SARAJ HARINDU Athukorala
Doctor
Simei
Summary
Trusty medical officer with more than 10 years of experience in various care settings. Strong background in providing quality care to patients of wide range of ages and backgrounds. Proven track record of successfully diagnosing and treating variety of chronic and acute medical conditions.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Medical Officer General Medicine
Colombo East Base Hospital
08.2020 - 10.2023
- Daily ward round in general medical ward and update daily clinical status
- Clinical evaluation and management of patient with different medical conditions such as renal,cardiac, infectious disease and respiratory conditions etc
- Conducting ward round with specialist consultant
Management of acute medical emergencies including toxicology emergencies - Leading the cardiac arrest team during work shift
- Management of Covid-19 patients during the Covid pandemic
Locum General Practitioner
Various Private GP Clinics
01.2015 - 10.2023
- Maintained and updated patient notes, ensuring accuracy and confidentiality
- Performed clinical patient examinations within a timeframe, assessing and diagnosing conditions accurately
- Interpreted findings from investigations such as blood tests, communicating diagnosis with patient
- Prescribed and administered curative treatments and preventative measures
- Promoted self-care and general health education, offering practical advice for patients to maintain positive wellbeing
- Provided patient after-care such as counselling, prescribing medication and rehabilitation plans
- Performed minor surgery on patients such as skin suturing, callosity removal
- Aided disease prevention and treatment by advising on health, nutrition and lifestyle
- Provide contraceptive advices to families
- Referring patients for cancer screening - eg: PAP smear and mammography, endoscopic evaluation for high-risk patients
- Give immunization advices and referring patients for immunization - including babies, elders, women planning for pregnancy and travelers.
Medical Officer - Geriatric Medicine
Changi General Hospital
10.2023 - Current
- Updating daily clinical status of patients and medical management
- Conducting ward rounds with specialist registrars and Consultant Geriatrician
- Completed patient referrals to other medical specialists.
- Perform Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment of the patients including memory and cognition
- Routine update of the patients condition and get the family involvement for the patient management.
- Work collaborative with other health staff including staff nurses, physiotherapist, occupational therapists, dietician, speech therapist and etc
- Conducting weekly Multidisciplinary meetings
- Involvement of patients placement with the help of social workers for Dementia and general nursing homes
- Help to arrange social support such as transitional care facilities, interim care services, day care and day rehabilitation services and etc
- Discuss extent of care and referring patients for Advanced care planning
- Arranging palliative care services including inpatient and home hospice.
- Discussing demise patients at weekly mortality meetings
- Attend weekly clinical meetings and CPD programs
Postgraduate Diploma Trainee - Geriatric Medicine
Ministry of Health
08.2019 - 08.2020
- Had Clinical rotations in multiple hospitals for different specialties and training
- The main hospital allocated for clinical practice was National Hospital of Sri Lanka
- National Hospital is the largest tertiary care hospital in Sri Lanka
- It gets patients from all over the country and provide tertiary care
- It has 3404 bed capacity ,7000 employees,18 ICUs,17HDUs,19 surgical theatres and the only one neuro-trauma center in Sri Lanka
- Clinical Rotations in Geriatric Medicine - Medicine, Cardiology, Rheumatology, Neurology, Rehabilitation Medicine, Respiratory Medicine, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Dermatology, Psychiatry, General Surgery, Orthopedics, ENT, Genito-urinary surgery, Gynecology, Eye, Dental, Oncology, Family Medicine and Community Medicine
- Obtain a history, perform a clinical examination, order relevant investigations and make an accurate diagnosis of both physical and mental health disorders
- Identification and detection of different clinical presentation of elderly patient oppose to the younger patients
- Assessment of each and every patient using a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment And other validated tools
- Evaluate patients to assess conditions and monitor progress against the treatment goals
- Understanding the mental stressors of elderly and carer and manage mental health conditions
- Review medication records for polypharmacy and educate patient about rational use of drugs to improve medication compliance
- Developed comprehensive care plans with the help of other allied health specialties and Specialist consultant meeting the medical, biological, social and psychological needs
- Coordinated care plan in consultation with multidisciplinary team of health professionals
- Provide care and rehabilitation plans for patients
- Referring patients to other sub specialties if further evaluation is needed
- Refer patients for community-based care and palliative care
- Attended home visits for patients who are debilitated and bed ridden.
Medical Officer - Emergency Treatment Unit
Provincial General Hospital
06.2018 - 07.2019
- Carried out quick assessments by asking concise questions, and relevant examination
- Resuscitation and stabilization of patients in life threatening conditions and evaluate patients' response to treatment
- Stayed calm and lead the subordinate staff during an emergency for a better care
- Quickly evaluated patients to determine eligibility for emergency procedures and surgeries
- Arrange thrombolysis for patients with acute stroke and myocardial infarction and antivenom for snake bite
- Implemented action to alleviate symptoms of medical complications
- Arranged specialized assessments if needed
- Leading cardiac resuscitation team during the work shift.
Medical Officer - Department of Gastroenterology
Provincial General Hospital - Badulla
06.2015 - 06.2018
- Clinical assessment and management of patients admitting for inward care with gastrointestinal, biliary, pancreatic and liver diseases
- Diagnosis of conditions and implemented treatments to resolve concerns or alleviate symptoms and evaluated patients' responses to treatments
- Arranged specialized assessments to diagnose illnesses or disorders under the guidance of the specialist consultant gastroenterologist
- Evaluated patients' eligibility for procedures such as liver biopsy, gastroscopy, percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy and etc
- Perform ward procedures such as abdominal paracentesis
- Preparation of patients for procedures such as upper GI and Lower GI endoscopies
- Follow up of patients in outpatient clinics.
Residential House Officer - Clinical Hematology
Provincial General Hospital
12.2014 - 06.2015
- Diagnose conditions related to hematological disorders and implemented treatments to resolve concerns or alleviate symptoms
- Discuss patient histories and complaints with the clinical hematologist during the ward round in the day unit for comprehensive assessment
- Performed complete physical assessments and standardized tests to evaluate conditions and responses
- Evaluated patients to eligibility for procedures such as bone marrow biopsy and carried out procedures such as bone marrow biopsy and venesections
- Arrange transfusion of blood and blood products to the patients who are admitting to day unit for regular transfusions such as patients with aplastic anaemia, myelodysplastic syndrome and etc
- Arrange screening for inherited hematological disorders such as Thalassaemia and Hemophelia.
Intern Medical Officer - General Surgery
Provincial General Hospital - Badulla
06.2014 - 12.2014
- First clerking of patients admitting to casualty surgical wards
- Update daily clinical status of the patients and involved in the medical and surgical management
- Order laboratory tests and imaging scans to complete further investigations
- Attending daily ward rounds with the specialist consultant and senior house officers
- Preparing patients of emergency and elective surgeries
- Perform minor surgical procedures such as skin suturing, callosity removal, wound debridement, abscess drainage, application of POP and assisting for major surgeries
- Follow up of patients at outpatient clinics.
Intern Medical Officer - General Medicine
Provincial General Hospital - Badulla
12.2013 - 06.2014
- Interviewed patients to assess histories, investigate concerns and complete physical examinations
- Maintained and updated patient notes, ensuring accuracy and confidentiality
- Ordered laboratory tests and imaging scans to complete further investigations
- Attending ward rounds with specialty consultant and senior house officers
- Perform ward procedures such as pleural and peritoneal aspiration, lumbar puncture, arterial blood gas analysis, venesection and etc
- Leading the cardiac arrest team in the ward
- Notification of notifiable illnesses to the regional epidemiology unit
- Writing discharge notes of the patients
- Follow up of patients in routine outpatient clinics.
Education
Postgraduate Diploma - Geriatric Medicine
Postgraduate Institute of Medicine
Colombo, Sri Lanka01.2020
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery - Human Medicine
Rajarata University of Sri Lanka
Mihinthale, Sri Lanka01.2013
Skills
CPR/AED
Basic Life Support for Health Care Providers (BLS)
Initial Trauma Life Support (ITLS)
Patient Care
Surgical Skills
Chronic Disease Management
Multidisciplinary team collaboration
Certification
- Advanced Life Support - European Resuscitation Council
- Applied Mental Health in Residential Aged Care by Australian Psychological Society
- Fundamentals of Emergency Medicine workshop by Sri Lanka College of Emergency Physicians
- Early detection and prevention common disorders in elderly by Sri Lanka Association of Geriatric Medicine
- Pain Management in Elderly by Sri Lanka Association of Geriatric Medicine
- Infectious Disease Control and out brake Management by National University of Singapore
- Pandemic Management by Civil Service College Singapore
Languages
Sinhalese: First Language
English: C1
Language Tests
IELTS(Academic), Overall -7
Publications
- Prevalence of colonic polyps and colorectal carcinoma in a cohort of Sri Lankan rural patients: A single-center experience. In JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY (Vol. 33, pp. 518-518). 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA: WILEY
- Types of liver space occupying lesions (SOL) and their epidemiological associations: A single-center experience from Sri Lanka. In JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY (Vol. 33, pp. 433-433). 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA: WILEY
Timeline
Medical Officer - Geriatric Medicine
Changi General Hospital
10.2023 - Current
Medical Officer General Medicine
Colombo East Base Hospital
08.2020 - 10.2023
Postgraduate Diploma Trainee - Geriatric Medicine
Ministry of Health
08.2019 - 08.2020
Medical Officer - Emergency Treatment Unit
Provincial General Hospital
06.2018 - 07.2019
Medical Officer - Department of Gastroenterology
Provincial General Hospital - Badulla
06.2015 - 06.2018
Locum General Practitioner
Various Private GP Clinics
01.2015 - 10.2023
Residential House Officer - Clinical Hematology
Provincial General Hospital
12.2014 - 06.2015
Intern Medical Officer - General Surgery
Provincial General Hospital - Badulla
06.2014 - 12.2014
Intern Medical Officer - General Medicine
Provincial General Hospital - Badulla
12.2013 - 06.2014
- Advanced Life Support - European Resuscitation Council
- Applied Mental Health in Residential Aged Care by Australian Psychological Society
- Fundamentals of Emergency Medicine workshop by Sri Lanka College of Emergency Physicians
- Early detection and prevention common disorders in elderly by Sri Lanka Association of Geriatric Medicine
- Pain Management in Elderly by Sri Lanka Association of Geriatric Medicine
- Infectious Disease Control and out brake Management by National University of Singapore
- Pandemic Management by Civil Service College Singapore
Postgraduate Diploma - Geriatric Medicine
Postgraduate Institute of Medicine
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery - Human Medicine
Rajarata University of Sri Lanka
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