Dr Malka Sandunmalee Liyanage MBBS MD FRCA PGCertMEd MACadMEd
GMC 7148511
Dr Malka Sandunmalee Liyanage (Sanduni Liyanage) gained her degree in Medicine from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura in Sri Lanka in 2004. She completed her post graduate training in anaesthetics and obtained her MD in Anaesthesiology from the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka in 2010. She underwent further training in anaesthetics and intensive care including in burns and plastics in the United Kingdom and obtained her FRCA in 2012 and a Post Graduate certificate in Medical Education from University College London in 2016. She was appointed as a Consultant Anaesthetist at Broomfield Hospital part of Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust in 2016. She was awarded practising privileges in Springfield Hospital in 2017.
Dr Liyanage is a keen educator and is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Health Sciences and Education at Queen Mary University of London. She is also the Head of the Clinical Teaching Fellow programme at Broomfield Hospital and was also the Deputy Sub Dean for undergraduate medical students. Dr Liyanage is also an appointed expert witness in Anaesthetics and a specialist applications assessor for the General Medical Council (GMC). She also teaches at the Royal College of Anaesthetists in the Anaesthetists as Educators – Teaching and Training in the workplace course and is an Advanced Trauma Life Support instructor. She is also a member of the Academy of Medical Educators (AoME).
Dr Liyanage anaesthetises for a variety of General Surgical, Orthopaedic, Gynaecological, Vascular, Plastics, Maxillofacial and Ophthalmology operations at both Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust and Springfield Hospital. She also has a special interest in Obstetric Anaesthesia.
Her spare time is spent in her garden growing roses and showing them off to her colleagues.
