Dr. M.G.D.V.K. Kiridana
Senior Lecturer
 
Publications
  1. Kiridana M.G.D.V.K, Vidanapathirana G, Kalupahana N.S. Characteristics associated with successful treatment outcome in children with overweight and obesity at a tertiary care obesity management clinic in Sri Lanka. World Congress in Primary Health Care 2021

  2. Kiridana M.G.D.V.K, Karunaratne R.R, Munasinghe T.S, Karunadasa U.I, Ranasinghe O.R.J.C, Jayathilake A.D.G, Abeygoonaratne L.S.P, Abeysekara C.K, Prevalence of Obesity, Overweight & Metabolic syndrome among children of 10-15year age group in Kandy municipality area. Sri Lanka Journal of Medicine. 2021;30(1):16-24

  3. Kiridana M.G.D.V.K, Karunaratne R.R, Vidanapathirana G, Soysa WRS, Kalupahana N.S. Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the response to treatment of obese children on a clinic-based lifestyle management programme. 43rd Annual Academic Sessions of Sri-Lanka College of Paediatricians, January, 2021.

  4. Kiridana M.G.D.V.K, Senadheera G.D.C.M, Effects of feeding practices on the prevalence of infections in infants attending the well-baby clinics of two tertiary care hospitals. 43rd Annual Academic Sessions of Sri-Lanka College of Paediatricians, January, 2021.

  5. Kiridana M.G.D.V.K, Weerasinghe W.M.C.L, Wanasinghe W.A.K, Hettiarachchi H.C.M. pleuropulmonary Blastoma presenting as a massive pneumothorax- an unusual presentation; a case report. 43rd Annual Academic Sessions of Sri-Lanka College of Paediatricians, January, 2021.

  6. Kiridana M.G.D.V.K Management of childhood obesity. Opinion article, Hanthana Vision Research Magazine volume 5 issue 2

  7. Kiridana M.G.D.V.K,Karunaratne R.R, Munasinghe T.S, Karunadasa U.I, Ranasinghe O.R.J.C, Jayathilake A.D.G,Abeygoonaratne L.S.P,Abeysekara C.K, Prevalence of Obesity, Overweight & Metabolic syndrome among children of 10-15year age group in Kandy municipality area. 42nd Annual Academic Sessions of Kandy Society of Medicine, February, 2020.

  8. V.Kiridana, C K Abesekara, S Kalupahana, ,Prevalence of childhood metabolic syndrome, general characteristics, risk factors and comorbidities among children who attend the obesity clinic at teaching hospital Peradeniya. Archives of disease in childhood, 2019;104

  9. Chief Editor: “What to do in Paediatrics?” Kiridana M.G.D.V.K, Dayawansa K.R, Wickremasinghe N, The Burden of Retinopathy of Prematurity among the newborns at the Teaching Hospital, Peradeniya. Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health,2009;38:

  10. Kiridana M.G.D.V.K, BCG Vaccination scars of internally displaced children in the north of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka journal of child health,2010;39:

  11. Kiridana M.G.D.V.K, Treatment of children with Typhoid fever: a comparative trial of Cotrimoxazole and Ampicillin in General Hospital Vavuniya. 5th Asian Congress on Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Taipei,2010 

  12. Kiridana M.G.D.V.K, BCG Vaccination status of internally displaced children in the north of Sri Lanka. 5th Asian Congress on Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Taipei,2010 

  13. Kiridana M.G.D.V.K, Abeygunawardena, A Case of Malignant Hypertension; Nephrology Symposium, 2nd scientific congress of the paediatric association of SAARC countries, September 2003.

  14. Kiridana M.G.D.V.K, Jayatunga R, Monitoring of Thalassaemia patients at Sandwell General Hospital, Annual Academic Sessions of Sri Lankan Doctors Association in the United Kingdom, May 2007

  15. Kiridana M.G.D.V.K, Dayawansa K.R, Wickremasinghe N, The Burden of Retinopathy of Prematurity among the newborns at the Teaching Hospital, Peradeniya; 26th annual academic sessions of Kandy medical society of medicine, February 2004.

  16. Kiridana M.G.D.V.K, Dayawansa K.R, Wickremasinghe N, The Burden of Retinopathy of Prematurity among the newborns at the Teaching Hospital, Peradeniya; 8th annual scientific congress of the Sri Lanka College of paediatricians, August, 2004

  17. Kiridana M.G.D.V.K, Management of acute severe malnutrition in Vavuniya district, Pre congress workshop on child nutrition, Annual Academic Sessions of the Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians, June2009

  18. Audit on The Management of Neonates with prolonged rupture of membranes in the Neonatal unit of Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, United Kingdom, November 2006

  19. Audit on The Long  Term Management of Thalassaemic Patients in the Paediatric Unit of Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, United Kingdom, April,2007

  20. Audit on The Cranial Ultrasound Scan Guidelines of Neonates in the Neonatal Unit of Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust, May 2008

  21. Kiridana M.G.D.V.K, Estimation of body mass index and body fat from anthropometric data; Undergraduate Research Project Presentations, September, 1993
    • Carried out a family study as an undergraduate student in the department of community medicine.
    • Carried out a family study as an undergraduate student in the department of paediatrics.
Contribution to Books and Book Chapters
  1. Chapter on “ Headaches in children” in the book “What to do in Paediatrics?” published by the Kandy Society of Medicine
  2. Chapter on “Recognition of a critically ill child and pathways leading to cardiac arrest” in the book “What to do in Paediatrics?” published by the Kandy Society of Medicine
  3. Chief editor of the book in the book “What to do in Paediatrics?” published by the Kandy Society of Medicine
  4. Contribution to the manual of “Central Province Paediatrics Emergencies and Life support course”
  5. Chapter on Childhood obesity Public health Education. Published by Kandy Society of Medicine, July, 2019
 
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