Dr. Sivapragasam Yathukulan

Dr. Sivapragasam Yathukulan

MBBS(Jaffna), MD in Internal Medicine (Colombo)

Lecturer (Unconfirmed) in Pharmacology and Associate Specialist in General Medicine
Department of Pharmacology,
Faculty of Medicine,
University of Jaffna

yathu@univ.jfn.ac.lk
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Positions

  •  July 2025 to date- Lecturer (Unconfirmed) in Pharmacology Faculty of Medicine, University of Jaffna and Associate specialist in General medicine.
  • January 2025 to June 2025- Acting consultant physician in Internal Medicine and Medical  superintendent, Mullangavil Base hospital, Killinochchi, Sri Lanka.
  • December 2023 to December 2024- Senior Registrar in General Medicine, University Medical Unit Teaching Hospital, Batticaloa.
  • September 2020 to November 2023- Registrar in Medicine, National Hospital Sri Lanka.
  • December 2018 to August 2020- Relief House Officer, Teaching Hospital, Jaffna.
  • December 2017 to November 2018- Intern Medical Officer – Medicine, Surgery Teaching Hospital, Jaffna.

 

Professional Society memberships

  • Associate member of the Ceylon College of Physicians
  • Associate Member of the Sri Lanka College of Internal Medicine
  • Associate Member of the Sri Lanka Association of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
  • Sri Lanka Medical Council    
  • MBBS -2016 – University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka
  • MD ( Medicine)-2023- Postgraduate Institute of Medicine – University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
  1. Nicholsan Jesiah, Yathukulan S and Pakkiyaretnan Mayurathan . Case report: An Uncommon Case of Secondary Organizing Pneumonia Due to Influenza A Infection. Cureus 17(1):e77043.DOI 10.7759/cureus.77043. January 2025.
  1. ,Nicholsan Jesiah, Yathukulan S and Sundaresan KT . Case report: Fatal Neutropenia Sepsis Following Acute Methotrexate Toxicity. Cureus 17(1):e77754.DOI 10.7759/cureus.77754. January 2025.
  1. Basanayake B.R.C.M,Yathukulan S and Pakkiyaretnan Mayurathan . Case report: Fibronil poisoning presenting as seizures and rhabdomyolysis – an Unusual presentation .Asian Journal of Internal medicine volume 4(1):51-54.DOI:10.4038/ajim.v4i1.180.
  1. Nicholsan Jesiah, Yathukulan S and Pakkiyaretnan Mayurathan . Case report: A Survival case of High-Dose Amilodipine Intoxification with Uuusual manifestation of type 2 respiratory failure. Cureus 17(3):e80768.DOI 10.7759/cureus.80768. January 2025.
  1. Tharsiga Thanigasalam, Yathukulan S and Pakkiyaretnan Mayurathan. Case report: Bilateral Moyamoya disease resulting in anterior circulation stroke: first case report in Sri Lanka. Asian Journal of Internal medicine volume 4(2):87-92. DOI:10.4038/ajim.v4i2.261.
  1. Tharsiga Thanigasalam, Yathukulan S and Pakkiyaretnan Mayurathan. Case report: Cryptogenic anterior circulation stroke in a young woman with a patent foramen ovale. Galle medical journal .vol 30.No1 March 2025.DOI:10.4038/gmj.v30iL.8258.
  1. Yathukulan S, Sundaresan KT 2024.Review article: Serum Ferritin in Dengue Infection.Cureus16(12)e76103.DOI 10.7759/cureus.76103. `December 2024
  1. Yathukulan S, J.C Charles 2024. Malignant hypertension as a rare cause of thrombotic microangiopathy associated with end -stage renal disease. Asian Journal Internal Medicine, July 3(2) 2024.

  2. Yathukulan S, Mayurathan P and Tharshiga T 2024. A rare bleeding disorder with severe hemorrhagic manifestation. Asian Journal Internal Medicine, July 3(2) 2024.

  3. Yathukulan S, Mayurathan P, Francis VR and Francis GR.2023. Review article: The diagnosis and management of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis. Batticaloa Medical Journal volume 17(02), September 2023.

  4. Yathukulan S, A. Gunapala and J.C Charles 2023. Non resolving pneumonia in a young patient with fungal granulomatous infections: an unusual presentation of lung malignancy Anuradhapura medical journal Volume 17 page 68-72.

  5. Yathukulan S, Gunapala and J.C Charles 2022. Aortic dissection presenting as inferior ST elevation myocardial infarction and importance of early echocardiography. Jaffna medical journal 30 December 2022 34(2) page 45-47.

  6. A Successfully managed case of triple infection with invasive Aspergillosis, Cryptosporidiosis and COVID-19 in a renal transplant recipient; importance of effective diagnosis. Yathukulan S, Galahitiyawa MCB, Charles JC, Ravithas K and Vinojakan S. Poster presentation on Jaffna medical association Annual Scientific session 2022

  7. A Fatal case of COVID-19 pneumonia complicated by bilateral pneumothorax. Yathukulan S, Galahitiyawa MCB, Charles JC, Ravithas K and Vinojakan S. Poster presentation on Jaffna medical association Annual Scientific session 2022
  1. Diabetic retinopathy and its known risk factors among diabetic patients attending eye clinic and wards in Teaching Hospital, Jaffna; Yathukulan s, Nirosan N, Malaravan M and Surenthirakumaran R – Jaffna medical association Annual Scientific Session 2017.
  1. Yathukulan S, Kandeepan K, Balakumar S and Arasaratnam V. 2013.Nutritional status of adolescents’ students in Thenmarachi Zonal schools, Jaffna. Proce.of the Jaff.Medi. Asso, Annual Scientific Sessions 2013.pp24
  • Pulmonary therapeutics
  • Infective diseases and antimicrobial therapy
  • Drug discovery and clinical trails
  • Pharmacogenetic and pharmacogenomics