Faculty

Professor Shaman Rajindrajith graduated from the University of Ruhuna in 1996. He completed his postgraduate training in North Colombo Teaching Hospital, the Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children in Colombo and in the John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, UK, where he was trained in paediatric gastroenterology during 2002-2004. He obtained his MD (paediatrics) in 1999 and MRCPCH (UK) in 2004, and FRCPCH (UK) in 2014.

He was appointed as the Chair professor of Paediatrics, University of Kelaniya in 2017, and currently serving as the Chair professor of Paediatrics, University of Colombo, since 2018. He is also a consultant paediatrician at the Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children. He established and runs the only paediatric gastroenterology clinic of the country.

He is a keen researcher, especially in functional gastrointestinal disorders in children. In addition to that, he published widely on other paediatric gastrointestinal disorders including inflammatory bowel disease, and viral gastroenteritis as well. To date, he has 85 publications and a h-index of 32. He is the highest ranked paediatrician in the country in the AD Scientific Index in 2021.

He serves as a member of the editorial boards of several key journals including Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility, Indian Journal of Gastroenterology, World Journal of Gastroenterology, World Journal of Pediatrics, and Frontier Pediatrics. He is a member of the prestigious Rome V committee. Prof Rajindrajith is currently the President of Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians.