Dr. Neil Fernando
Senior Lecturer – Grade I – Psychiatry, Head- Psychiatry
Email: neil.fernando@kdu.ac.lk
Qualifications
Teaching Areas
Research Interests
Publications
Awards and Grants
Involvement with Other Organizations
Other
Qualifications
- MBBS
- MD (Psychiatry)
- FSLCPsy
Teaching Areas
- General Psychiatry Forensic Psychiatry
- Community Psychiatry
- Abnormal Psychology
Research Interests
- Community Psychiatry
- Forensic Psychiatry
Publications
Books
- Co – author Suicide- Psychological counselling.( Sinhala )
- Co – author Depression – Psychological counselling. ( Sinhala)
- Co – author Trauma Counselling–((Sinhala)
- Guidelines for Community Mental Health Workers
- Training manual on Psychosocial Support for HIV infected persons
Chapters and web documents
- Community Mental Health – Basic Needs Publication on Mental health.
- Health Psychology – Guidelines for Psychological counselling for Tuberculosis patients
Referred journal articles
- Validation of the Sinhala translation of Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale – Ceylon Medical Journal 2008
- Criminal Responsibility in Sri Lanka : a descriptive study of forensic psychiatric assessment in remand prisoners charged with murder and related crimes –Sri Lanka Journal of Psychiatry , vol 3
- Insanity defence and the assessment of criminal responsibility in Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka Journal of Psychiatry
Conference Papers
- WHO Conferences on Community Partnership in Mental Health Service Provision Bali –Indonesia
- WHO Conference on reducing alcohol related harm –Bali-Indonesia
- WHO Conference on Mental health Promotion – Jakarta –Indonesia
- WHO Conference on Mental health Promotion- Colombo – Sri Lanka
- WHO Conference on Life Skills Education- New Delhi – India
Graduate Supervision
- MD Community Medicine theses on life skills
- MD Psychiatry dissertation on suicide
Awards and Grants
- Fellow Of The Sri Lanka College Of Psychiatrists -2014
Involvement with Other Organizations
- Honorary Consultant on Psychosocial Rehabilitation at Mihindu Seth Medura- Sri Lanka Army
- Visiting lecturer Sri Lanka Foundation Institute
- Visiting lecturer Institute of Human Resource Advancement of University Of Colombo
- Visiting Lecturer Department of Education University of Peradeniya
- Member to the committee to make recommendations to his Excellency the President on commutation death penalty in to life sentences.
Executive and other positions on boards of international and national organizations
- Member to the committee to make recommendations to his excellency the president on commutation death penalty in to life sentences.
- Ex board member of National Authority on Tobacco and Alcohol.
- Ex board member of the Child Protection Authority
- Co- opted member of the board of study in Psychiatry –Post Graduate Institute Of Medicine ,University of Colombo
- Consultant to Basic Needs Sri Lanka in a community Mental Health Programme- New Initiative to mental Health and Development
Other
- Honorary Consultant on Psychosocial Rehabilitation at Mihindu Seth Medura- Sri Lanka Army
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