Rezvi Sheriff

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Mohamed Rezvi Sheriff
NationalitySri Lankan
Education University of Colombo
Royal College Colombo
Zahira College Colombo
Occupation(s)Consultant physician and nephrologist National Hospital Sri Lanka, director of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine and senior professor of Medicine, head of the Department of Clinical Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo
Employer University of Colombo
Known forCo-founder of Sri Lanka's First Kidney Transplant Programme and Dialysis Unit

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Postgraduate Medical Educationist
Title Vidya Jyothi Professor

Mohamed Hussain Rezvi Sheriff is a Sri Lankan academic, nephrologist, and physician. He served as director of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, senior professor of medicine, and head of the Department of Clinical Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo. He has been a senior professor of medicine at General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University since 2018. [1] He is a consultant physician and nephrologist at the National Hospital of Sri Lanka. [2] He is also the founder and owner of Western Hospital. [3]

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Education

Sheriff began his formal education at Zahira College, Colombo, and later received a scholarship for Royal College Colombo. [4] [5] He subsequently entered the Faculty of Medicine in Royal College Colombo, obtaining a Bachelor of Medicine, a Bachelor of Surgery, and a Doctor of Medicine. Sheriff is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and the Ceylon College of Physicians. [6]

Career

Sheriff began his academic career as a lecturer in medicine in the Department of Medicine under Professor Kumaradasa Rajasuriya in 1973. He obtained his MRCP after completing his postgraduate training in the UK and returned to Sri Lanka. His academic career in the Sri Lankan university system spans several decades. [7]

Sheriff worked with A. H. Sheriffdeen to establish the first transplant program in Sri Lanka in October 1985. With the support of the Colombo University team, they performed the first kidney transplant in the country. [8] Alongside Surendra Ramachandran, Sheriff contributed to the development of nephrology as a specialty in Sri Lanka. Reports indicate that nearly 1,000 transplants have been conducted under his oversight. [9] He became Professor of Medicine in 1990 and was promoted to Senior Professor of Medicine in 1998. [7]

Sheriff is a senior advisory board member to SACTRC (South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration) [10] with Nimal Senanayake, Ravindra Fernando and Janaka de Silva. He founded the University of Oxford Colombo (OxCol) for studies on snake bites and yellow oleander poisoning. He served as the president of the Sri Lanka Medical Association, Ceylon College of Physicians, [11] Sri Lanka Association for Nephrology and Transplantation, SAARC Society of Nephrology, Urology and Transplant Surgery and the founding president of the Hypertension Society in Sri Lanka in addition to being a founder of the Health Informatics Society in Sri Lanka [12] and a councillor of the International Society of Nephrology. Rezvi is an External Examiner for MRCP in UK & Chennai. He is the Ceylon College of Physicians Coordinator for MRCP Examinations in Sri Lanka. He was appointed as the president of Sri Lanka Medical Association in 2009. [13]

He has published academic articles on nephrology, organ transplantation, snake bites, and oleander poisoning. [14]

Sheriff is also the founder and chairman of Western Infirmary Hospital in Colombo, a center for renal disease care, dialysis, and transplantation. [9] [15] In 2011, he was rated as the most prolific scientist from Sri Lanka according to the Web of Science database. [16]

He retired from the University of Colombo on 30 September 2014, after rendering 41 years of service. [9]

Honours and awards

Sheriff is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, the College of General Practitioners of Sri Lanka and a Fellow of the National Academy of Science of Sri Lanka.

The prestigious honour Vidya Jyothi was conferred upon him by the Government of Sri Lanka in 1993 in recognition of his contribution to nephrology, dialysis and transplantation in Sri Lanka. He also received a Lion International Merit Award. [17]

Controversy

In 2019, Sheriff filed complaints with the Criminal Investigation Department over social media allegations that he treated Zahran Hashim, the prime suspect behind the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings. [18]

Personal life

In October 2022, Sheriff underwent a kidney transplant at the Western Infirmary/Western Hospital. [8]

References

  1. ↑ "Medical Council Administering medical practitioners' oath". www.dailymirror.lk. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  2. ↑ "Prof Rezvi Sheriff". Archived from the original on 25 August 2011. Retrieved 30 September 2011.
  3. ↑ "Western Hospital introduces Sri Lanka's most affordable dialysis solution Mercy dialysis and ties up with world number 1 Dialysis Company to provide world class dialysis on World Kidney Day 2021 - Press Releases | Daily Mirror". www.dailymirror.lk. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  4. ↑ Farook, Text and Pictures by Ruzaik. "Founder's Day celebrations". Daily News. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  5. ↑ "Zahira College holds Founders Day | Daily FT". www.ft.lk. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  6. ↑ "Fellows Directory - R | S".
  7. 1 2 "Retirement of Senior Professor Rezvi Sheriff | The Sundaytimes Sri Lanka" . Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  8. 1 2 "From kidney transplant pioneer to patient: Personal saga of Professor Rezvi Sheriff". Print Edition - The Sunday Times, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  9. 1 2 3 "Grand round, felicitation and academic sessions in honour of Prof. Rezvi Sheriff | Daily News Online : Sri Lanka's National News". Archived from the original on 19 January 2015. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
  10. ↑ "SACR Governance". Sactrc.org. Retrieved 30 September 2011.
  11. ↑ "History". Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
  12. ↑ "Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka (HISSL)" (PDF). Hissl.org. Retrieved 30 September 2011.
  13. ↑ "Prof. Rezvi Sheriff on Sri Lanka's double burden of diseases". archives.dailynews.lk. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  14. ↑ "Articles and Books by Prof Sheriff". Cmb.ac.lk. Retrieved 30 September 2011.
  15. ↑ "About Prof. Sheriff". Westernhospital.lk. 14 September 2015. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
  16. ↑ "Prof Rezvi Sheriff, most prolific scientist". archives.dailynews.lk. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  17. ↑ "Vidyajyothi Professor Mohamed Hussain Rezvi Sheriff MBBS, MD, MRCP (UK), FRCP (Lon), FRCP (Edin), FRACP, FCCP, FSLCGP". Cmb.ac.lk. Archived from the original on 25 August 2011. Retrieved 30 September 2011.
  18. ↑ "Prof. Rezvi Sheriff files action against allegation". Daily News. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
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