===Sri Lanka Medical Association Guest Lecture===
Join us at the SLMA Guest Lecture on Friday, 9 June 2023 from 12 noon – 1 PM at the SLMA Lionel Memorial Auditorium, 6 Wijerama Mawatha, Colombo 7, by Dr. Samandika Saparamadu – “Lifestyle Medicine: The Future of Chronic Disease Management.” Join us in person. Lunch will be provided.
Register today: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZYucOCoqT4uHNYHe3KGgd7O9jl1r…
Speaker: Samandika Saparamadu, MBBS, IBLM, is a primary care and lifestyle medicine physician. He graduated from the University of Colombo and was based in Singapore, working in public healthcare and medical startups. He is now reading for his MPH at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as a Dean’s Scholar.
Dr. Saparamadu is a charter member of the SLSLM and the Chair of the Lifestyle Medicine Research Alliance. He also serves as the President of the Asian Lifestyle Medicine Council and Executive Board Member of the World Lifestyle Medicine Organisation.
He is a medical/public health researcher and an invited reviewer for journals such as Nature Scientific Reports, Annals Academy of Medicine Singapore, and Qeios. His main research interests are chronic disease epidemiology, health policy, health equity, and health promotion.