Past JB Peiris Orators

2024
“Is Silence Always Golden? Singing Snake Bite Victim That Led To Research In Self-Therapy For Aphasia”

Prof. KD Pathirana

Honorary Consultant Neurologist, Professor in Medicine, Head, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ruhuna

2023
“Seizures in small brains”

Prof. Jithangi Wanigasinghe

Professor in Paediatric Neurology, University of Colombo
Honorary Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, National Hospital of Sri Lanka

2022
“Monkeys Playing Video Games Lead to a Paralysed Man Walking”

Dr Noeline Prins

Senior Lecturer, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Ruhuna

2021
“Autoimmune encephalitis: A Sri Lankan experience”

Prof. Thashi Chang

Professor in Neurology, University of Colombo Honorary Consultant Neurologist, National Hospital of Sri Lanka

2019/20
“Advances in neurobiological aspects of functional neurological (conversion) disorder”

Prof. Curt LaFrance, Jr

Director of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioural Neurology, Rhode Island Hospital
Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, Brown University
Providence RI, USA

2018
“Normal and abnormal brain plasticity in Musicians Dystonia as a model of task specific dystonia”

Dr Jon Sussman

Consultant Neurologist and Clinical Director Medical Neurosciences, Greater Manchester Neuroscience Centre (GMNC)
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
United Kingdom

2017
“Rhythmicity in epilepsy: A journey in search of the epileptogenic pacemaker”

Dr Udaya Seneviratne

Consultant Neurologist & Epileptologist Monash Medical Centre Melbourne, Australia

2016
“From frogs to man; a 45-year odyssey in clinical neuro-ophthalmological research"

Prof. Christopher Kennard

Head of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, UK

2015
“Using stem cell technology to study neurodegenerative disease”

Prof. Tom Warner

Prof. of Clinical Neuroscience at UCL Institute of Neurology

2014
“Preclinical interventions for secondary prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease”

Dr Colin Masters

Executive Director, Mental Health Research Institute and Laureate Professor, University of Melbourne

2013
“Religious Feeling and its Representation in the Brain”

Dr Mark Manford

Consultant Neurologist, Bedford and Addenbrooke’s Hospitals, UK Associate Lecturer, University of Cambridge, UK

2012
“Epilepsy is different”

Prof. Phil Smith

Consultant Neurologist, Cardiff, UK, Co-Editor, Practical Neurology

2011
“Exploring Sri Lankan Neurology”

Prof. Saman Gunatilake

Professor of Medicine, University of Sri Jayawardenepura Consultant Neurologist, CSTH

2010
“Retrograde axonal degeneration in peripheral nerve injury in man”

Dr Sudath Gunasekera

Consultant Clinical Neurophysiologist, NHSL

2009
“Neurology in Sri Lanka – its pivotal expansion and iconic existence”

Dr Ranjanie Gamage

Consultant Neurologist, Institute of Neurology, NHSL

 

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