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Rezvi Sheriff

Rezvi Sheriff is a physics topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Rezvi Sheriff rather than just read about it. In short: Vidya Jyothi Mohamed Hussain Rezvi Sheriff (Sinhala: මොහොමඩ් හුසේන් රෙස්වි ෂෙරිෆ්; 4 November 1948 – 30 March 2026) was a Sri Lankan academic, nephrologist and physician. He served as director of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, senior professor of medicine, and head of the Department of Clinical Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo.

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Reference excerpt

Vidya Jyothi Mohamed Hussain Rezvi Sheriff (Sinhala: මොහොමඩ් හුසේන් රෙස්වි ෂෙරිෆ්; 4 November 1948 – 30 March 2026) was a Sri Lankan academic, nephrologist and physician. He served as director of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, senior professor of medicine, and head of the Department of Clinical Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo. Sheriff was a senior professor of medicine at General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University from 2018 until his retirement. He was a consultant physician and nephrologist at the National Hospital of Sri Lanka, and chairman of Western Hospital.

Education Sheriff began his formal education at Zahira College, Colombo, and later received a scholarship for Royal College Colombo. He subsequently enrolled at the Faculty of Medicine at Royal College Colombo, obtaining a Bachelor of Medicine, a Bachelor of Surgery, and a Doctor of Medicine. Sheriff was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and the Ceylon College of Physicians.

Career Sheriff began his academic career as a lecturer in medicine in the Department of Medicine under Professor Kumaradasa Rajasuriya in 1973. He obtained his MRCP after completing his postgraduate training in the UK and returned to Sri Lanka. His academic career in the Sri Lankan university system spanned several decades. He worked with A. H. Sheriffdeen to establish the first transplant programme in Sri Lanka in October 1985. With the support of the Colombo University team, they performed the first kidney transplant in the country. Alongside Surendra Ramachandran, Sheriff contributed to the development of nephrology as a specialty in Sri Lanka. He became Professor of Medicine in 1990, and Senior Professor of Medicine in 1998. By 2015, nearly 1,000 transplants had been conducted under his oversight. Sheriff was a senior advisory board member to SACTRC (South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration) with Nimal Senanayake, Ravindra Fernando and Janaka de Silva. He founded the University of Oxford Colombo for studies on snake bites and yellow oleander poisoning. He served as the president of the Sri Lanka Medical Association, Ceylon College of Physicians, Sri Lanka Association for Nephrology and Transplantation, SAARC Society of Nephrology, Urology and Transplant Surgery and the founding president of the Hypertension Society in Sri Lanka in addition to being a founder of the Health Informatics Society in Sri Lanka and a councillor of the International Society of Nephrology. Rezvi was an External Examiner for MRCP in UK & Chennai. He was the Ceylon College of Physicians Coordinator for MRCP Examinations in Sri Lanka. He was appointed the president of Sri Lanka Medical Association in 2009. Sheriff was also the founder and chairman of Western Infirmary Hospital in Colombo, a centre for renal disease care, dialysis, and transplantation. In 2011, he was rated among Sri Lanka's most prolific scientists in terms of number of publications, according to the Web of Science database. He published academic articles on nephrology, organ transplantation, snake bites and oleander poisoning. He retired from the University of Colombo on 30 September 2014, after rendering 41 years of service.

Controversy In 2019, Sheriff filed complaints with the Criminal Investigation Department over social media allegations that he treated Zahran Hashim, the prime suspect behind the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings.

Personal life and death In October 2022, Sheriff underwent a kidney transplant at the Western Infirmary/Western Hospital. He died in Colombo on 30 March 2026, at the age of 77.

Honours and awards Sheriff was an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, the College of General Practitioners of Sri Lanka and a Fellow of the National Academy of Science of Sri Lanka. The honour Vidya Jyothi was conferred upon him by the Government of Sri Lanka in 1993 in recognition of his contribution to nephrology, dialysis and transplantation in Sri Lanka. He also received a Lion International Merit Award.

References

External links Rezvi Sheriff publications indexed by Google Scholar

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Rezvi Sheriff

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Rezvi Sheriff claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In physics, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Rezvi Sheriff before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Rezvi Sheriff ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Rezvi Sheriff

In research: Rezvi Sheriff appears in physics research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Rezvi Sheriff in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Rezvi Sheriff is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1948 births, 2026 deaths, Academic staff of the University of Colombo, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Rezvi Sheriff outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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