Deshamanya Professor A. H. Sheriffdeen is a Sri Lankan surgeon, academic and voluntary worker.
Sheriffdeen was Professor of Surgery at Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo with contemporaries Priyani Soysa, Ravindra fernando and Rezvi Sheriff.
[5] He has been chairman of the Ministry of Health Trauma protocols at the Trauma Secretariat,[6] Board of Study in Surgery at Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, President Sri Lanka Medical Association and President The College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka.
[7] 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 [8] and International level.
[9] 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.