Deshamanya Surendra Ramachandran, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians was a Sri Lankan Physician and Nephrologist.
Education
Educated at Royal College Colombo, he studied medicine Colombo Medical College now known as Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo where he obtained first class honours in the 2nd, 3rd and final Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery examinations with distinctions in Physiology, Biochemistry, Pharmacology, Pathology, Bacteriology, Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynaecology. He was awarded the Vaithilingam Gold Medal in Physiology, Loos Gold Medal in Pathology, Andrew Caldecott Gold Medal for the best performance in the final Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, Dadabhoy Gold Medal for Medicine and the Perry exhibition for the best performance in the final Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery.
Career
He was then awarded the British Council scholarship and trained in the University College Hospital, London passing Membership of the Royal College of Physicians London, Edinburgh and Glasgow and subsequently became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. Ramachandran was committed to performing research throughout his career and much of it was done at a time when there was no formal funding or encouragement from the Ministry of Health, although his primary area of specialisation was nephrology his research reflected the General Medical Practice in rural Sri Lanka at the time and a strong commitment to General Internal Medicine throughout his distinguished career. His research publications covered nephrology, malaria, typhoid, diabetes,alcohol induced disease, Health care in the elderly, hepatic amoebiasis, and leptospirosis.