{{Short description| Sri Lankan surgeon and academic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = A. H. Sheriffdeen | image = | image_size = | caption = | occupation = Emeritus Professor of Surgery and Consultant General and vascular surgeon; chairman Action Care Trust | known_for = Co-founder of Sri Lankas First Kidney Transplant Programme; founder Vascular Surgery Speciality in Sri Lanka, voluntary worker, volunteer social worker, lobbyist and activist on disability and gender orientation rights | title = Deshamanya Professor | alma_mater = Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo }}
Deshamanya ''' Professor A. H. Sheriffdeen''' is a Sri Lankan surgeon, academic and voluntary worker.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.actlanka.org/about/people/ |title=Chairman |publisher=www.actlanka.org |accessdate=2011-08-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331082025/http://www.actlanka.org/about/people/ |archivedate=2012-03-31 }}</ref>
==Education== Sheriffdeen was educated at St Andrew's College, Nawalapitiya, St. Anthony's College, Kandy<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sackoba.org/home/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=64&Itemid=88 |title=Antonian Awards for Excellence |publisher=www.sackoba.org |accessdate=2011-08-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331082024/http://www.sackoba.org/home/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=64&Itemid=88 |archivedate=2012-03-31 }}</ref> and Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo qualifying Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/114il124.html|title= INSPIRING LIVESIssues Med Ethics.2003 Oct-Dec; 11(4)|publisher=www.issuesinmedicalethics.org|date= |accessdate=2011-08-25}}</ref> He trained in the UK becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.
==Professional career== Sheriffdeen was Professor of Surgery at Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo with contemporaries Priyani Soysa, Ravindra fernando and Rezvi Sheriff.
Sheriffdeen is best known for introducing Vascular Surgery and also for establishing Transplant Surgery in Sri Lanka in partnership with Professor Rezvi Sheriff.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nation.lk/2006/06/04/eyefea12.htm|title= Obstacles overcome Renowned surgeon Professor A.H. Sheriffdeen has been an integral part of the kidney transplant programme since its inception.... |publisher=www.nation.lk|date= |accessdate=2011-08-25}}</ref> He together with J.B. Peiris and others described a new clinical entity Transient emboligenic aortoarteritis.<ref>Arch Neurol. 1978 Jul; 35 (7):416-22 Transient emboligenic aortoarteritis. Noteworthy new entity in young stroke patients. H R Wickremasinghe, J B Peiris, P N Thenabadu, A H Sheriffdeen</ref> He has been chairman of the Ministry of Health Trauma protocols at the Trauma Secretariat,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.traumaseclanka.gov.lk/contacts.htm/index.html |title=Chairman Clinical protocols |publisher=www.actlanka.org |date= |accessdate=2011-08-25 }}{{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Board of Study in Surgery at Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, President Sri Lanka Medical Association and President The College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka. He has authored biographies of Sri Lankan Surgeons.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailynews.lk/2004/06/25/fea06.html |title=Fitting tribute to an eminent surgeon, Reflections on the life of Dr. Noel Bartholomeusz Editors: Nirmali Hettiarachchi and A. H. Sheriffdeen pp 124, illustrated |publisher=www.dailynews.lk |accessdate=2011-08-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021062331/http://www.dailynews.lk/2004/06/25/fea06.html |archivedate=2012-10-21 }}</ref>
==Voluntary service== Sheriffdeen has provided leadership and expertise to many voluntary services including ACT Lanka which he is Chairman and is a leading activist in HIV AIDS at National <ref>{{cite web|url=http://aidsfoundationlanka.org/trust.html |title=Trustees Professor A.H.Sheriffdeen, FRCS, FRCSE, Hon.DSc(Col). |publisher=www.rxpgnews.com |accessdate=2011-08-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331082024/http://aidsfoundationlanka.org/trust.html |archivedate=2012-03-31 }}</ref> and International level.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rxpgnews.com/worldhealthcare/Colombo-AIDS-event-reveals-a-safe-pearl-in-ocean_printer.shtml|title= Colombo AIDS event reveals a 'safe pearl in ocean'|publisher=www.rxpgnews.com|date= |accessdate=2011-08-25}}</ref> He has been President and Vice President of the Charity Colombo Friend in Need Society, Chairman AIDEX (Aid to the Ex-Abled) Sri Lanka in addition to Chairing the Jaipur Foundation programme for Jaipur foot users throughout Sri Lanka.
==Honours and awards== Sheriffdeen was awarded the title Deshamanya by the Government of Sri Lanka, Honorary Fellowships by Ceylon College of Physicians and the College of General Practitioners of Sri Lanka. He is an amateur golfer of repute.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailynews.lk/2008/07/26/spo23.asp |title='Pin Fernando' golf finalists found |work=dailynews.lk/2008/07/26/spo23.asp |accessdate=2011-08-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021062631/http://www.dailynews.lk/2008/07/26/spo23.asp |archivedate=2012-10-21 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.island.lk/2006/11/09/sports11.html|title=119th SL Open Amateur Golf Competition – 2006|publisher=www.island.lk|date= |accessdate=2011-08-25}}</ref>
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