Lucian Jayasuriya

Jayasurya has held many positions of responsibility in the Sri Lankan healthcare system.

Jayasuriya trained at Ceylon Medical College (later Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo) and joined the Health Ministry as an Intern Medical officer in 1962. His first posting after the internship was as District Medical Officer (DMO), Ittapana from April 1963 to April 1965.{{cite web|url=http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/03/19/fea06.htm |title =Ashamed of private practice Doctor returns consultation fee – Dr. Lucian Jayasuriya recalls | newspaper=The Daily News | date=19 March 2005 |accessdate=2012-12-03}} Jayasuriya held the posts of Director General Hospital Colombo (later renamed the National Hospital of Sri Lanka) 1982–1984, Director General Ministry of Teaching Hospitals 1984–1989 and Additional Secretary Ministry of Health 1995–1997.{{cite news |url=http://issuu.com/slmanews/docs/slmanews_2012_09?mode=window&pageNumber=1|title =Dr Lucien Jayasuriya | date=September 2012 |volume=5 |issue=9 | page=12 |publisher=Slmanews |accessdate=2012-12-03}}

He was Medical Advisor and later medical director of GlaxoSmithKline Sri Lanka from 1997 to 2013. He is part-time consultant to GlaxoSmithKline from 2014 to 2019{{cite web|url=http://www.sundaytimes.lk/090524/FinancialTimes/ft318.html|title =GSK donates Medicines for Sri Lankas displaced | newspaper=The Sunday Times | date=24 May 2009|publisher= Slmanews |accessdate=2012-12-03}}

Jayasuriya has provided leadership to several medical organisations..

He served as Founder and President of the Sri Lanka College of Venereologists from 1996 to 1997, President of the College of Medical Administrators in 1997{{cite web|url=http://cmasl.lk/download/2011_03%20%20Sri%20Lanka%20Journal%20of%20Medical%20Administration%20Vol%2013.pdf|title =The Sri Lanka Journal of Medical Administration 2011 volume 13 Past Presidents page26|publisher= cmasl.lk |accessdate=2012-12-03}} and as President of the Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA) in 1995.{{cite news |url=http://issuu.com/slmanews/docs/slmanews_2012_09?mode=window&pageNumber=1|title =Dr Lucien Jayasuriya SLMA News | date=September 2012 |volume=5 |issue=9 | page=12 |publisher= Slmanews |accessdate=2012-12-03}} He is credited with initiating career guidance seminars for doctors in Sri Lanka and initiating the health management committee of the SLMA. He also served on the Drugs Committee and Communicable Diseases Committee of the SLMA in addition to editing the SLMA Guidelines on Vaccines 2001, 2004, 2008, 2011.

Jayasuriya served as chairman of the Board of Management Postgraduate Institute of Medicine from 2001 to 2004 and again from 2011 to 2012,{{cite web|url=http://www.cmb.ac.lk/pgim/GEN/management1.html |title =Board of Management | date=January 2012|publisher= www.cmb.ac.lk|accessdate=2012-12-03}}{{cite news | url=http://archives.dailymirror.lk/2003/11/26/edit.asp |title =Health Ministry Heal Thyself | newspaper=The Daily Mirror | date=26 November 2003 |accessdate=2012-12-03}} as a council member of the Sri Lanka Medical Council,{{cite web|url=http://www.sundaytimes.lk/991107/newsm.html#2LABEL8 |title =Curbs on Herbs Faraza Farook | newspaper=The Sunday Times | date=7 November 1999 | accessdate=2013-02-20}} the National Stroke Association {{cite web |url=http://archives.dailymirror.lk/2004/05/26/news/3.asp |title=Rienzie elected to head National Stroke Association |date=26 May 2004 |newspaper=The Daily Mirror |accessdate=2013-02-20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921055101/http://archives.dailymirror.lk/2004/05/26/news/3.asp |archivedate=21 September 2013 |df=dmy-all }} and The safe bottle Lamp Foundation.{{cite web|url=http://safelamp.org/about.html |title =The safe bottle lamp foundation official website|publisher= safelamp.org|accessdate=2013-02-19}}

Jayasuriya has been a critic of both government ministries{{cite web|url=http://archives.dailymirror.lk/2003/11/26/edit.asp |title =Health Ministry Heal Thyself | date=26 November 2003| newspaper=The Daily Mirror |accessdate=2012-12-03}}{{cite web|url=http://www.sundaytimes.lk/990808/plus5.html|title =Taking in too many The Sunday Times | date=8 August 1999 | newspaper=Sunday Times |accessdate=2012-12-03}} as well as the medical trade union Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA).{{cite web|url=http://www.sundaytimes.lk/000402/newsm.html|title =Health reforms going ahead sans approval | date=2 April 2007 | newspaper=Sunday Times |accessdate=2012-12-03}} He is referred to as "a prominent and powerful figure in medical circles" in an editorial in the Daily Mirror.{{cite web|url=http://archives.dailymirror.lk/2004/04/28/edit.asp |title =Saving patients from medical traders The Daily Mirror | date=28 April 2004 | newspaper=The Daily Mirror |accessdate=2012-03-20}} He wrote the obituaries and appreciation of Surendra Ramachandran.{{cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lkawgw/appreciation10.htm |title = A brilliant man whose humility shone bright Dr Surendra Ramachandran | newspaper=Sunday Times | date=9 October 2010 | publisher=www.rootsweb.ancestry.com |accessdate=2013-02-22}}

Jayasuriya has been honoured by many of the medical educational institutions teaching medical management and by professional associations. These include:

• Honorary Fellowship of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine
• Honorary Fellowship of the College of General Practitioners of Sri Lanka
• Fellowship of the College of Medical Administrators
• Fellowship of the College of Venereologists{{cite web|url=http://www.slcven.org/history.html |title =History of Sri Lanka College of Venereologists|publisher= Sri Lanka college of Venereologists |accessdate=2012-12-03}}

He delivered the EM Wijerama endowment lecture awarded by the Sri Lanka Medical Association in 2003.{{cite web|url=http://archives.dailymirror.lk/2003/11/18/news/1.asp |title =Govt. health sector assured a place in Guinness Book The Daily Mirror | date=18 November 2003| newspaper=The Daily Mirror |accessdate=2012-12-03}}{{cite web|url=https://archives.sundayobserver.lk/2003/11/30/fea07.html |title =Towards a better managed Health service The Sunday Observer | date=30 November 2003 | newspaper=The Sunday Observer |access-date=2012-12-03}} He delivered the MPM Cooray memorial oration "Reflections of a Catholic Doctor" on 5 November 2011.,{{cite web|url=http://www.queenofangels.lk/messenger/06-11-2011-messenger.pdf |title =Reflections of a Catholic Doctor Messenger | date=30 October 2011 | newspaper= Messenger |accessdate=2013-02-18}}{{cite web|url=http://www.queenofangels.lk/messenger/22-01-2012-messenger.pdf |title =Reflections of a Catholic Doctor Messenger | page=5 | date=22 January 2012 | newspaper= Messenger |accessdate=2013-02-18}}

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