Rehabilitation, Resettlement and Refugees Minister Dr. Jayalath Jayawardana has been awarded a professorship, in Bioengineering and Medical Devices Systems by the Kursk State University of Russia.

Dr. J. Jayawardana has been serving the Kursk State University as a Specialist Consultant for years and has also rendered his services as a special consultant to the Moscow Medical Academy, and Russian State Medical University. He has also been serving several world-famous universities as a Medical Research Consultant, to graduate and post-graduate medical students.

This has been the first occasion an Asian has been awarded the most prestigious professorship by the Kursk State University of Russia…………………………

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“Sunday Island” August 24th, 2003.