RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS   Dr. Thushara Matthias MBBS, MD (Col), FRCP (Lond) Senior Lecturer Grade II and Consultant Physician Department of Medicine Telephone - Office : +94 11 2758000 Ext: 4301      E-mail : thushara.matthias@gmail.com   RESEARCH INTERESTS Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Non Communicable Diseases Dyslipidaemia     AWARDS AND GOLD MEDALS Gold medals at the final MBBS (2009) Clinical Medicine, Pediatrics, Gynaecology and Obstetrics The best performance at the MBBS final year (2009)- Professor MTM Jiffry Gold medal Classes Final MBBS examination (Sep 2009) - First Class Third MBBS examination (January 2008) - First Class Second MBBS examination (June 2005) - Second Class (Upper) Distinctions at MBBS (09 Distinctions) Medicine, Paediatrics, Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Pharmacology, Pathology, Community medicine, Microbiology, Forensic Medicine, Physiology Professor Senaka Bibile Scholarship in Pharmacology (2008): Awarded by the Department of Pharmacology together with The State Pharmaceutical Corporation of Sri Lanka and the State Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Corporation. Winner of E M Wijerama Award for the best presentation at the Young Physicians' Forum for the year 2016