S. R. Kottegoda

Vidya Jyothi
S.R. Kottegoda
Vidya Jyothi; S.R. Kottegoda
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo
	In office; 1970–?
Personal details
Born	3 November 1919; Tebuwana, Kalutara District
Died	28 March 1995; Rajagiriya
Spouse	Damayanti Rambukpota
Alma mater	Harvard Medical School; Oxford University; University of Ceylon; Royal College Colombo
Profession	Academic, Physician

S.R. Kottegoda was a Sri Lankan academic and physician. He was the Head of the Department of Pharmacology of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, thereafter becoming Dean of the Faculty, and later National Coordinator, Health Systems Research, Ministry of Health. He joined the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Faculty of Medicine of the National University of Singapore.

Kottegoda was a leading authority in the SLAAS on the subject of Ethics in Science, having established the oldest Ethics Review Committee in Sri Lanka.^[1]

Kottegoda is also the author of the definitive pictorial guide book ‘Flowers of Sri Lanka’.^[2]

References edit

^ Fernando A. (2014) Sri Lanka. In: ten Have H., Gordijn B. (eds) Handbook of Global Bioethics. Springer, Dordrecht [1]
^ Kalkman, C. "Review", Blumea, Vol 41, No 2, 1996 [2]

[1] Fernando A. (2014) Sri Lanka. In: ten Have H., Gordijn B. (eds) Handbook of Global Bioethics. Springer, Dordrecht [1]

[2] Kalkman, C. "Review", Blumea, Vol 41, No 2, 1996 [2]

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Vidya Jyothi S.R. Kottegoda

Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo
In office 1970–?

Personal details
Born	3 November 1919 Tebuwana, Kalutara District
Died	28 March 1995 Rajagiriya
Spouse	Damayanti Rambukpota
Alma mater	Harvard Medical School Oxford University University of Ceylon Royal College Colombo
Profession	Academic, Physician