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Best Oral Presentation - 1st Place
R Karunadasa, N Rathnayake, S Lekamwasam.
Performance-based and self-reported physical
functions among community dwelling older adults
from a rural community in Sri Lanka.
Best Oral Presentation - 2nd Place
N Rathnayake, T Abeygunasekara, W De Zoysa, D
Palangasinghe, S Lekamwasam. Katz index of
activities of daily living in assessing functional
status of older people; reliability and validity of
Sinhala version.
postgraduate qualification and for supporting
to become the first post-graduand from Board
of Study in Allied Health Sciences, Faculty of
Allied Health Sciences, University of Ruhuna.
While she was engaging in her study, she
faced for several competitions and
conferences and achieved several awards. She Ms. R.M. Umanga Oshadhi is a student at
had the opportunity to publish two full paper Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, University
articles in peer reviewed indexed journal and of Ruhuna who follows the Pharmacy degree
five oral/poster abstract presentations. She programme. Although she studies in the
became the best oral presenter in the 1st science schemes, she has a very special
Research Symposium organized by Faculty of inclination toward art, especially literature.
Allied Health Sciences (1st RuFARS). She Poetry, drama script writing, and story writing
was able to commercialized alcohol-based are some of her talents.
clove hand rub to Panacea Medical (Pvt) Ltd
through Technical Transfer Office, University In the last year, she faced a manuscript
of Ruhuna. She won a merit award in 3MT competition, which was organized by the
competition which was organized by Sri Godage publishers. The manuscript, that she
Lankan Academy of Young Scientists submitted to the competition was selected
(SLAYS) presenting her MPhil outcomes in among the twelve best manuscripts. That lead
2021. her to publish her first short story book,
"අ සැරය සහ තව ෙක කතා"with
Researchers from Faculty of Allied Health the Godage publishers.
Sciences together with Faculty of Medicine,
University of Ruhuna won the 1st and 2nd The book "Akunuseraya saha thawath
places of the oral presentations for the ketikatha "contains seven short storiesnamely;
scientific papers presented at the Annual ය ත,අ සැරය, මහ ෙපාෙළාෙ
Academic Sessions of Sri Lankan Association , බැ ම සහ ම, ෙය පා
of Geriatric Medicine (SLAGM) held in April අ ත, ෙනාගැ ර සහ ෙබා තම.
2022 at the Galle-Face Hotel, Colombo. The All stories in this collection are different from
two papers won the 1st and 2nd places are, each other.

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