Zeid Badurdeen

A general physician with 28 years of clinical experience, including multidisciplinary research in environmental pollutions and kidney diseases for the past 9 years.  Which includes experienced in clinical trials (RCT) and translational biomarker research.  I am competent in working in the Luminex platform. My PhD thesis is a study in relation to clinical validation of candidate biomarkers for kidney diseases.

Clinical experience in Sri Lanka

Clinical experience in the Middle East 

Research Carrier

Contributions as a resource person

1. Candidate Proteomic Biomarkers in Perspectives of Chronic Kidney Diseases, a resource person at Multiplexing with Luminex XMAP technology workshop, held at Faculty of Medicine, Sri Jayewardenepura on the 19th of May 2016.
2. Making water safer- combating the disease and need for solutions, a resource person at National Chemical and process Engineering conference (COMPASS 2017) held at BMICH, Colombo, on the 25th of November 2016.
3. The exposure and outcome biomarker interpretation in Epidemiological model; in Chronic low dose exposure to environmental toxins, at National Research Council (NRC) monthly meeting presentation at Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya on the 22nd of September 2016.
4. A comprehensive study on patients presenting with acute interstitial nephritis from CKDu endemic regions- proposal for National Science Foundation (NSF) grant 2016, presented at NSF Colombo, on the 3rd of October 2016. 
5. Causal relationship between Fluorosis and CKD/CKDu presented at CERTKiD, faculty of Medicine, university of Peradeniya, held on the 6th of March 2017. 

 Special contributions

1. One of the contributors in National CKD Screening and Management guideline preparation.
2. A resource person in Field program of UC Davis (University of California), USA, held in Sri Lanka, in August 2015.
3. Co-ordinate and conduct renal care program in Giradurukotte and Wilgamuwa regions.
4. Organize CKD/CKDu screening programs.
5. Co-ordinate CERTKiD education programs held for trainers.
6. Participated in sister center on-site CAPD education workshop organized by Stanford University, USA, held at renal transplant unit Teaching hospital Kandy on the 27th to 29th of December 2016.
7. Organized the World Kidney Day 2016 international event held at Ginnoruwa Sri Lanka on Apr 2, 2016. The event was judged as the winner, sponsored by International Pediatric Nephrologists Association (IPNA). 

MBBS - Awarded by University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, in May 1994

Ph.D.- Awarded by University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in January 2022

Sri Lanka Medical Council Registration number – 11535

Research Publications

1. Badurdeen Zeid, Nanayakkara N, Ratnatunga NV, Wazil AW, Abeysekera TD, Rajakrishna PN, Thinnarachchi JP, Kumarasiri R, Welagedera DD, Rajapaksha N, Alwis AP. Chronic kidney disease of uncertain etiology in Sri Lanka is a possible sequel of interstitial nephritis! Clinical nephrology. 2016;86(13):106.
2. Samantha Ratnayake, Zeid Badurdeen, Nishantha Nanayakkara, Tilak Abeysekara, Neelakanthi Ratnatunga and Ranjith Kumarasiri, Screening for chronic kidney disease of uncertain aetiology in Sri Lanka: usability of surrogate biomarkers over dipstick proteinuria, BMC Nephrology (2017) 18:199.
3. Fernando BNTW, Hettiarachchi TW, Sudeshika T, Badurdeen Zeid, Abeysundara H, Ranasinghe S, Rathnayake MP, Nanayakkara N. Snapshot view on anaemia in chronic kidney disease of uncertain etiology, Nephrology (Carlton). 2018 Dec 7. 
4. Anand S, Montez-Rath ME, Adasooriya D, Ratnatunga N, Kambham N, Wazil A, Wijetunge S, Badurdeen Zeid, Ratnayake C, Karunasena N, Schensul SL, Valhos P, Haider L, Bhalla V, Levin A, Wise PH, Chertow GM, Barry M, Fire AZ, Nanayakkara N. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2019 Jan 18. pii: CJN.07430618. 
5. Fernando, Buddhi NTW, Asfa Alli-Shaik, Rusiru KD Hemage, Zeid Badurdeen, Thilini W. Hettiarachchi, Hemalika TK Abeysundara, Thilak DJ Abeysekara et al. "Pilot Study of Renal Urinary Biomarkers for Diagnosis of CKD of Uncertain Etiology." Kidney international reports 4, no. 10 (2019): 1401-1411.
6. Thilini W. Hettiarachchi, Fernando BNTW, Badurdeen Zeid, Ranasinghe S, Nanayakkara N.  An Analysis of Rate of Progression and Associated Risk Factors of Chronic Kidney Disease of Uncertain Etiology in Sri Lanka accepted for publication in the Saudi journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplant.
7. Fernando BNTW, Sudeshika TSH, Hettiarachchi TW, Badurdeen Z, Abeysekara TDJ, Abeysundara HTK, et al. (2020) Evaluation of biochemical profile of chronic kidney disease  of uncertain etiology in Sri Lanka. PLoS ONE 15(5): e0232522. 
8. Badurdeen Z, Abeysekera TD, Gunaratne L, Ratnayake S, Ratnatunga NV, Nanayakkara N. Point prevalence of chronic kidney disease of uncertain etiology in a suspected endemic region determined using predefined cutoffs for markers of kidney disease: a pilot study. Sri Lanka Journal of Medicine. 2020 Dec 15;29(2).
9. Pry JM, Jackson W, Rupasinghe R, Lishanthe G, Badurdeen Z, Abeysekara T, Chandrajith R, Smith W, Wickramasinghe S. A pilot case-control study using a one health approach to evaluate behavioral, environmental, and occupational risk factors for chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology in Sri Lanka. One Health Outlook. 2021 Dec;3(1):1-2.
10. Hettiarachchi TW, Fernando BN, Sudeshika T, Badurdeen Z, Anand S, Kularatne A, Wijetunge S, Abeysundara HT, Nanayakkara N. Prevalence, risk factors and predicted risk of cardiac events in chronic kidney disease of uncertain aetiology in Sri Lanka: A tubular interstitial nephropathy. Plos one. 2021 Apr 14;16(4): e0249539.
11. Premarathne S, Chandrajith R, Nanayakkara N, Gamage CD, Ratnatunga N, Wijetunge S, Badurdeen Z, Guruge S, Elladeniya N, Madushan KP, Samarasiri KO. Could Consumption of Trace Element–Contaminated Rice Be a Risk Factor for Acute Interstitial Nephritis with Uncertain Etiology in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka? Biological Trace Element Research. 2021 Aug 25:1-9.
12. Hettiarachchi TW, Nayanamali MAA, Sudeshika T, Fernando WBNT, Badurdeen Z, Nanayakkara S, et al. Mortality pattern of chronic kidney disease of uncertain etiology in Girandurukotte, Sri Lanka. Ceylon Journal of Science. 2021;50(3):293–6. 
13. Hettiarachchi TW, Sudeshika T, Fernando BN, Abeysundara HT, Hemage RD, Badurdeen Z, Hanarasinghe R, Wijetunge S, Nanayakkara N. An Analysis of Rate of Progression and Associated Risk Factors of Chronic Kidney Disease of Uncertain Etiology in Sri Lanka. Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation. 2021 May 1;32(3):711.

Awards

1. Awarded for commendable oral presentation at Annual Academic Sessions, by the Kandy Society of Medicine, in March 2015.

2. Awarded for the best abstract in oral presentation category at annual academic sessions, Kandy Society of Medicine on the 18th of February 2017.

3. Awarded S. Ramachandran award for the best scientific communication in Nephrology (presenting author), at the Sri Lanka Medical Association Prizes and Award ceremony held on the 26th of October 2017.