The Young Physicians’ Forum is a monthly academic forum for emerging physicians to deliver presentations on a diverse range of topics of interest to an audience comprising of peers and veterans in the field. This is a competition and the presentations are delivered by senior registrars who are adjudicated by an esteemed panel of judges. The winner is awarded the prestigious E M Wijerama Award for the best presentation at the Annual Academic Sessions.
2025
May
When breathing Fails: Critical battle against ARDS
Dr Udara Edirisinghe
Senior Registrar in Critical Care Medicine,
National Hospital of Sri Lanka
Leptospirosis Unmasked: What We Know, What Remains Elusive, and the Way Forward
Dr Namal Herath
Senior Registrar in Internal Medicine
Teaching Hospital Anuradhapura
April
Pulmonary Vasculitis in 2025: What every Physician should know
Dr C. K. Wickramathunga
Senior Registrar in Respiratory Medicine
National Hospital for Respiratory Diseases
Sri Lanka
Hyperlipidemia in Pregnancy, Physiological Passenger or Pathological Partner?
Dr J. A. J. Jayasinghe
Senior Registrar in General Medicine
Colombo South Teaching Hospital
March
What's in a name?; the conundrum of NAFLD, MASLD and MetLAD
Dr H. K. C. A. Kankanamge
Senior Registrar in General Medicine
National Hospital Sri Lanka
Antinuclear Antibody; Friend or Foe
Dr F. N. Nasim
Senior Registrar in Rheumatology
National Hospital Kandy
February
Thrombocytopenia - A Physicians Perspective
Dr S. V. Senanayake
Senior Registrar in Medicine
National Hospital Sri Lanka
Seeing is believing: Unraveling dementia with lewy bodies & it's challenges
Dr Nipuna Weerasinghe
Senior Registrar in Neurology
National Hospital Sri Lanka
January
