A medical professional with extensive experience over three decades as a clinician, researcher and academic in family medicine with added qualifications and experience in medical informatics in Sri Lanka, Australia and the U.K. Highly analytical and organized with writing and organizational skills in English. Expertise in primary care, family medicine, biomedical informatics, evidence- based medicine with designing and managing course work with learning management systems. International network and collaborative experience with institutions such as Australian and UK universities, Wonca and WHO.

Sri Lankan

1. Post Graduate Institute of Medicine (PGIM), University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

2. Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA)

3. Sri Lanka Medical Library

4. The College of General Practitioners of Sri Lanka

5. Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka (HISSL)

World

1. World Organization of Family Doctors (Wonca)

2. Australasian College of Health Informatics (ACHI)

1. Family Medicine
2. Primary Care Morbidity
3. Medical Informatics
4. Electronic Medical Records
5. Evidence Based Medicine
6. Overdiagnosis/Too Much Medicine
7. Bibliometrics
8. Web-based learning

Google Scholar Profile - LINK

• Pathitana T, Wang Y, Martiny F, Copp T, Kumar R , Mendis K, Tang J. Drivers and Potential Solutions to Overuse and Overdiagnosis of health care: Perspectives from China, India and Sri Lanka. BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine. Published Online First: 12 August 2022. doi: 10.1136/bmjebm-2021-111869

• Mendis, K., 2021. What is evidence-based medicine? Ceylon Medical Journal, 66(3), pp.154–156. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/cmj.v66i3.9495

• Mendis K., De Silva A.H.W., Anthony A., Randenikumara S., Withana S., Arulanandem K., Atapattu C., Halambarachchige P., Kotugodella D., Muthugala R., Perera A., Ratnam G., Senaratne L., Seneviratne S., Silva S., Weerasinghe T., Wickramasinghe R. Guiding the frontlines to face the pandemic: The story of preparing guidelines for Sri Lankan primary care for COVID-19. In: Senaratne, R., Amaratunga, D., Mendis, S. & Athukorala, P (eds), COVID 19: Impact, Mitigation, Opportunities and Building Resilience “From Adversity to Serendipity”, Perspectives of global relevance based on research, experience and successes in combating COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, Vol. 1. National Science Foundation Sri Lanka; 2021. p. 162-170

• Mendis K, Wickramasinghe R, Senaratne L, Halambarachchige P, Anthony A, Muthugala R, Silva S, De Silva A.H.W, Perera A, Atapattu C, Kotugodella D, Randenikumara S, Withana S, Arulanandem K, Ratnam G, Seneveratne S, Weerasinghe T. Ministry of Health & Primary Care physicians of Sri Lanka. Covid-19 (New Coronavirus ) in Sri Lanka: Interim Guidelines for Sri Lankan Primary Care Physicians V 3.1 Guideline. 2020 April 23. Available from https://hpb.health.gov.lk/media/pdf/interim-guidelines- primary-care.pdf (Accessed 2021-06-20).

• Wynn Y, Prasad U, Williams S, Karunarathna S, Withana S, Perera S, Mendis K, Ravindran A. Improving the Detection of Depressive Disorder in Sri Lanka. International Journal of Clinical Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2020, 8, 25-34

• Pathirana T, Wan Yu M, Martiny F, Rupasinghe M, Kottahachchi D, Wijewickrama A, Copp T, Kumar R, Mendis K. Drivers and potential solutions for overdiagnosis: perspectives from the low and middle income countries. BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine Dec 2019, 24 (Suppl 2) A6
  A7; DOI: 10.1136/bmjebm-2019-POD.13

• Perera DP, Withana SS, Mendis K, Kasunjith DVT, Jayathilaka WTS, Wickramasuriya S. Evaluation of the undergraduate family medicine programme of Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya: quantitative and qualitative student feedback. BMC Med Educ. 2019 Dec 2;19(1):444. doi: 10.1186/s12909-019-1882-6.

• Mendis K, Weerasooriya CT, Withana S, Liyanage P, Silva AW, Weerabaddana C, Wickramasinghe R. Cloud-Based Open Source Primary Care Electronic Patient Record System for Sri Lankan Citizens. 2019 National Information Technology Conference (NITC), 2019, pp. 41-46, doi: 10.1109/NITC48475.2019.9114518 Available from: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9114518/metrics#metrics

• Olupeliyawa AM, Venkateswaran S, Wai N, Mendis K, Flynn E, Hu W. Transferability of faculty development resources. The Clinical Teacher 2019; 16: 1–6

• Bailey J, Davies C, McCrossin T, Kiernan M, Skinner R, Steinbeck K, Mendis K. Fit4YAMs: Structuring a Lifestyle Intervention for Rural Overweight and Obese Young Adult Males Using Participatory Design. J Adolesc Health. 2018 Mar;62(3S):S65-S71. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2017.06.019.

• Mendis K, De Silva AHW, Perera DP, Withana SS, Premasiri BHS, Jayakody S. Morbidity pattern and process of care at a teaching hospital outpatient department in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Medical Association 130th Anniversary Medical Congress. 2017. p. 35.

• Withana SS, Perera DP, De Silva AHW, Mendis K, Premasiri BHS, Jayakody S. Patient centred view of primary care morbidity at a teaching hospital in Sri Lanka. 43rd Annual Academic Sessions of College of General Practitioners of Sri Lanka. 2017. p. 38.

• Wong KC, Brown AM, Luscombe GM, Wong SJ, Mendis K. Antibiotic use for Vibrio infections: important insights from surveillance data. BMC Infectious Diseases. 2015 Jun 11; 15:226.

• Mendis K, Greenhill J, Walker J, Bailey J, Croft A, Doyle Z, McCrossin T, Stevens W. 2014 Rural Clinical School Training and Support Program Snapshot survey. Rural Remote Health. 2015 OctDec;15(4):3276.

• Bailey JK, Mendis K, Dutton T, Stevens W, McCrossin T. Rural Remote Health. A decade of Rural Clinical School research: a PubMed review. Rural Remote Health. 2015 Oct-Dec;15(4):3353.

• Mendis K, Bailey J, McLean R. Tracking Australian health and medical research expenditure with a PubMed bibliometric method. Aust N Z J Public Health. 2015 Jun;39(3):227-31.

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