Professor

Professor

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 Pathmajeewa Ganepola MRCP

Membership of the Royal College of Physicians

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, MD

Doctor of Medicine

Doctor of Medicine is a doctoral degree for physicians. The degree is granted by medical schools...

 is a Sri Lankan born Professor attached to Columbia University

Columbia University

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 New York City, USA.

He is also the Medical Director of The Center for Cancer Research and Genomic Medicine at The Valley Hospital USA.

In 2008, he became the first ever Physician to be officially invited to address the Annual Global Forum for Economic and Social issues which was held at Performance Theatre New Delhi in India.

He was educated at Nalanda College Colombo.