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PROFESSOR
NANDADASA KODAGODA
Late Professor Nandadasa Kodagoda was born on 31st October
1929, in Hikkaduwa, in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka.
He grew up in the village of Ahangama, in the District of
Galle,
also situated in the Southern Province. He received his early
education at the Ahangama Temple School. After the first two
years of education,
he was admitted to Nalanda Vidyalaya, Colombo, and was educated
at Nalanda till the on-set of the 2nd World War.
Consequent to Sri Lanka (Ceylon as it was called then) getting
'involved' in the war, for security reasons, Nalanda Vidyalaya
was taken to a provincial area.
Young Nandasa's parents took him back to the Galle district,
and admitted him Mahinda Vidyalaya, in Galle.
Nandadasa completed his secondary education at Mahinda Vidyalaya,
and having passed the University Entrance Examination, entered
the Ceylon Medical College (presently called the Faculty of
Medicine of the University of Colombo).
Having graduated as a doctor in 1956, worked for the Health
Department and was attached to the government hospitals of
Galle, Colombo, & Karawanella. In 1958, he joined the
academic staff of the Colombo Medical School and worked as
a junior lecturer.
In 1961, he joined the Department of Forensic Medicine of
the Medical School. In 1962, he proceeded to the United Kingdom,
wherein he qualified as a Member of the Royal College of Physicians
(MRCP), and also became qualified as a Doctor of Medicine
(MD). Having returned to Ceylon in 1964, he continued to be
attached to the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ceylon,
wherein he was subsequnetly appointed a Senior Lecturer.
Later in 1984, he became the Professor of Forensic Medicine
of the University of Colombo. Subsequently, in 1990 he was
elected as the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, and later
in 1994 was appointed the Vice Chancellor of the University
of Colombo.
Professor Nandadasa Kodagoda was also the Chairman of the
National Dangerous Drugs Control Board, and also the founder
Chairman of the Alcohol & Drugs Information Centre (ADIC).
In
recognition of invaluable services rendered to the nation,
the late Professor Kodagoda was honoured by the vesting of
the Deshamanya, Kalakeerthi, Vishva Prasadinee, national awards.
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