Dr. Bonaventure Jayasiri Crispus Perera
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Dr. Bonaventure Jayasiri Crispus Perera

Consultant Paediatrician
Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children, Sri Lanka

Highest Degree
PostDoc Fellow in Paediatrics from Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, United Kingdom

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Biography

Dr. B.J.C.Perera qualified with MBBS(Cey) 2nd Class Honours in 1970 and obtained DCH(Cey), DCH(Eng), MRCP(UK), MD(Paediatrics), FRCP(Edin), FRCP(Lond), FRCPCH(UK), FSLCPaed, FCCP and FCGP(SL). He had his overseas training in the United Kingdom and headed a paediatric unit at The Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children, Sri Lanka. He retired from Government Service in 2007 and is presently in Consultative Practice in the Private Sector. He was the first President of the Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians, Founder President of the Respiratory Disease Study Group of Sri Lanka, Founder President of the Childhood Respiratory Study Circle of Sri Lanka, National Consultant, Programme for control of Acute Respiratory Infections of the Ministry of Health, Chairman Board of Study in Paediatrics of The Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, Founder Member of The Board of Study in Sports Medicine of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine and Member of the Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) of the Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM). He is presently Joint Editor of The Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health, Joint Editor of The Proceedings of the Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians Annual Scientific Congress, Editor-in-Chief of Sri Lanka Journal of Bio-Medical Informatics, Member - International Advisory Board of Current Paediatrics, Reviewer - Sri Lanka Journal of Medicine, Member - International Review Board, Archives of Disease in Childhood and Member International Reviewers Panel of Medical Science Monitor. His research interests are childhood asthma, respiratory infections, breast-feeding and paediatric HIV disease. He has participated in Scientific Congresses of many countries and has delivered many guest lectures here and abroad. He has delivered seven orations, over 70 oral platform presentations and is the author of over 80 scientific publications. He has been an Editor, Chapter Author or Joint Author of seven books. He has won several prizes for the best paper of the congress and he was conferred the Research Bonus Award of the President of Sri Lanka in 1999. He was awarded the Outstanding Paediatrician of Asia Award by the Asia Pacific Paediatric Association in 2007 and the National Research Council of Sri Lanka Merit Award for Scientific Research in 2012 . He has been an examiner for the undergraduates of the Universities of Colombo and Peradeniya, postgraduates of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine of the University of Colombo and external examiner for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan. Currently he is the Immediate Past President of the Sri Lanka Medical Association, the 126 year old apex medical academic institution of Sri Lanka. He is a well known tennis player and cricketer in Sri Lanka.

Area of Interest:

Biomedical Sciences
100%
Childhood Asthma
62%
Infection Biology
90%
Breast Feeding
75%
Sports Medicine
55%

Research Publications in Numbers

Books
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Chapters
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Articles
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Abstracts
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Selected Publications

  1. Perera, B.J.C., 2017. Scientific editors: The roles, responsibilities and essential core competencies. Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 46: 305-306.
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  2. Perera, B.J.C., 2017. Data sharing: Some points of view for scrutiny. Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 46: 105-107.
  3. Rajindrajith, S., N.M. Devanarayana, B.J.C. Perera and M.A. Benninga, 2016. Childhood constipation as an emerging public health problem. World J. Gastroenterol., 22: 6864-6875.
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  4. Perera, B.J.C., 2016. Some turmoil in the editorial scenarios in medical journals. Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 45: 61-62.
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  5. Perera, B.J.C., 2016. Plagiarism: A blight and a pestilence for medical journals. Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 45: 239-240.
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  6. Perera, B.J.C., 2015. Some perspectives on paediatric research. Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 45: 183-185.
  7. Perera, B.J.C., 2015. Measles immunisation in Sri Lanka: Sanity prevails, at long last, but better late than never. Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 44: 73-74.
  8. Nimal, L.G. and B.J.C. Perera, 2015. A look at the last five years of the Sri Lanka journal of child health. Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 44: 1-2.
  9. Perera, B.J.C., 2014. Rotavirus vaccines and intussusception: A little alarm bell perhaps? Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 43: 1-2.
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  10. Perera, B.J.C., 2014. Medicine in a changing world. Then……, and now. Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 43: 119-120.
  11. Perera, B.J.C., 2013. Looking back, at a dazzling star. Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 42: 183-188.
  12. Rajindrajith, S., N.M. Devanarayana and B.J.C. Perera, 2012. Rumination syndrome in children and adolescents: A school survey assessing prevalence and symptomatology, BMC gastroenterology, 12: 163-168.
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  13. Perera, B.J.C., 2012. Some thoughts on the revised Sri Lankan expanded programme of immunisation. Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 41: 53-55.
  14. Perera, B.J.C., 2012. Contamination of formula milk. Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 41: 154-156.
  15. Perera, M.J.S., P. Abeykoon, A. Pathmeswaran, J. Jayatissa and B.J.C. Perera, 2011. Psycho-social connotations in people afflicted and affected by HIV/AIDS: A preliminary report, Ceylon Med. J., 56: 54-54.
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  16. Perera, B.J.C., 2011. The Sri Lankan personal genome. Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 40: 147-148.
  17. Perera, B.J.C., 2011. Bacterial immunostimulants in recurrent paediatric respiratory infections. Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 40: 43-44.
  18. Perera, B.J.C., 2010. Some perceptions on research integrity. Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 39: 124-125.
  19. Sukumar, S.S.V., P.M.G. Punchihewa and B.J.C. Perera, 2009. Familial hyperoxaluria with nephrocalcinosis. Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 38: 141-142.
  20. Perera, B.J.C., 2009. Visibility of The Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health in the global electronic information circuit, Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 38: 48-48.
  21. Perera, B.J.C., 2009. The Pandora's Jar of problem vaccines and sub-standard drugs in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 38: 113-114.
  22. Perera, B.J.C., 2009. Peripheral markers of bacterial sepsis. Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 39: 37-38.
  23. Morawakage, R.L., B.J.C. Perera, P. Dias and S.K. Wijewardena, 2009. Hyperhemolysis in a patient with β-thalassaemia major. Asian J. Trans. Med., 3: 26-27.
  24. Perera, B.J.C., 2008. MMR vaccine and autism: The canard is finally buried. Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 37: 107-108.
  25. Perera, B.J.C., 2008. Generic prescribing for children. Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 37: 36-37.
  26. Perera, B.J.C., 2008. MMR and autism: The canard is finally buried, Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 37: 107-108.
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  27. Perera, B.J.C., 2007. The current craze: Web 2.0 tools. Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 36: 39-42.
  28. Perera, B.J.C., 2007. Fake and counterfeit drugs: An emerging scourge or an established blight? Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 36: 125-126.
  29. Perera, B.J.C., 2007. Fake and counterfeit drugs: An emerging scourge or an established blight. Bull. Asian Pacific Pediatric Assoc., 50: 3-4.
  30. Perera, B.J.C., 2007. Fake and counterfeit drugs: An emerging scourge or an established blight, Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 36: 125-126.
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  31. Perera, B.J.C., 2006. Too much of a good thing, blow me! Is it oxygen? Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 35: 108-110.
  32. Perera, B.J.C., 2006. Antibacterial agents for diarrhoeal diseases of childhood: Are we doing it right? Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 35: 1-2.
  33. Perera, B.J.C., 2006. Antibacterial agents for infective diarrhoeal diseases of childhood are we doing it right, Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 35: 1-2.
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  34. Kekulawala, K.R., B.J.C. Perera, J. Senevirathna and C.S. Perera, 2006. Disseminated tuberculosis following BCG vaccination, Ceylon Med. J., 51: 72-73.
  35. Samaranayake, S.W. and B.J.C.Perera, 2005. A survey of the prescribing patterns of private primary care doctors in Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan Family Physician, 26: 29-30.
  36. Perera, B.J.C., B.K.N.R. Rodrigo, T.U.N. de Silva and I.R. Ragunathan, 2005. A case of trichobezoar, Ceylon Med. J., 50: 168-169.
  37. Perera, B.J.C., 2005. Successful withdrawal of inhaled steroids in childhood asthma, Respirology, 10: 385-388.
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  38. Perera, B.J.C., 2005. Small is beautiful, but, NANO is incredible. Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 34: 72-74.
  39. Perera, B.J.C., 2005. Aftermath of 9.0/2004 and the tsunami, Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 34: 1-2.
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  40. Perera, B.J.C., 2004. Quirks of medical registration : A dilemma for those involved in child health, Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 33: 1-3.
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  41. Perera, B.J.C., 2004. Genetically modified food: Friend or foe? Ceylon Med. J., 49: 44-46.
  42. Perera, B.J.C., 2004. Dengue and mosquitoes : The intertwined twin plagues of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 33: 63-63.
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  43. Fernando, M.A.M., P.H.R.S. Senathilake and B.J.C. Perera, 2004. Body mass index, allergic rhinitis and asthma in children. Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 33: 102-105.
  44. Perera, B.J.C., 2003. The order changeth : A tribute to a superlative editor, Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 32: 1-3.
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  45. Perera, B.J.C., 2003. For the discerning searcher, Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 32: 87-88.
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  46. Perera, B.J.C., 2003. Dilemma of the early childhood wheezer. Sri Lanka Prescriber, 11: 1-3.
  47. Karunanayake, M.C.G. and B.J.C. Perera, 2003. Ohtahara syndrome. Ceylon Med. J., 48: 89-90.
  48. Samarasinghe, S., B.J.C. Perera and B.G.N. Ratnasena, 2002. First two cases of gnathostomiasis in Sri Lanka. Ceylon Med. J., 47: 96-97.
  49. Perera, B.J.C., 2002. Reports of AIDS from the lady ridgeway hospital for children. Ceylon Med. J., 47: 95-96.
  50. Perera, B.J.C., 2002. Paediatric nurses : A boon to our child care services, Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 31: 73-74.
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  51. Perera, B.J.C., 2002. Labelling of dispensed drugs, Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 31: 1-2.
  52. Lucas, G.N., D.H. Karunatilaka, E.A.N. Fonseka, D.D.S. De Silva and B.J.C. Perera, 2002. Intravenous fluid therapy in dengue haemorrhagic fever-Sri Lanka experience. Dengue Bull., 26: 140-143.
  53. Lucas, G.N., B.J.C. Perera, E.A.N. Fonseka, D.D.S. De Silva, M. Fernandopulle, D.H. Karunatilaka and I. Weerasinghe, 2002. Experience with the oral iron chelator deferiprone in transfusion-dependent children. Ceylon Med. J., 47: 119-121.
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  54. Perera, B.J.C., 2001. Electronic information superhighway: The Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health joins the on line cohort, Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 30: 53-54.
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  55. Perera, B.J.C., 2000. Inhaled steroids for childhood wheezing - A rational picture, Sri Lanka J. Child Health, 29: 37-38.
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  56. Lucas, G. N., B.J.C. Perera, E.A.N., Fonseka, D.D.S. De Silva, and M. Fernandopulle, 2000. A trial of deferiprone in transfusion dependent iron overloaded children, Ceylon Med. J., 45: 71-74.
  57. Perera, B.J.C., S. Ganesan, J. Jayarasa and S. Ranaweera, 1999. The impact of breastfeeding practices on respiratory and diarrhoeal disease in infancy: A study from Sri Lanka. J. Trop. Pediatrics, 45: 115-118.
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  58. Perera, B.J.C., P. Angunawela and P.D.R. Pathirana, 1999. Congenital hepatic fibrosis. Ceylon J. Child Health, 28: 36-37.
  59. Perera, B.J.C., 1999. Sports medicine in children and adolescents. Ceylon Med. J., 44: 1-5.
  60. Samaranayake, S.W. and B.J. Perera, 1998. Paper spacers coupled to metered dose inhalers in family practice. Ceylon Med. J., 43: 147-150.
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  61. Perera, B.J.C., 1998. Human milk: The golden elixir of life. Ceylon J. Child Health, 27: 18-20.
  62. Perera, A., S. Wickramasinghe, B.J. Perera and P. Somaratne, 1998. Reliable and easy identification of bacterial acute respiratory infections of childhood. Ceylon Med. J., 43: 200-205.
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  63. Perera, B.J.C., 1997. Use of large volume unmodified spacers by different age groups of children. Ceylon J. Child Health, 25: 27-29.
  64. Perera, B.J.C., 1996. Sri Lanka college of paediatricians: inaugural presidential address 1996 “child health care-from there, to here, to eternity. Ceylon J. Child Health, 25: 11-15.
  65. Perera, B.J.C., 1995. Management of childhood asthma. Sri Lanka Prescriber, 5: 1-4.
  66. Perera, B.J.C., 1995. Efficacy and cost effectiveness of inhaled steroids in asthma in a developing country: An epilogue. Arch. Dis. Childhood, 73: 482-482.
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  67. Perera, B.J.C., 1995. Efficacy and cost effectiveness of inhaled steroids in asthma in a developing country. Arch. Dis. Childhood, 72: 312-316.
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  68. Perera, B.J.C., 1995. Childhood acute severe asthma: The harbinger of death. Bronchus, 10: 2-5.
  69. Perera, B.J.C., 1995. Anyone for Tennis? (Part 2) Some paediatric aspects of the game. Mech. Causation Manage. Tennis Injuries Sports Med. News, 2: 2-3.
  70. Perera, B.J.C., 1994. Inhaled steroids in childhood wheezing. Respira, 1: 1-8.
  71. Perera, B.J.C., 1994. Anyone for Tennis? Some paediatric aspects of the game. Sports Med. News, 2: 3-5.
  72. Perera, B.J.C., 1993. Medication in childhood asthma: Choosing the right drug. Bronchus, 8: 2-6.
  73. Perera, B.J.C., 1991. Underdiagnosis of childhood asthma. Ceylon J. Child Health, 19: 45-47.
  74. Perera, B.J.C., 1991. Changing frontiers in childhood asthma. Ceylon J. Child Health, 20: 13-29.
  75. Ellepola, S.B., S.P. Lamabadusuriya and B.J.C. Perera, 1991. Sickle cell thalassaemia in Sri Lanka. Ceylon J. Child Health, 20: 39-41.
  76. Perera, B.J.C., 1988. A short overview of childhood diarrhoea. Drug Inform. Bull., 1: 43-44.
  77. Perera, B.J.C., 1987. Oral manifestations of systemic diseases in paediatrics. General Dental Practitioner, 5: 37-40.
  78. Perera, B.J.C., 1987. A dosage schedule for salbutamol nebulisation in acute childhood asthma. Ceylon Med. J., 32: 105-108.
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  79. Perera, B.J.C., 1987. A comparative study of nebulised salbutamol (“ventolin”) versus nebulised terbutaline (bricanyl) in acute childhood asthma. Ceylon J. Child Health, 16: 3-6.
  80. Perera, B.J.C., 1986. Nebulised salbutamol in acute childhood asthma. Ceylon Med. J., 31: 169-172.
  81. Perera, B.J.C., 1972. Christ-siemens syndrome. Ceylon J. Child Health, 7: 49-54.

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