Prof Sanath Lamabadusuriya. Guest lecture at RCPCH UK. 2022

Prof Sanath Lamabadusuriya

Guest lecture at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Annual sessions in Liverpool. 2022.

Sanath Lamabadusuriya is in the UK at the moment. The main reason for his visit was to deliver a Guest Lecture last Wednesday the 29th of June, at the annual sessions of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, held in Liverpool.

I have included a YouTube link and embedded video of the talk,

While he was here, another Paediatrician in the UK, Dr Ruwan De Soysa, and his wife Lalani, invited him to stay with them for a few days and held a party in his honour at their residence near Chester last Sunday. There were about 30 guests and Ruwan conducted a Q&A with Sanath on his life and many noteworthy achievements. Guests were treated to a tasty meal and live music and also offered Covid, unintentionally of course, by a guest who unknown to her was harbouring the virus. I was one of the chosen ones

and fortunately, it wasn’t too bad and I am recovering well.

Ruwan treated Sanath with a tour of the Chester area known for its historic attractions. The photo shows Ruwan and Sanath enjoying an ice cream cone on a beautiful sunny day.

I believe that Sanath will be returning to Sri Lanka on the 8th of July 

Mahendra "Speedy"  Gonsalkorale

PATAS-SPEEDY ZOOM

Rajan Ratnesar and I arranged two zoom sessions so far. The pandemic has caused an explosion in on-line conferencing, chiefly using the zoom application. It has proved to be an effective and enjoyable way of keeping in touch and we intend repeating it at intervals and we hope even more will join.

Not all of us are techno-savy but mastering zoom is not a big deal. For those experiencing difficulty, try and get assistance from a grand kid! (Assuming you got one of course).

It is not easy to find a time suitable for all batch mates spread all over the globe. In our very first one, poor Rohini Ana had to wake up at 4.00 am! We spared her the agony in our last meeting and it is quite possible that we may have to resort to zoom type 1 and type 2, with type 1 tailored for the UK, USA and SL and type 2 for UK, SL, NZ and Australia.

It takes a bit of familiarisation to keep the meeting under control as the symphony of a few voices becomes a cacophony when the whole group breaks joins. Rajan is getting quite good at it and our last meeting was a considerable improvement on the first one.

Many “saw” each other after the lapse of several years and we all politely remarked “you haven’t changed a bit!”, as usual.

I keep saying it but it is true – our batch is very special.

Greetings to all. You will have to identify the actors and actresses in the screenshots!

 

Speedy