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| Thursday, 31 July 2003 |
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by Sarath Malalasekera Dr. Lakshman Lucian Weerasena was inducted as the new President of the Medico-Legal Society of Sri Lanka by Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva who was the outgoing President of the Society at a ceremony held at the Gall Face Hotel recently. Dr. Weerasena was the first general practitioner to be appointed to this prestigious position. His interest in Legal Medicine began in 1971 when he worked as the Assistant Judicial Medical Officer, Colombo (AJMO). Dr. Weerasena joined the Medico Legal Society at the request of late Dr. W.D.L. Fernando who was responsible for his interests in Legal Medicine and who made him realise that Legal Medicine was important event in the field of general practice. Widely travelled, Dr. Weerasena has presented several International Papers on topics of Interest in Forensic Medicine both at the Indo Pacific Association of Legal Medicine and Science conferences and International Association of Forensic Sciences conferences. Some of the presentations which won Dr. Weerasena International Awards were the Paper on the Importance of Forensic Medicine in general practice at the Bali Conference and Hypoglycaemia as a murder weapon based on the famous Vicarage Murder case where Fr. Mathew Peiris was the accused. Fr. Mathew Peiris killed his wife by administering her Oral Diabetic Drugs. In Tokyo, Japan Dr. Weerasena was presented with a Gold Medal by the Forensic Association of China. He was awarded the first prize for his presentation on the situation of AIDS in Sri Lanka at the KOBE INPALMS conference. Dr. Weerasena also presented a paper titled Post Disaster Strees Syndrome in respect to Cockpit Crew based on the bomb blast of the Sri Lanka Tristar flight to Male at the Dubai Forensic Medicine conference as he is also an International Aviation Medical Examiner for the FAA USA, CAA UK, Lufthanza and Oman Aviation. |
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