Dr. Trupti Kulkarni
I am a motivated and experienced Consultant Radiologist since 2013 and presently at Manchester University Foundation Trust, Wythenshawe. I specialise in breast and head and neck radiology. I have obtained my Medical Degree from the then Bombay University as a student of Grant Medical College and JJ group of Hospitals. I trained in Radiology in the United Kingdom and obtained the FRCR in 2011. I have also obtained an MS in General surgery (year 2000) from Mumbai University as a student of the Seth GS Medical College and MRCS (year 2004) from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
Clinical Experience:
Breast Radiology (symptomatic and screening) – one stop and assessment clinics, image guided procedures (including use of stereo, tomo and MRI) and reporting of all the above-mentioned modalities and leading MDTs
Head and Neck Radiology – One stop neck clinic, ultrasound guided intervention, CT and MRI reporting in head and neck and leading MDTs
Academic and Research Experience:
Peer reviewer: Clinical Radiology, The Breast, RSNA Cases, The BMJ and Colorectal Disease, phone apps on diagnostic imaging, on editorial board for the breast radiology section of ‘Physical Examination for Surgeons: An Aid to the MRCS OSCE’
Trials: PREVENT funded study on increasing uptake of breast screening in South Asian women and SMALL trial looking at vacuum excisions of breast lesions
Education and training Experience
Training Programme Director – Northwest School of Radiology
Education and Training Lead for the British Society of Breast Radiology (BSBR)
Examiner for the PLAB exam
Faculty on Aintree, Southwest, FRCR tutorials and University of Bolton FRCR 2B courses
Faculty and examiner for Advanced MRI practice University of Salford
Assessor at the Southwest FRCR course “assessing the assessor’’ course
Reviewer for head and neck modules for the R-ITI project and i-Refer guidelines
Content developer for online modules for the National Breast Imaging Academy
Royal College Representative on Consultant Interview panels
OSCE examiner for medical students and Foundation Programme doctors
Academic advisor and project supervisor for year 3-5 Medical students
Radiology interview panelist for post-graduates aiming to train in Radiology
Mindfulness practitioner and facilitator – Health Education England
Consultant Mentor- Royal College of Radiologists
International Teaching Experience
Kenya- UK Health Alliance- 2-day Teaching on breast Radiology – March 2022
Lira (Uganda) – Breast Ultrasound training – online session – May 2022
Breast and Head and Neck Teaching to Medical students Ukraine – March to July 2022
Kenya (Newly qualified General Surgeons)- Introduction to Breast radiology –2022
India – IMMIX 2021- Panelist
I am passionate about the practice of both breast and head and neck radiology and teaching and training in radiology. I enjoy interacting with students at various points on their training path ranging from school students considering medicine as a career to my peers and allied health professionals looking to further knowledge as part of continued education. I strongly believe in international co-operation in teaching. I am a keen observer of the parallels between art and science and myself am a student of Indian classical dance in the tradition of ‘lifelong learning’.
