Niro Siriwardena

Niroshan is an academic general practitioner and director of the Community and Health Research Unit, the research centre for the School of Health and Social Care. After studying at the City of London School, where he was a Corporation of London music scholar, he completed medical training at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, where he won the Kirke’s scholarship in Clinical Medicine. After house jobs at ‘Bart’s’ and Hackney Hospitals, he undertook general practitioner training in Lincoln.

His publications are as follows:
1. Siriwardena AN, Shaw D, Essam N, Togher F, Davy Z, Spaight A, Dewey M. The effect of the Ambulance Services Cardiovascular Quality Initiative on prehospital care for acute myocardial infarction and stroke in England. Implementation Science 2014; 9:17.

2. Huedo-Medina T, Kirsch I, Middlemass J, Klonizakis M, Siriwardena AN. Effectiveness of non-benzodiazepine hypnotics in treatment of adult insomnia: meta-analysis of data submitted to the Food and Drug Administration. British Medical Journal 2012; 345: e8343.

3. Siriwardena AN, Asghar Z, Coupland C. Influenza and pneumococcal vaccination and risk of stroke or transient ischaemic attack—Matched case control study. Vaccine 2014; 32: 1354-1361.