Dr. J.K.T. Gamini Prematilake - Consultant Psychiatrist- Clinical & Rehabilitation Division

Dr.Prematilake has joined the government service in 1980 and served the Department of Health as Consultant Psychiatrist for a period of 24 years until 2004.  He has also been the Consultant Psychiatrist of the National Council for Mental Health  for 4 years from 1990 to  1994. He has had a short stint of  1 year in  the Ministry of Health  working  as Consultant in Community Mental Health on Health Sector  Development Project funded by the World Bank from 2005 to 2006. Hecontinues to serve the Mental Health Resource Centres of the National Council for Mental Health in the capacity of  Consultant Psychiatrist.

Dr.Premathilake is a member of the Management Committee of the National Council for Mental Health.

Dr.Prematilake has represented Sri Lanka at the International Congress on Communication and Disability  conducted in collaboration with the Advanced Institute of the World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation held in Paris in February, 1988.  He has also participated in the International Symposium on Community  Care  of Schizophrenia in Developing Countries at NIMHANS in India in February, 1999 and as the Speaker at   Citizenship is Therapeutics (Comparison on the good practices for the mental health in the world in Milano, Italy in April 2002