Professor Namal Wijesinghe works as the Professor of Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University. He is also the former Dean of this medical faculty. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Ruhuna University and had his initial postgraduate training at the Post Graduate Institute of Medicine of Colombo University, Sri Lanka, to obtain MD (Medicine). He had advanced training in Cardiology in New Zealand to obtain Fellowship of Royal Australasian College of Physician (FRACP). He had interventional cardiology training at the St Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver. He has also been honored with Fellowship of Royal College of Physicians (FRCP), Fellowship of Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (FRCP Edin), Fellowship of Ceylon College of Physicians (FCCP), Fellowship of Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (FCSANZ) and the Fellowship of European Society of Cardiology (FESC).

Professor Namal Wijesinghe is the current president of the Ceylon College of Physicians in Dri Lanka.