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B. J. C. Perera | |
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| Nationality | Sri Lankan |
| Occupation | Pediatrician |
| Title | Doctor |
B. J. C. Perera is a Sri Lankan pediatrician. [1] He is the Editor-in-Chief of Sri Lanka Journal of Bio-Medical Informatics. [2]
B. J. C. Perera was born in Wadduwa, Sri Lanka on 14 July 1947, the son of Victor Perera and Rose Perera.[ citation needed ]
Perera married Dr. Sarojini Perera in 1975.[ citation needed ] Currently,[ when? ] they reside in Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka. They have a daughter, Ruth Maneesha and three grandchildren, Joshua, Malaika and Jaydon. [3]
Perera had his primary education at De Mazenod College, Kandana up to Grade 8. He proceeded to St Peter's College, Colombo.[ citation needed ] He wrote his Advanced Level Exam in 1964. He enrolled at the Faculty of Medicine, Colombo in 1965 and qualified with MBBS (Ceylon) 2nd Class Honours in 1970.[ citation needed ] Perera had further Postgraduate Education in Sri Lanka as well as the UK.[ citation needed ]
He was the first President of the Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians, [4] He was the founding president of the Respiratory Diseases Study Group of Sri Lanka,[ when? ][ citation needed ] founding president of the Childhood Respiratory Study Circle of Sri Lanka,[ when? ][ citation needed ] National Consultant, Programme for control of Acute Respiratory Infections of the Ministry of Health, Chairman Board of Study in Paediatrics of The Postgraduate Institute of Medicine,[ when? ] Founding Member of The Board of Study in Sports Medicine of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine[ when? ][ citation needed ] and Member of the Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM).[ when? ][ citation needed ]
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