Memberships in Professional Organizations

• The Physiological Society of Sri Lanka

• Neurophysiology

Research Interests

• Neurophysiology

ORCID ID and Link

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6313-4039

Google Scholar Link

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yeHs-S8AAAAJ&hl=en

Research Gate Link

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chandana-Hewage-3

Publications and Scientific Communications

Full Paper Presentations

• D. C. Hewage, K. Wijewardene, G. Lindmark, G. Bohlin. Deficit in inhibitory control is associated with higher behavioural problems among children of Sri Lankan migrant workers
• Kariyawasam PN, Pathirana KD, Hewage DC, “Factors associated with health related quality of life of patients with stroke in Sri Lankan context”, BMC Health and quality of life outcomes, 2020 (18);129, Available at; https://doi.org/10.1186/s12955-020-01388-y
• Kariyawasam PN, Pathirana KD, Hewage DC, Dissanayake RDA. “Cultural Adaptation and Preliminary Validation of the Proxy-Rated Sinhala Version of the Stroke and Aphasia Quality of Life Generic Scale–39”. Journal of Central Nervous System Disease. 2020 May;12:1179573520924953. Available at; https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1179573520924953
• Gamage MWK, Hewage DC and Pathirana KD (2018), Effect of cognitive and executive functions on perception of quality of life of cognitively normal elderly people dwelling in residential aged care facilities in Sri Lanka, BMC Geriatrics, 18:256: 1186/s12877-018-0937-6.
• Gamage MWK, Hewage DC and Pathirana KD (2018), Associated Factors for Cognition of Physically Independent Elderly People Living in Residential Care Facilities for the Aged in Sri Lanka, BMC Psychiatry, (Potentially Acceptable)

Oral Communications with Published Abstracts

• Gamage MWK, Hewage DC and Pathirana KD (2016), Quality of life and associated factors among physically independent institutionalized elderly people in Galle District, Sri Lanka, Proceedings of 5^th Biennial Conference of South Asian Association of Physiologists, Nepal, pp. 139, 10-12 November, 2017.
• Gamage MWK, Hewage DC and Pathirana KD (2016), Association between cognition, quality of life and physical activity in a sample of physically independent institutionalized elderly people in Galle District, Sri Lanka, Proceedings of International Research Conference, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Ratmalana, Sri Lanka, pp. 226, 08-09 Sep, 2016.
• Gamage MWK, Hewage DC and Pathirana KD (2016), The level of cognition is significantly associated with the quality of life in a sample of physically independent institutionalized elderly people in Galle District, Sri Lanka, Proceedings of 2^nd International Conference on Public Health, Sri Lanka, pp. 10, 28-29 July 2016.
• Gamage MWK, Hewage DC and Pathirana KD (2016), Working memory and associated factors among physically independent elderly people living in elderly care institutions in Galle District, Sri Lanka, Proceedings of Annual scientific sessions of the physiological society, Sri Lanka, pp. 35, 25-26 November, 2016.
• Gamage MWK, Hewage DC and Pathirana KD (2017), Inhibitory control and associated factors among physically independent elderly people living in elderly care institutions in Galle District, Proceedings of Scientific sessions of Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura in collaboration with Sri Jayewardenepura General Hospital, Sri Lanka, pp. 49, 24-25 May 2017.
• Gamage MWK, Hewage DC and Pathirana KD (2017), Association between dual task performance and Quality of life of elderly people living in elderly care institutions in Galle District, Proceedings of Peradeniya University International research sessions, Sri Lanka, pp. 317, 24 Novermber 2017.
• Gamage MWK, Hewage DC and Pathirana KD (2018), Association between engagement in leisure activities and cognition among elderly people living in elderly care institutions in Southern Province, 4^th Scientific Sessions of Sri Lanka Association of Geriatric Medicine, pp. 32, 25^th – 27^th October 2018.
• Gamage MWK, Hewage DC and Pathirana KD (2018), Association between social activity participation and cognition of elderly people in elderly care institutions in Southern Province, Sri Lanka, Scientific Sessions, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ruhuna (Accepted for an oral presentation).

Poster Communications with Published Abstracts

• Gamage MWK, Hewage DC and Pathirana KD (2016), Association between executive functions, physical activity and quality of life among physically independent elderly people living in elderly care institutions in Galle District, Sri Lanka, Proceedings of 5^th Biennial Conference of South Asian Association of Physiologists, Nepal, pp. 207, 10-12 November, 2017.
• Gamage MWK, Hewage DC and Pathirana KD (2016), Association between executive functions, quality of life and physical activity in a sample of community dwelling elderly people in Galle Municipality area, Proceedings of Scientific sessions, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura in collaboration with Sri Jayewardenepura General Hospital, Sri Lanka, pp 10, 7-8 April, 2016.   .
• Gamage MWK, Hewage DC and Pathirana KD (2017), “Association of age, gender and educational status with working memory and inhibitory control of elderly people living in elderly care institutions in Galle District, Proceedings of 11^th Annual academic sessions of the association of Sri Lankan neurologists, Sri Lanka, pp. 37-38, 17-19 ovember, 2017.
• Gamage MWK, Hewage DC and Pathirana KD (2018), Factors associated with cognition among physically independent institutionalized elderly people in Southern Province, Proceedings of International Conference of Health Sciences, pp. 84, 7-9 October 2018.
• Kariyawasam PN, Pathirana KD and Hewage DC (2016), Validation of the Sinhala version of Mississippi Aphasia Screening Test (MAST), Proceedings of 5^th Biennial Conference of South Asian Association of Physiologists, Nepal, pp. 138, 10-12 November, 2017. (Best oral presentation)
• Kariyawasam PN, Pathirana KD, Hewage DC and Dissanayake RDA (2017), Validation of Sinhala version of Stroke Aphasia Quality of Life -39 generic (SAQOL-39g) scale, Proceedings of academic sessions (IPURSE), University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, November, 2017
• Kariyawasam PN, Pathirana KD and Hewage DC (2018), Comparison of quality of life of patients with aphasia and without aphasia following stroke attending Teaching Hospital, Karapitiya, Proceedings of annual academic sessions, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka, March 2018.
• Kariyawasam PN, Pathirana KD and Hewage DC (2018), Factors associated with HRQOL of patients with stroke, Proceedings of Faculty of Medicine Annual Sessions, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka,15 November 2018.
• Kariyawasam PN, Pathirana KD and Hewage DC (2017), Quality of life of patients with stroke attending a Teaching Hospital in Southern Sri Lanka, proceedings of annual academic sessions of Association of Sri Lankan Neurologists, Sri Lanka, 21 November 2017.
• Kariyawasam PN, Pathirana KD and Hewage DC (2018), Level of dependence on activities of daily living of patients with stroke, proceedings of annual academic sessions of Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Sri Lanka, 8 November 2018.
• Poster presentation at 6^th congress of the Federation of Asian and Oceanian physiological Societies (FAOPS),15-18^th Oct, 2006 at Seoul –Korea
• D. C. Hewage, K. Wijewardene, G. Lindmark, G. Bohlin. Do children left behind by Sri Lankan’s mothers working overseas have poor executive function? (Oral presentation at the 120^th annual sessions of Sri Lanka Medical Association 21-24^th March 2007
• D. C. Hewage, K. Wijewardene, G. Lindmark, G. Bohlin. Executive Functions in children of migrant workers – A preliminary results, Poster presentation at the 12^th Asia –Pacific Congress of Pediatrics 12-15^th March 2007.
• Hewage, C., Bohlin, G., Wijewardena, K. and Lindmark, G. (2011). Executive functions and child problem behaviors are sensitive to family disruption: a study of children of mothers working overseas. Dev Sci, 14, 18-25
• The effect of school environment and peer relationship on executive functions in a sample of adolescents a PRELIMINARY STUDY K.A.T. Nayanapriya, P.T.M.A.  Nanayakkara*, M.I.S.  Silva*, B.C.  Guruge’, Chandana Hewage Department of physiology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda National Hospital of Sri Lanka. International Conference on Multidisciplinary Approaches.2015 OMA PROCEEDING 11^th – 12^th September 2015 Faculty of Graduate Studies University of Sri Jayewardenepura
• The effect of home environment on inhibitory control among group of adolescents preliminary results, Pinnaduwa C. Dr, Perera KASA1, Guruge Bc2, Hewage DC1Department of physiology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, university of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka, 2 National Hospital of Sri Lanka
  PSSL The Physiological Society of Sri Lanka Annual Scientific Sessions 2015 Programme and Abstracts 27^th & 28^th November 2015 Colombo, Sri Lanka
• 3^rd International CoSference on Multidisciplinary approaches 2016 (12-14 October 2016) Faculty of Graduate studies, University of Sri Jayewardenepura
• POOR INHIBITORY CONTROL IS ASSOCIATED WITH BEING OVERWEIGHT OBESE IN ADOLESCENTS Dilka M.K.I i, Umali U.L.D.A. 1*, Hansini H.P.Y., Perera Y.K.1, Guruge B.C and Hewage D.C.  Department of physiology, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka 2 National Hospital, Sri Lanka       
• ASSOCIATION BETWEEN WORKING MEMORY SPAN MASS INDEX AND GENDER AMONG ADOLESCENTS IN MAHARAGAMA EDUCATIONAL DIVISION Umali U LD.A.’, Dilka M.K.I.la, Hansini H.P.Y.l, Perera Y.K.1, Guruge B.C.? and Hewage D.C.  Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka 2National Hospital of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
• Presented and published the abstract at Kotelawala International Research Symposium (2016), titled “Association between cognition, quality of life and physical activity in a sample of physically independent institutionalized elderly people in Galle District, Sri Lanka”, (Gamage MWK, Hewage DC and Pathirana KD).
• Presented and published the abstract at Scientific sessions 2016 of Faculty of Medical Sciences, USJP in collaboration with Sri Jayewardenepura General Hospital (2016), titled “Association between executive functions, quality of life and physical activity in a sample of community dwelling elderly people in Galle Municipality area”, (Gamage MWK, Hewage DC and Pathirana KD).
• Presented and published the abstract at 2^nd International Conference on Public Health (2016), titled “The level of cognition is significantly associated with the quality of life in a sample of physically independent institutionalized elderly people in Galle District, Sri Lanka”, (Gamage MWK, Hewage DC and Pathirana KD)”.
• Presented and published the abstract at 5^th Biennial Conference of South Asian Association of Physiologists (2016), titled “Quality of life and associated factors among physically independent institutionalized elderly people in Galle District, Sri Lanka”, (Gamage MWK, Hewage DC and Pathirana KD)” held in Nepal.
• Presented and published the abstract at 5^th Biennial Conference of South Asian Association of Physiologists (2016), titled “Association between executive functions, physical activity and quality of life among physically independent elderly people living in elderly care institutions in Galle District, Sri Lanka”, (Gamage MWK, Hewage DC and Pathirana KD)” held in Nepal.
• Presented and published the abstract at Annual scientific sessions of the physiological society of Sri Lanka (2016), titled “Working memory and associated factors among physically independent elderly people living in elderly care institutions in Galle District, Sri Lanka”, (Gamage MWK, Hewage DC and Pathirana KD)
• Presented and published the abstract at Scientific sessions 2017 of Faculty of Medical Sciences, USJP in collaboration with Sri Jayewardenepura General Hospital, titled “Inhibitory control and associated factors among physically independent elderly people living in elderly care institutions in Galle District”, (Gamage MWK, Hewage DC and Pathirana KD).
• Presented and published the abstract at Peradeniya University International research sessions 2017 titled “Association between dual task performance and Quality of life of elderly people living in elderly care institutions in Galle District”, (Gamage MWK, Hewage DC and Pathirana KD).
• Presented and published the abstract at 11^th Annual academic sessions of the association of Sri Lankan neurologists 2017 titled “Association of age, gender and educational status with working memory and inhibitory control of elderly people living in elderly care institutions in Galle District”, (Gamage MWK, Hewage DC and Pathirana KD).
• Karunathilaka RDN, Wimalasekera SW, Hewage DC & Amarasekara AATD. Body mass index and cognitive functions among young adults in two selected MOH areas in Colombo District, Sri Lanka. International Conference of Multidisciplinary Approach (iCMA), Faculty of Graduates Studies, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, 21 September, 2017
• Karunathilaka RDN, Hewage DC, Wimalasekera SW & Amarasekara AATD. Anthropometric parameters and performances in working memory tasks in a sample of young adults in Colombo District, Sri Lanka. Annual Scientific Session, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, 24 May, 2017.
• Karunathilaka RDN, Hewage DC, Wimalasekera SW & Amarasekara AATD. Body mass index, waist to hip ratio and inhibitory control in a sample of young adults in Colombo District, Sri Lanka. The Physiological Society of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka, 13 Nov, 2016.
• Karunathilaka RDN, Hewage DC, Wimalasekera SW & Amarasekara AATD. Cognitive functions and body mass index: Is there a relationship? – Preliminary study among a sample of periurban young adults in Colombo District, Sri Lanka. International Research Conference, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Ratmalana, Sri Lanka; 08-09 Sep, 2016.
• Gamage MWK, Hewage C, Pathirana KD. Effect of cognitive and executive functions on perception of quality of life of cognitively normal elderly people dwelling in residential aged care facilities in Sri Lanka. BMC Geriatr. 2018 Oct 24;18(1):256. doi: 10.1186/s12877-018-0937-6.
• IS OBESITY ASSOCIATED WITH POOR PERFORMANCES IN WORKING MEMORYAMONGST YOUNG ADULTS? RESULTS FROM SRI LANKA.” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH Nimantha Karunathilaka, Chandana Hewage, Savithri Wimalasekera, Thamara Amarasekaravolume-7 | Issue-11 | November-2018
• Nimantha Karunathilaka, Chandana Hewage, Savithri Wimalasekera, Thamara Amarasekara Does inhibitory dysfunction contribute to poor emotional aspect of eating behaviours in obesity? A study among a sample of young adults in Colombo District, Sri Lanka. Ceylon Journal of Medical Science 30 Aug 2018,55 (1):12-20

Other Faculties of University of Sri Jayewardenepura

• Faculty of Allied Health science
  Faculty of Applied Sciences

Other Universities

• University of Sabaragamuwa
• Kothalawala Defense University