Janaka de Silva FRCP FNASSL is a Sri Lankan physician and academic.
[5] Before becoming its Director he chaired a number of boards in the PGIM[6] where he and colleagues established the first formal training programme for gastroenterologists in Sri Lanka.
Together with Kemal Deen and a few others he pioneered setting up of the liver transplant service at the Colombo North Teaching Hospital.
[7] De Silva’s most influential contributions to research stemmed from his abiding interest in health problems prevalent in Sri Lanka.
[17] In addition to several awards and fellowships from academic and professional bodies,[18][19] de Silva was conferred an honorary DSc by his university, and the national titular honour Vidya Jyothi - Sri Lanka's highest honor for science.