[1] He was awarded a Government scholarship to the Ceylon Medical College in 1918 and qualified with L.M.S.
[2] He returned to Sri Lanka to serve as visiting physician General Hospital, Colombo and visiting paediatrician at the Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children.
He was honorary secretary and treasurer of the Ceylon Branch of the B.M.A., and President Ceylon Medical Association (later renamed Sri Lanka Medical Association) in 1953.
The Ceylon College of Physicians commemorates his memory with an award of a gold medal Oration delivered at the ceremonial inauguration of its annual scientific sessions.
He is also known for his services to education founding with his wife, the girls school Anula Vidyalaya Nugegoda.