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SLMC sessions with prestigious guest speakers
The Sri Lanka Medical Council, the oldest medical association in Australasia, is holding its annual academic sessions from March 23 to 25 at the Continental Hotel in Colombo. A unique feature of this year's sessions is that presidents of the Australian, British and Indian medical associations would be addressing the sessions.

Pre-congress workshops on very topical issues would also be conducted in a bid to train the trainers in association with the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine and faculty members would include overseas experts. Among these would be one on 'Tsunamis and Mass Disasters.'

The SLMA oration, to be delivered by Professor S.N. Wickramasinghe titled "The use and functions of the bone marrow" would touch on the latest advances in stem cell research.

This will be among three orations that are to be delivered on this occasion. The other two are the S.C. Paul Oration, to be delivered by Professor Sir Charles George, President, British Medical Association on 'Tackling Coronary Artery Disease' and the Sri Lanka Association of Nephrology and Transplantation Oration, titled 'Success in Transplantation,' to be delivered by Mr. Chris Rudge, a transplant surgeon and the Director of the National Transplant programme in Britain.

There will be 60 foreign and local speakers who would deliver lectures on various topics such as diabetes, cancer, heart disease, genetics and assisted reproductive technologies, child health, metabolic and endocrine disorders, epilepsy, respiratory disorders, infection control, nuclear medicine and critical care.

In addition, 96 Sri Lankan research papers would be presented by Lankan researchers on research carried out in the island. The conference is open to the public.

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