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BDJS Fernando
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Dr BDJS (Desmond) Fernando is a Sri Lankan Family Physician (General Practitioner) Achievements He is credited with establishing Family Medicine (General Practice) as a speciality in Sri Lanka (jointly with colleagues Denis J Aloysious, GM Heennilame, MPM Cooray, BDJ Silva and Professor Leila Karunaratne). Medical training He trained as a paediatrician in Childrens Hospital Medical Centre Boston Mass USA (with Dr Charles E Janeway Jr), Beverly Hospital Beverly Mass USA (with Dr William Dorsey) and St Mary's Hospital Manchester UK (with Professor J Davis). He later trained in Family Medicine in Beverly Mass USA becoming a Member of the American Academy of Family Physicians. He subsequently attended the Department of General Practice, University of Manchester UK (with Professor David Metcalfe), University of Nottingham UK (with Dr Michael Varnum)and St Georges Hospital Medical Scool London UK (With Professor Paul Freeling) on a British Council Fellowship. He practiced as a family physician in Ratmalana for 51 years till his retirement in 2010. Although his American paediatric training went unrecognised by the British influenced medical establishment, his patients were discerning enough to recognise him as a de facto paediatrician in addition to being their family physician. Medical education He taught Family Medicine at the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine at the University of Colombo where he was a founder member of the Board of Study in Family Medicine, taking a prominent role in writing the curriculum, setting up and chairing the examination board for the Diploma in Family Medicine and MD Family Medicine programmes and subsequently with Dr J.B. Peiris extending this to centres in India,. Professional activities He was President of The College of General Practitioners of Sri Lanka for two terms, served on the Five Member Committee set up by the Ministry of Health to examine the need to set up an autonomous National Drug Control Authority and the contributed to the national guide on vaccines. He has been an innovater in introducing appropriate low cost technology to medicine in Sri Lanka and is credited with developing a phonocardiogram (with Dr PT de Silva). He has (in collaboration with Professor Devaka Fernando) developed a device for screening for diabetic neuropathy manufactured entirely with locally available components and an electronic medical record for use in primary care. 
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