Dr Supun Withana
MBBS (Kel), MPhil
Senior Lecturer (Grade II)
Department of Family Medicine
Department of Family Medicine
Research Interests
- Family Medicine
- Cancer
- Medical Education
Publications
Publications in Peer Reviewed Journals
- Yezarni Wynn, Urvashi Prasad, Shehan Williams, Sasmitha Karunarathna, Supun Withana, Dinusha Perera, Kumara Mendis and Arun Ravindran. Improving the Detection of Depressive Disorder in Sri Lanka - Pages 25-34 [Internet]. synergy. [cited 2021 Jan 7]. Available from: https://synergypublishers.com/downloads/ijcpmhv8a6/
- Mendis K, Weerasooriya TC, Withana S, Liyanage P, Silva AW, Wickramasinghe R, Weerabaddana C. Cloud-Based Open Source Primary Care Electronic Patient Record System for Sri Lankan Citizens. National Information Technology Conference (NITC) 2019 Oct 8 (pp. 41-46). IEEE.
- Mendis K, De Silva AHW, Anthony A, Randenikumara S, Withana S, Arulanandem K, et al. Guiding the frontliners to face the pandemic: The story of preparing guidelines for Sri Lankan primary care for COVID-19. In: National Science Foundation; p. 162–170
- Perera DP, Withana SS, Mendis K, Kasunjith DV, Jayathilaka WT, Wickramasuriya S. Evaluation of the undergraduate family medicine programme of Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya: quantitative and qualitative student feedback. BMC Medical Education. 2019 Dec 1;19(1):444.
- Withana SS, Mendis K, Wickramasinghe AR, Nandasena S. Ecology of healthcare: Symptom prevalence and healthcare seeking behaviour of Gampaha district Sri Lanka. 132nd Medical congress, Sri Lanka Medical Association OP35, 2019
- 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.
- Withana SS, Mendis K, Nandasena S, Wickramasinghe AR “Ecology of healthcare in Sri Lanka: more symptoms or high care seeking or both?” 23rd World Conference of Family Doctors OP 540, November 2021
- Withana SS, Mendis K, Nandasena S, Wickramasinghe AR “Does healthcare seeking differ because of having non-communicable disease? Data from a health diary study” Second International Conference on Community Medicine and Public Health, Global Academic Research Institute Publication, Conference proceedings, OP 34, August 2020. p 44
- Withana SS, Mendis K, Nandasena S, Wickramasinghe AR, Liyanage UP, Subasinghe SMV. “Symptom frequency and healthcare utilization of children in the Gampaha District: Community-based health diary study”. 24th Annual Scientific Congress 2022. Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians, Colombo, Sri Lanka. PP16.
- Mendis K, Withana SS, Solangaarachchi DIK, De Silva AHW, Perera DP. “PubMed perspectives of Family Medicine Research from 2004 – 2016: Where does it stand?” 22nd WONCA World Conference of Family Doctors 2018 Seoul, Korea PP-1-233
- Perera DP, Withana SS, Mendis K, Kasunjith DVT, Jayathilake WTS, Wickramasuriya SW, Govinthadas S, Kalansooriya R, Welhenage C. “Why do people travel up to 70km to seek treatment from the Colombo North Teaching Hospital Outpatient Department? A qualitative study”. 131st Annual scientific sessions, Sri Lanka Medical Association, July 2018, Colombo. PP031
Contact Details
Department
Family Medicine
Family Medicine
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