Professor Nimal Senanayake is a Sri Lankan neurologist, physician, author, film and television scriptwriter and academic.
[1] He trained at the Professorial medical unit at General Hospital Colombo, working alongside HHR Samarasinghe and Kumaradasa Rajasuriya.
[4] He mentored number of leading clinician sientists to the world with one of the most notable being Prof Tissa Wijeratne[, Chair, Public Awarenss and Advocacy, Tissa Wijeratne]World Federation of Neurology during his early years as a neurology and internal medicine trainee from 1996–1999.
Senanayake is best known for his work on the neurotoxicity of pesticides and particularly organophosphorous compounds but has published extensively where he is regarded to have coined the term "Intermediate Syndrome", a clinical phase of Organophosphate poisoning.
He currently leads with an Australian colleague[6] a Wellcome Trust funded initiative to reduce deaths from pesticides.