Damith Premarathna Email & Phone Number

I am a registered nurse at Sri Jayawardenepura General Hospital in Western Province Sri Lanka.I am a former Registered Nurse and clinical research assistant at the South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration (SACTRC) since 28th September 2018.🏥EXPERIENCE REGISTERED NURSE/CLINICAL RESEARCH ASSISTANT South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration (SACTRC)/University of Peradeniya. SACTRC is an international collaboration comprising a number of clinicians and researchers from many countries including Sri Lanka, the UK, Germany, Denmark, and Australia studying the treatment of acute pesticide self-poisoning in the developing world, and working to reduce suicide deaths and morbidity in Asia. The Collaboration has been working in Sri Lanka, with the Ministry of Health, since the mid-1980s. Its work is funded mainly by the UK’s Welcome Trust and Australia’s NHMRC.I have worked on these projects since 2018, toxicology unit with poisonous patients attached to ICU, Teaching Hospital Peradeniya🌍Comparative study of oral and intravenous antidotes for acute PCM patients. 🌍Assessment of diaphragmatic dysfunction in acute OP poisoning by ultrasonography. 🌍New polyspecific AVS- safety and dose-finding study for HNV bites. 🌍Quantifying reactive gastropathy and gut toxicity in chronic NSAID drug using a novel biomarker. 🌍Hospital presenting self-poisoning in Sri Lanka during the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time series analysis. 🌍GCIMS study. Organophosphate - Alcohol study🎓EDUCATION ✌️BSC (HONORS) IN NURSING (2014 - 2018) Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, University of Peradeniya (2.84 GPA) ✌️PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS Registered Nurse in Sri Lanka. (SLNC Number-16893)✌️Clinical training in Kurunegala Teaching Hospital and National Hospital Kandy (2014 - 2018) (Completed practice on MICU, SICU, A&E, Pediatric ICU, ICCU, CCU, Cath Lab, Operation theaters, Dialysis unit, Blood bank, Endoscopy unit, and all the Medical and Surgical units)✌️Clinical training in National Institute of Mental Health (Teaching), Colombo, Sri Lanka (2017)✌️Performed First aid course held by the National St. John Association of Sri Lanka (2015)