Awareness workshop on SL’s biomedical device development

As Sri Lanka grapples with the challenges brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, a fundamental issue has once again re-emerged. The pandemic has manifested how as a developing nation, Sri Lankans are at the mercy of foreign aid and wealthier nations, to provide vaccines, oxygen concentrators, COVID response equipment and High Dependency Unit equipment. Thus, the apparent need is for Sri Lanka to be more self-sufficient in terms of healthcare solutions.

In this context, the Centre for Biomedical Innovation (CeBI) of the University of Moratuwa is organising an online workshop on July 29 from 8.30 am – 12.30 pm titled “Biomedical Product Development: A Sri-Lankan Story”.

It is the 5th in a series of online workshops being held as part of the

Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference. This workshop focuses on creating awareness on the multidisciplinary nature of combining engineering, medicine and commerce, and the essential stepwise process that needs to be followed for successful biomedical device development within Sri Lanka.

The expert panel consists of Dr. Pujitha Silva, Director of the Centre for Biomedical Innovation and Senior Lecturer for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Moratuwa; Prof. Saroj Jayasinghe, Consultant Physician and Former Chair Professor of Medicine at the Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo; Dr. Travis Perera, Senior Consultant and Member of the Board of Study at the Postgraduate Institute of Management; Dr. Angelo Karunaratne, Visiting Consultant at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Tech Lead for Health and Wellness Projects at Twinery, MAS Innovations Pvt. LTD., and Product and Engineering Lead at wavetec; Dr. Nuwan Dayananda, Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Moratuwa, and Director of Premium-UOM R&D Laboratory for Biomedical Technologies; and Ajith Indikadulla, CEO at East Link Group of Companies.

Participation at the workshop is free of charge and is aimed at healthcare professionals, biomedical equipment suppliers, engineers and clinicians and biomedical engineering students in general. Visit http://mercon. mrt.ac.lk/workshops.html to register.