Carlo Fonseka (Sinhala: කාලෝ ෆොන්සේකා Kālō Fonsēkā; 4 March 1933 – 2 September 2019) [1] was a Sri Lankan physician, academic and political activist. He was a former dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya and a former president of the Sri Lanka Medical Council .

Carlo Fonseka (Sinhala: කාලෝ ෆොන්සේකා Kālō Fonsēkā; 4 March 1933 – 2 September 2019) was a Sri Lankan physician, academic and political activist. He was a dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya.

2025年3月5日 · While being the president of the SLMC he criticized South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) a private medical school and when he left the SLMC Fonseka claimed he fought alongside...

2019年9月5日 · Carlo Fonseka, MBBS (First Class) University of Ceylon, Ph.D. University of Edinburgh, Emeritus Professor of Physiology of the University of Ceylon (now Colombo), is such an exception – engaging in medicine, management of public bodies, theology, music, leftwing Trotskyite politics, and many other things and bringing these to the public ...

2019年9月2日 · It is with a deep sense of sorrow I announce the demise of Professor Carlo Fonseka, a great philosopher, scientist and teacher par excellence. He adorned our halls of learning in the Faculty of Medicine Colombo with great precision and aplomb, and never missed an opportunity to join us in fellowship when we traversed major institutional milestones.

Prof. Carlo Fonseka (1933-2019) The Barnum of Sri Lanka. by Sachi Sri Kantha, November 20, 2019. Prof. Carlo Fonseka, who died on September 2, 2019 at the age of 86, belongs to my tribe. Born in Sri Lanka 20 years apart (I’m his junior) and we both had a professional career as an academic in mostly university setting.

2020年1月23日 · The name of Professor Carlo Fonseka is synonymous with the field of medicine in Sri Lanka. Born in 1933 to a Roman Catholic family, Fonseka was educated at Maris Stella College Negombo and St. Joseph’s College Colombo.

2021年11月6日 · Professor Fonseka was the Chairman of the National Authority on Tobacco and Alcohol, and was one of six South-East Asia Region awardees of the World No Tobacco Day-2012 awards. And, well into his retirement, in 2012, he was appointed President of the Sri Lanka Medical Council, a post that he held for five years.

The Faculty mourns the passing away of the Founder Dean and Emeritus Professor of Physiology, Prof Carlo Fonseka. Prof Fonseka was a charismatic figure who endeared himself to the public with his oratory skills, flair for writing both on academic and national issues, interest in music and the arts and humanistic qualities.

Professor Carlo Fonseka (1933 – 2019) was our founder Dean and Professor of Physiology. In 1991, he took on the huge challenge of establishing a new Faculty of Medicine for the University of Kelaniya from the remnants of the North Colombo Medical College, which had been vested in the state after a prolonged period of civil unrest.