profession title article_title name alma_mater
academic , haematologist deputy dean of the imperial college school of medicine sunitha wickramasinghe
 sunitha wickramasinghe university of ceylon royal college colombo
sunitha wickramasinghe

sunitha wickramasinghe , frcp frcpath fibiol was a sri lankan born british academic and haematologist .
a professor of haematology , he was the former deputy dean of the imperial college school of medicine and one of the world 's leading authorities on congenital dyserythropoietic anaemias born to a family of scientists , his father was a cambridge educated mathematician .
educated at the royal college colombo , he went on to study medicine at the colombo medical college , university of ceylon graduating with an mbbs degree in 1964 .
moving to the united kingdom , he specialized in haematology and carried out research at the university of cambridge where he was elected to a gulbenkian research studentship .
he gained his phd in 1968 and was elected to the john lucas walker senior -lrb- post-doctoral -rrb- studentship in 1968 along with receiving a scd in 1984 .
he was elected to fellowships of the royal college of pathologists , the institute of biology and received honorary membership , later fellowship of the royal college of physicians as well as being made a honorary fellow of the sri lanka college of haematology .
prof wickramasinghe carried out research at the university of leeds , thereafter he joined the st mary 's hospital medical school in 1970 , serving until his retirement in 2000 .
during this time he was appointed professor of haematology and was deputy dean at imperial college school of medicine at st mary 's .
he introduced the bsc course in haematology at st mary 's .
