Family Medicine, Child health

Family Medicine, Women’s Health, Medical Education

• WONCA Fellowship Award 2018 at the WONCA World Conference in Seoul, South Korea, October 20^th 2018
• First prize award at the Research contest during the WONCA Asia Pacific Regional Conference in Seoul, South Korea 1997 for research paper by De Silva N. & Mendis K. titled “One day General Practice Morbidity Survey in Sri Lanka”.
• Award for Academic Excellence from the College of General Practitioners of Sri Lanka, Annual Academic Sessions 2009.
• ZONTA AWARD for Achievement in Medicine 2006 by the ZONTA Club 1, Colombo.
• Pulimood Memorial Oration 2006 on ‘Stress: the Mind Body Connection’ at Visakha Vidyalaya, Colombo 4.
• M.P.M. Cooray Memorial Gold Medal awarded for the College of General Practitioners of Sri Lanka Oration 2005 titled " Patient expectations and satisfaction with Consultations".
• M.P.M. Cooray Memorial Gold Medal awarded for the College of General Practitioners of Sri Lanka Oration 1998 titled “ Family Medicine in the Undergraduate Curriculum:Teaching and Learning ”.
• A M Fernando Memorial Award for the best research paper by De Silva N., Ferdinando K. and Wijegoonewardena ADPA. titled "Psychiatric Morbidity in 3 Family Practices" at the 12th Anniversary Scientific Sessions of the College of General Practitioners of Sri Lanka(1986).

Books and Chapters in Books 

1. Counselling Skills for Doctors. Nandani de Silva, 1999.
2. Lecture Notes in Family Medicine. Nandani de Silva. 2000.
3. Lecture Notes in Family Medicine. Nandani de Silva. Second Edition. Sarvodaya Lekha Publication. 2006. Reprinted 2012.
4. Lecture Notes in Family Medicine. Third Edition 2017. Reprinted 2018 & 2021.
5. Communication Skills and Counselling Skills for Doctors: a guide to teaching and learning in small groups. Nandani de Silva. Postgraduate Institute of Medicine of Sri Lanka, University of Colombo 2005. Sponsored by WHO.
6. Wimala de Silva & Nandani de Silva. Chapter on "Impact of the dual role" in Occupational Health Hazards of Women Workers, Centre for Women's Research, Sri Lanka, 1993.
7. Nandani de Silva. Chapter 5. Current status of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programmes conducted by Professional Colleges, Associations and Clinical Societies in Sri Lanka in " Continuing professional development of health personnel, a developing country perspective" WHO publication 2003.
8. Contributor to Chapter 4 on ‘Education and Professional Development’ in The Contribution of Family Medicine to Improving Health Systems. A Guidebook from WONCA. Second Edition. Radcliffe Publishing Ltd. London. 2013.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles and Conference Abstracts 

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CD / DVD Productions

1. Communication Skills in the Doctor-Patient Encounter. DVD produced at the Open University of Sri Lanka for the Sri Lanka Medical Association. Available with English sub-titles. or DFM online course 2008-2010 at the PGIM.
2. Counselling Skills for Doctors. DVD produced at the Open University of Sri Lanka for the Sri Lanka Medical Association. Available with English sub-titles. Used for DFM course 2008/2010.
3. DVD of the College of General Practitioners of Sri Lanka 33^rd Annual Academic Sessions with audio-recordings of power point presentations 6^th & 7^th October 2007.
4. CD on Clinical Audit. CPD Programme for Doctors, Department of Health Sciences, The Open University of Sri Lanka 2009-2015.
5. CD on ‘Focus on Family in Family Practice’ MCGP course 2011-2021.
6. DVD on the Black Dog Model in Treatment of Depression for DFM online, Postgraduate Institute of Medicine (PGIM) 2009/2010. Open University of Sri Lanka and Black Dog Institute, University of New South Wales.
7. CD on Mindfulness Meditation Practice Session for Lecture on Stress Management

Design & Delivery of Online courses / Open Educational Resources

1.  Online Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Programme comprising three Continuing Medical Education (CME) courses designed on LMS Moodle and delivered from the Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL) via the National Online Distance Education Service (NODES) from 2008 to 2015. ousl.nodes.lk
2. Open Educational Resources (OER) - ‘Clinical Audit’ narrated powerpoint presentation available in (OER) section of the Open University of Sri Lanka website www.ou.ac.lk www.oer.ou.ac.lk/index.php/medical-sciences
3. Resource person and Tutor Mentor for Postgraduate Diploma in Family Medicine Online via NODES and Postgraduate Institute of Medicine from 2007 to 2012. pgim.nodes.lk
4. Postgraduate Institute of Medicine (PGIM). Training and Teaching online 2019 / 2021 through PGIM Learning Management System http://lms.pgim.cmb.ac.lk

• Resource person for Workshop on Interactive Online Teaching in Moodle for Trainers in Family Medicine 2020.
• Lecturer for PgDip FamMed 2019
• MDFM 2021-2023

Editorial work

• Editor of the CME Bulletin, Sri Lanka Medical Association 2002-2006.
• Editor and Co-Author of the Manual for Institutional Review of Sri Lankan Universities and Higher Educational Institutions, UGC April 2015.
• Member of the Editorial Board of Silhouette, KDU 2014-2015 and 2015-2016.
• Member of the Editorial Committee of the Proceedings of the 8th International Research Conference, KDU,
• Member of the Editorial Board of the KDU Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies 2016/ 2017.
• Member of Editorial Board and Reviewer for Sri Lankan Family Physician.
• Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) 2013. Reviewer for online research publications http://www.jmir.orgM
• Reviewer for WONCA Journal, Education for Primary Care.

International Professional Organizations, Conferences and Workshops

• WONCA (World Organization of Family Doctors).
  • Council member 2007-2010.
  • Executive member of the WONCA Working Party on Education.
• Represented Sri Lanka as Vice Chancellor of The Open University of Sri Lanka, at Asian Association of Open Universities (AAOU) conferences in China (2006) and Malaysia (2007).
• Invited Resource Person to a National Workshop in Dhaka, Bangladesh to introduce Family Medicine into the undergraduate curriculum in year 2000.
• Invited Resource Person to a National Workshop on Training of Trainers in Yangon, Myanmar in 2004.

National Professional Organizations, State Universities, Ministries and Institutions

• College of General Practitioners of Sri Lanka
  • President 2007/08.
  • Vice President 2005/2006.
• Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA)
  • Vice President 2004 & Chairperson of Medical Education Committee 2004/05.
• Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC)
  • Consultant for national CPD programme 2011.
• University of Moratuwa
  • Council Member from 2010 / 2012.
  • UGC representative on Board of Management of the Centre for Open and Distance Learning (CODL) 2009 to date.
• Postgraduate Institute of Medicine (PGIM), University of Colombo
  • Chairperson, Board of Study in Family Medicine 2009 – 2011.
  • Project Director for the DFM course by distance education 2001 to 2006.
  • Chief Examiner for DFM & MD examination 2004/2005/2007.
  • Examiner for DFM in India 2005 to 2009.
• Ministry of Higher Education
  • Member of the Project Steering Committee of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Distance Education Modernization Project (DEMP) 2006/2009;
  • Quality Assurance Resource Person and SLQF Reviewer for the World Bank HETC project 2014.
• University Grants Commission –
  • Member of the Standing Committees for Medical and Dental Degrees (3 year term)
  • Member of the Standing Committee for Quality Assurance and Accreditation 2006/09
  • Member of the Standing Committee for Distance Education and External degrees 2006/09.
  • Member of the Standing Committee for External Degrees and Extension Courses 2009/2011.
  • Chairperson of the Special Task Force Committee on Strengthening of English and IT Skills through online learning and Coordinator of the project from October 2016 – March 2017. ugc.ac.lk and www.itue.lk