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 adq6c5@r.postjobfree.com

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 adq6c5@r.postjobfree.com

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 adq6c5@r.postjobfree.com

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 adq6c5@r.postjobfree.com

Contact Phone +944********

+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 adq6c5@r.postjobfree.com

Contact Phone +949********

+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 adq6c5@r.postjobfree.com

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 adq6c5@r.postjobfree.com

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 adq6c5@r.postjobfree.com

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 adq6c5@r.postjobfree.com adq6c5@r.postjobfree.com 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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