Dr. Anil Abeywickrama

CEO
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Lanka Hospital
Sri Lanka

Doctor Cardiology
Biography

Dr Anil Abeywickrama Board Certified as a Specialist in Cardiothoracic Surgery in 2011. Currently Dr Abeywickrama is attached to the Lady Ridgeway Hospital for children as a Consultant Cardiothoracic surgeon. He is a surgeon with a combine practice in both adult and pediatric cardiac surgery. He was also worked as a consultant Cardiothoracic surgeon at the national hospital of Sri Lanka since 2014 to 2015. He has performed first series of Total Arterial Revascularization of Myocardium with Insitu Arterial grafts using Right Gastroepiploic Artery and bilateral Internal Mammary Arteries. He is in the processes of establishing Cardiopulmonary Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory support program in the Lady Ridgeway Hospital for children in collaboration with the Freeman Hospital Newcastle UK. His special clinical interests are in Cardiopulmonary Transplant, Donor Management, Mechanical Circulatory Support therapy,Total Arterial Revascularization of myocardium, Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI), Surgery and Interventions in Aorta and Minimal access Cardiac surgery.

Research Intrest

Adult and pediatric cardiac surgery