{"id":1912,"date":"2025-05-23T08:24:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T02:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.slaas.lk\/?page_id=1912"},"modified":"2025-05-30T10:48:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T05:18:20","slug":"kottegoda-oration","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.slaas.lk\/index.php\/kottegoda-oration\/","title":{"rendered":"Kottegoda Oration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; content_placement=&#8221;middle&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1747971109752{margin-right: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1915&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<strong>Vidya Jothi S.R. Kottegoda<\/strong>\u00a0was a\u00a0Sri Lankan\u00a0academic\u00a0and\u00a0physician. He was the Head of the Department of Pharmacology of the\u00a0Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, thereafter becoming Dean of the Faculty, and later National Coordinator, Health Systems Research, Ministry of Health. He joined the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the\u00a0Faculty of Medicine\u00a0of the\u00a0National University of Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Kottegoda was a leading authority in the SLAAS on the subject of Ethics in Science, having established the oldest Ethics Review Committee in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>He is also the author of the definitive pictorial guide book \u2018Flowers of Sri Lanka\u2019.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; content_placement=&#8221;middle&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1747971109752{margin-right: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1915&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Vidya Jothi S.R. Kottegoda\u00a0was a\u00a0Sri Lankan\u00a0academic\u00a0and\u00a0physician. He was the Head of the Department of Pharmacology of the\u00a0Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, thereafter becoming Dean of the Faculty, and later National Coordinator, Health Systems Research, Ministry of Health. He joined the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slaas.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slaas.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slaas.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slaas.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slaas.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.slaas.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934,"href":"https:\/\/www.slaas.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1912\/revisions\/1934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slaas.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}