Specialization

:Family Medicine, Medical Informatics

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• Family medicine, medical informatics, evidence base medicine, obesity

Publications in peer reviewed journals:

• Mendis K, De Silva AHW, Perera DP, Withana SS, Premasiri BHS, Jayakody S. "Morbidity pattern and process of care at a teaching hospital outpatient department in sri lanka".Sri Lanka Medical Association 130th Anniversary Medical Congress. 2017. p. 35.
• Withana SS, Perera DP, De Silva AHW, Mendis K, Premasiri BHS, Jayakody S. "Patient centred view of primary care morbidity at a teaching hospital in Sri Lanka". 43rd Annual Academic Sessions of College of General Practitioners of Sri Lanka. 2017. p. 38.
• Wong, Kam Cheong, Anthony M. Brown, Georgina M. Luscombe, Shin Jie Wong, and Kumara Mendis. "Antibiotic use for Vibrio infections: important insights from surveillance data." BMC infectious diseases 15, no. 1 (2015): 1.
• Mendis K, Greenhill J, Walker J, Bailey J, Croft A, Doyle Z, McCrossin T, Stevens W. "2014 Rural Clinical School Training and Support Program Snapshot survey." Rural Remote Health. 2015 Oct-Dec;15(4):3276.
• Bailey, J. K., K. Mendis, T. Dutton, W. Stevens, and T. McCrossin. "A decade of Rural Clinical School research: a PubMed." Rural and remote health 15, no. 3353 (2015).
• Mendis, Kumara, Jannine Bailey, and Rick McLean. "Tracking Australian health and medical research expenditure with a PubMed bibliometric method." Australian and New Zealand journal of public health 39, no. 3 (2015): 227-231.
• Mendis, Kumara, Tegan Edwards, Wendy Stevens, and Tim McCrossin. "Bibliometric analysis on Australian rural health publications from 2006 to 2012." Australian journal of rural health 22, no. 4 (2014): 189-196.
• Mendis, Kumara, Tanya Forster, Karen Paxton, Karen Hyland, Jason Yelverton, Rick McLean, Joseph Canalese, Anthony Brown, and Katharine Steinbeck. "Large and forgotten in rural Australia: assessment, attitudes and possible approaches to losing weight in young adult males." BMC public health 14, no. 1 (2014): 1.
• Brendt, Peter, Marc Schnekenburger, Karen Paxton, Anthony Brown, and Kumara Mendis. "Endotracheal tube cuff pressure before, during, and after fixed-wing air medical retrieval." Prehospital Emergency Care 17, no. 2 (2013): 177-180.
• De Lusignan, S., Christopher Pearce, P. Kumarapeli, C. Stavropoulos, A. Kushniruk, A. Sheikh, A. Shachak, and Kumara Mendis. "Reporting observational studies of the use of information technology in the clinical consultation. A position statement from the international medical informatics association primary care informatics working group (IMIA PCI WG)." IMIA Yearbook 2011: Towards Health Informatics 3.0 (2011): 39-47.
• Mendis, Kumara, Michael Kidd, Peter Schattner, and Joseph Canalese. "A bibliometric analysis of Australian general practice publications from 1980 to 2007 using PubMed." Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics 18, no. 4 (2010): 223-233.
• McLean, Rick, Kumara Mendis, and Joe Canalese. "A ten-year retrospective study of unplanned hospital readmissions to a regional Australian hospital." Australian Health Review 32, no. 3 (2008): 537-547.
• McLean, Rick, Kumara Mendis, Bruce Harris, and Joseph Canalese. "Retrospective bibliometric review of rural health research: Australia's contribution and other trends." Rural Remote Health 7, no. 4 (2007): 767.
• Mendis, Kumara. "Health informatics research in Australia: retrospective analysis using PubMed." Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics 15, no. 1 (2007): 17-23.
• Mendis, Kumara, and Rick McLean. "Increased expenditure on Australian health and medical research and changes in numbers of publications determined using PubMed." Medical journal of Australia 185, no. 3 (2006): 155.
• Mendis, Kumara, and Indragit Solangaarachchi. "PubMed perspective of family medicine research: where does it stand?." Family Practice 22, no. 5 (2005): 570-575. With related Editorial

• Mendis, Kumara, Indragith Solagarchchi, and Chaminda Weerabaddana. "PubMed Grabber/Analyzer–a tool for off-line analysis of PubMed." Journal of Korean Society of Medical Informatics 9, no. Suppl 2 (2003): S244-9.
• Kumara Mendis, A. Patmeshwaran, Asoka Moragoda."eSriLanka – why health should be part of the roadmap" Proceedings of the 22st National IT conference, Colombo, Sri Lanka;(2003) July 3-4th.
• Kidd, Michael, Kumara Mendis, and Wendy McPhee. "The Doctor-Patient-Computer Interaction-How New Technology Can Be an Aid and a Barrier In Clinical Practice." STUDIES IN HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATICS 2 (2001): 1520-1520.
• Fernando, B.,K. Mendis. "Accessing emergency test results on ward computers: Introduction of electronic communication alone would not improve clinical care." (2001).
• Ravi P. Rannan-Eliya, Varuni Sumathiratne, Leela Karunaratne, Kumara Mendis "The private general practitioner market in Sri Lanka: Methods and results from the first national survey" Third International Health Economics Association Conference, University of York, UK (2001)
• De Silva, Nandani, and Kumara Mendis. "One-day general practice morbidity survey in Sri Lanka." Family Practice 15, no. 4 (1998): 323-331.

• Mendis, K. "Medical computing 1." (1994).