Year Oration Title Orator Awarding Institution
2023 JB Peiris Oration, Association of Sri Lankan Neurologists, Annual Academic Sessions ‘Seizures in small brains’ Prof. Jithangi Wanigasinghe Association of Sri Lankan Neurologists
2021 JB Peiris Oration, Association of Sri Lankan Neurologists, Annual Academic Sessions ‘Autoimmune encephalitis: A Sri Lankan experience’ Prof. Thashi Chang Association of Sri Lankan Neurologists
2018 HC Bajoria Memorial Oration, Indian Epilepsy Association, Annual Academic Sessions West Syndrome: Quest for treatment options’ Prof. Jithangi Wanigasinghe Indian Epilepsy Association
2017 Murugesar Sinnetamby Oration of the Sri Lanka Medical Association ‘The Sri Lanka Clinical Trials Registry – Ten years of supporting Sri Lankan clinical research’ Prof. Udaya Ranawaka Sri Lanka Medical Association
2017 PB Fernando Memorial Oration of the Ceylon College of Physicians, Golden Jubilee Anniversary Sessions ‘The challenge of treating central nervous system infections’ Prof. Udaya Ranawaka Ceylon College of Physicians
2017 Meena Dhamija Oration of the Delhi Neurological Association ‘The challenge of central nervous system infections in the developing world’ Prof. Udaya Ranawaka Delhi Neurological Association
2015 The SLMA Oration 2015 at the 128th Anniversary International Medical Congress of the Sri Lanka Medical Association, 5 – 8 July 2015, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Friendly fire – neurons under attack! Studies from Sri Lanka’ Prof. Thashi Chang Sri Lanka Medical Association
2015 Valentine Basnayake Oration Music: A Neurologist’s encounter’ Prof. Nimal Senanayake Physiological Society of Sri Lanka
2014 Prof. CC de Silva Memorial Oration, 18th Annual Conference of the Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians A better outcome for Infantile spasms: What is the evidence’ Prof. Jithangi Wanigasinghe Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians
2014 The SLMA Oration 2014 at the Inaugural Ceremony of the 127th Anniversary International Medical Congress of the SLMA Hallucinations: tele-creations of the haunted mind’ Prof. Nimal Senanayake Sri Lanka Medical Association
2011 EV Pieris Memorial Oration 2011 at the 44th Annual Academic Sessions of the Ceylon College of Physicians, 15 – 17 September 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Pathogenicity of autoantibodies in neurological disorders’ Prof. Thashi Chang Ceylon College of Physicians
2010 Sir Nicholas Attygalle Oration of the Sri Lanka Medical Association ‘Stroke in Sri Lankan women – are they different?’ Prof. Udaya Ranawaka Sri Lanka Medical Association
2010 The Kandy Society of Medicine (KSM) Oration ‘Stroke in the Community – the Burden and the Challenge’ Prof. Udaya Ranawaka Kandy Society of Medicine
2005 Cyril Fernando Memorial Oration of the Ceylon College of Physicians Guillain-Barre syndrome – a Sri Lankan profile’ Prof. Udaya Ranawaka Ceylon College of Physicians
2004 The Kandy Society of Medicine (KSM) Oration Myasthenia Gravis; Decade of experience.’ Dr Padma Gunaratne Kandy Society of Medicine
2004 Sir Marcus Fernando Memorial Oration of the Sri Lanka Medical Association ‘Improving stroke care – what can we do?’ Prof. Udaya Ranawaka Sri Lanka Medical Association
2004 Senaka Bibile Memorial Oration of the Kandy Society of Medicine ‘Stroke – a Sri Lankan profile’ Prof. Udaya Ranawaka Kandy Society of Medicine
2000 K N Seneviratne Oration Postischaemic paraesthesiae and the diabetic nerve revisited’ Prof. Nimal Senanayake Physiological Society of Sri Lanka
2000 Senaka Bibile Memorial Oration of the Kandy Society of Medicine From fact to fiction and fiction to fact’ Prof. Nimal Senanayake Kandy Society of Medicine
1998 Sir Nicholas Attygalle Oration of the Sri Lanka Medical Association Sri Lankan Strokes’ Prof. Saman Gunatilake Sri Lanka Medical Association
1997 The SLMA Oration 1997 at the Inaugural Ceremony of the Anniversary International Medical Congress of the SLMA Organophosphorus insecticide poisoning’ Prof. Nimal Senanayake Sri Lanka Medical Association
1993 The SLMA Oration 1993 at the Inaugural Ceremony of the Anniversary International Medical Congress of the SLMA Reflex Epilepsies: Experience in Sri Lanka’ Prof. Nimal Senanayake Sri Lanka Medical Association
1992 The Kandy Society of Medicine (KSM) Oration On arrow poisons and beyond’ Prof. Nimal Senanayake Kandy Society of Medicine
1989 K N Seneviratne Oration Toxic polyneuropathies’ Prof. Nimal Senanayake Physiological Society of Sri Lanka
1987 The SLMA Oration 1987 at the Inaugural Ceremony of the Anniversary International Medical Congress of the SLMA Epilepsy control in a developing country’ Prof. Nimal Senanayake Sri Lanka Medical Association
1983 Sir Marcus Fernando Memorial Oration of the Sri Lanka Medical Association Some aspects of epilepsy in Sri Lanka’ Prof. Nimal Senanayake Sri Lanka Medical Association
1982 S C Paul Oration of the Sri Lanka Medical Association Stroke – a study of admission to General Hospital Colombo’ Dr JB Peiris Sri Lanka Medical Association