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Dr WM Tilakaratne BDS, MS, FDSRCS, FRCPath, PhD is currently the Professor of Oral Pathology and Senior Consultant attached to the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Malaya. He has held many academic and professional positions including Professor of Oral Pathology at the Queen Mary University of London and visiting Professor to universities in many countries. He is the former Dean, Faculty of Dental Sciences, University of Peradeniya Sri Lanka, and past president of the International Association of Oral Pathologists. He is a researcher of high repute and listed in the best 2% of world Scientists. He was awarded as the best researcher (CVCD) in Medical, Dental and veterinary sciences in Sri Lanka and a recipient of Presidential research award. His main research areas are oral cancer and oral potentially malignant disorders. He has published over 160 papers with an H-index of 43, written two textbooks, and contributed to more than 30 chapters. He is an Editor for the WHO classification