Past orations

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

2009
“Retrograde axonal degeneration in peripheral nerve injury in man”

Dr Sudath Gunasekera

Consultant Clinical Neurophysiologist, NHSL

 
2010
“Neurology in Sri Lanka – its pivotal expansion and iconic existence”

Dr Ranjanie Gamage

Consultant Neurologist, Institute of Neurology, NHSL

2019/20
Prof. Andrew Lee, Australia
Dr Ming Lim, UK
Dr Hadi Manji, UK
Prof. T Uampathi, Singapore
Prof. Curt LaFrance, Jr, USA
Prof. Angela Vincent, UK
Dr Saiju Jacob, UK
Prof. David Oliver, UK
Prof. Martin Brodie, UK
2018
Dr Peter Newman, UK
Dr Arani Nitkunan, UK
Dr Jon Sussman, UK
Dr Sanjiv Chawda, UK
Prof. Hugh Willison, UK
Dr Channa Hewamadduma, UK
Prof. Craig Anderson, Australia
Dr Andrew Lee, Australia
Dr Sugandhi Sridharan, USA
Dr Subhashie Wijemanne, USA
Prof. Mohammad Wasay, Pakistan
Dr Jeyaraj Pandian, India
Dr Dinesh Nayak, India
Dr Maya Thomas, India
Dr Nigel Syms, India
Prof. Gareth Parry, UK
Dr Sanjeev Thomas, UK
Prof. Ashalatha Radhakrishnan
2017
Prof. Kailash Bhatia, UK
Prof. Jason Ellis, UK
Dr Ellen Merete Hagen, UK
Ms Miranda M Hamlin, USA
Prof. Dheeraj Khurana, India
Dr Hrishikesh Kumar, India
Prof. Peter Langhorne, UK
Associate Prof. Henry Ma, Australia
Prof. Hugh Stephen Markus, UK
Associate Prof. Romesh Markus, Australia
Prof. Man Mohan Mehndiratta, India
Prof. Neil Robertson, UK
Associate Prof. Udaya Seneviratne, Australia
Prof. Raad Shakir, UK
Prof. Raj D Sheth, USA
Prof. Annette Sterr, UK
Associate Prof. Umapathi N Thirugnanam, Singapore
Dr Mohammad Wasay, Pakistan
Dr Jagath Wijesekera, UK
2016
Prof. Phil Smith, UK
Prof. Subhash Kaul, India
Prof. Fayyaz Ahmed, UK
Prof. Daniel Healy, UK
Dr Nasli Ichaporia, India
Prof. Rigmor Jensen Denmark
Prof. Christopher Kennard, UK
Dr Satish Khadilkar, India
Dr John Paul Leach, UK
Prof. Laura Silveira Moriyama, Brazil
Dr Bejoy Thomas, India
Dr Subhashie Wijemann, Texas
Prof. Adrian Wills, UK
2015
Prof. Jun Kumura, USA
Dr Kulan Nagendran, UK
Dr Simon Hammans, UK
Prof. Graham Holder, UK
Prof. Tom Warner, UK
Dr K Ravishankar, India
Dr Udaya Seneviratne, Australia
Dr S. S Surenthiran, UK
Prof. Michael Strupp, Germany
Dr Uditha Jayatunga
Prof. Asha Kishore, UK
2014
Dr Geraint Fuller, UK
Dr Mark Lawden, UK
Dr Manjari Tripathi, India
Dr Romesh Marcus, Australia
Dr Tom Hughes, UK
Dr Raad Shakir, UK
Prof. Angela Vincent, UK
Prof. Kazuo Fujihara, Japan
Dr Kevin Talbot, UK
Dr Mohit Bhatt, India
Prof. Christopher Chen, Singapore
Prof. Colin Masters, Australia
2013
Prof. Geraint Fuller, UK
Prof. Akihito Morita, Japan
Dr Gerard Saldana, UK
Dr Janice Knoefel, USA
Dr John Phillips, USA
Dr Mark Manford, UK
Prof. Michael Sedgwick, UK
Prof. Neil Scolding, UK
Dr Neil Wimalasuriya, UK
Prof. K Kodituwakku, USA
Dr Ralph Gregory, UK
Dr Sam Chong, UK
Dr Sidney Spector, USA
Dr Suresh Kumar, India
Dr K Sivakumar, USA

 

2012
Prof. Leslie Findley, UK
Prof. Kazuo Fujihara, Japan
Prof. Lekha Pandit, India
Prof. William Carroll, Australia
Prof. David Bates, UK
Prof. B S Singhal, India
Dr Mohammad Wasay, Pakistan
Prof. Fujio Umehara, Japan
Dr Martin Turner, UK
Dr Romesh Markus, Australia
Dr William Gibb, UK
Dr Wojtek Rakowicz, UK
Dr Umapathi Thirugnanam, Singapore
Dr Rajith De Silva, UK
Prof. Phil Smith, UK
Prof. Yasuyuki Okuma, Japan
Dr Louis Tan, Singapore
Dr Victor Fung, Australia
Dr Chantal Tallaksen, Norway
Dr Deepak Arjundas, India
Dr Paul Jarman, UK

 

2011
Prof. Martin Rossor, UK
Prof. Angela Vincent, UK
Prof. Carl E. Clarke, UK
Prof. Mary M Reilly, UK
Dr Lee Illis, UK
Prof. David Williams, Australia
Dr Tissa Wijeratne, Australia
Dr Udaya Seneviratne, Australia
Dr Andrew Churchyard, Australia
Dr Lim Shen Yang, Malaysia
Prof. Timothy S, Stiener, Norway
Dr K. Ravishankar, India

 

2010
 
Prof. Alastair Compston, UK
Prof. Lionel Ginsberg, UK
Dr Huw Morris. UK
Dr Louise Hartley, UK
Dr Stephen Wroe, UK
Prof. Mark Parsons, Australia
Dr Tissa Wijeratne, Australia
Dr N V Ramani, Singapore
Dr S Selvapandian, India
Prof. K Radhakrishnan, India

 

2009
Prof. Alastair Compston, UK
Dr Michael Donaghy, UK
Prof. Keith Muir, UK
Dr Hadi Manji, UK
Dr Heather Angus Leppan, UK
Prof. Werner Hacke, Germany
Dr S Prabhakar, India
Dr A V Srinivasan, India
Dr K Puvanendran, Singapore

 

2008
Dr Abdul Salam, India
Prof. Anand Vaishnav, USA
Dr Asha Kishore, India
Dr Y C Chan, Singapore
Dr Christopher Chen, Singapore
Dr Gareth Llewelyn, UK
Prof. Graham Venables, UK
Dr Jeyaraj Pandian, India
Dr Lalith Satkunam, Canada
Dr Mandy Thrift, Australia
Prof. M M Mehndiratta, India
Dr Mohammad Wasay, Pakistan
Prof. Phil Smith, UK
Dr Raad Shakir, UK
Dr Romesh Markus, Australia
Dr Sunil Wimalaratne, UK
Dr Tissa Wijeratne, Australia

 

2007
Prof. K Radhakrishnan, India
Dr Dinesh Nayak, India
Prof. Asha Kishore, India
Dr Abhijit Chaudhuri, UK