of abscess/haematoma, Carpel tunnel decompression, lump excision-lipoma, sebaceous cyst, Primary and secondary suturing Competent
27 Open and Laparoscopic Major General Surgeries Observed and assisted 28 Upper and Lower GI endoscopies Observed and assisted 29 Suprapubic catheterization Competent
30 Safe application of Cervical collar & Pelvic binder, splinting for fracture immobilization, log rolling
Competent
31 Packing for achieving haemostasis in bleeding wounds Competent 32 IUCD, vaginal pessaries insertion and removal Competent 33 PAP Smear and Pipelle Biopsy Competent
34 Open and Laparoscopic Gynaecological Surgeries and caesarean section
Observed and assisted
35 Per vaginal examination and Speculum examination Competent Conferences and workshops attended
Date Conference / workshop Facility City/state
02/11/2019 to
03/11/2019
( 2 days)
3rd Sri Lankan
conference on
Emergency Medicine
Sri Lanka Society of Critical Care
and Emergency Medicine
Colombo, Sri
Lanka
11/08/2019 to
12/08/2019
(2 days)
Colombo International
Trauma Conference.
Accident and Orthopaedic
service, National Hospital of Sri
Lanka
Colombo, Sri
Lanka
01/08/2019 to
02/08/2019
(2 days)
11th Annual scientific
Sessions
Galoya Nimna Clinical Society Ampara, Sri
Lanka
28/11/2018 Annual Academic
Sessions
Ruhunu Clinical Society in
collaboration with Sri Lankan
Medical Association (SLMA)
Matara, Sri
Lanka
Language proficiency
• All tertiary level and professional qualifications have been obtained through examinations conducted in English Medium.
• Pearson Test of English (PTE) is scheduled in October 2022 Research and Publications
Co-author of following:
• Gestational age and birth weight centiles of singleton babies delivered normally following spontaneous labour, in Southern Sri Lanka.
o K Attanayake, S Munasinghe, M Goonewardene, P Widanapathirana, I Sandeepani
, L Sanjeewa.
o Ceylon Medical Journal 2018; 63 (1(sad) 17-23.
o https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29756422/
• Detailed analysis of high caesarean section rates – the second step after audits using the Ten Group Classification System.
o M. Goonewardene, M. Peiris, S. Kariyawasam, S. Mallawaarachchi, D. Kadawathage, L. Sanjeewa, P. Widanapathirana, I. Sandeepani
o Ceylon Medical Journal 2017; 62 (3); 149 -158
o https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29076705/
References
Referee 1 Referee 2
Name Dr.Ajith Kumara Dr. Udya Rodrigo
Designation Consultant Physician Consultant Critical Care Physician Address District General Hospital,
Ampara
Colombo North Teaching
Hospital
Email *************@*****.*** ***********@*****.*** Contact Number +947******** +947********
I verify the information contained within this curriculum vitae is true and correct at 23/05/2022.
Dr. Peksha Hasini Widanapathirana
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