Professor M. Sivasuriya is a Sri Lankan Tamil physician, academic and former chancellor of the University of Jaffna.
Sivasuriya was educated at the University of Ceylon from where he received a MBBS degree.
[1] Sivasuriya was one of the founding members of staff of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya in 1962.
[2] Sivasuriya then became the first Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Jaffna.
[3] He served as Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the university.