Profile Details

About

Qualifications:

• MBBS -Madras Medical College, 1995
• International MSK radiology fellowship 2013
• CCT(UK)-2008
• Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists FRCR-2007
• Member of Royal College of Surgeons MRCS (Ed)-2002

RESEARCH

• Coauthor – poster presentation - Enterococcal endocarditis related reactive arthritis with typical imaging features distinguishing it from infective spondyloarthritis – World rheumatology forum – Gurgaon – Jan 2019.
• Second author – Case report – Gas in the bone – emphysematous OM – Eurorad  Jan 2017.
• IRIA 2015- ‘our experience - comparison of MR arthrography with conventional shoulder MRI’ - guarantor and coauthor 
• 2014/15/16 – Delphi group expert member involved in development of RCR’s iRefer musculoskeletal radiology guideline reviews.
• Coauthor – Case report - Idiopathic pulmonary venous thrombosis – Journal of case reports -2015
• European Congress of Radiology 2008; - ‘High resolution computed tomography (HRCT) findings of the lungs in febrile neutropenic patients’-coauthor
• Educational exhibit at ECR 2007- ‘Pleuropulmonary manifestations of asbestos-related disease: Computed tomography (CT) findings’-coauthor
• Educational exhibit at ECR 2007- ‘The organic dust: Radiographic and high resolution CT findings of hypersensitivity pneuomonitis ‘-coauthor
• Poster presentation at RSNA 2006 - ‘Pictoral review of CT features of pnemocystis pneumonia’ –Dec 2006 –coauthor
• Poster presentation at BSIR – ‘Radiological intervention –a justifiable approach in management of failing dialysis access’-Nov 2005 -main author
• Poster Presentation at The Annual Scientific Meeting of RCR ‘CT guided transthoracic lung biopsies in a district general hospital - An experience over 44 months.’– Sept 2003 -main author

AUDITS

• Audits on ‘Are the reports addressing Questions posed?’ and ‘Patient arrival times’ at scunthorpe general hospital – Feb 2017
• Compliance audit on CT heads – highlighting and reporting standards – Dec 2016
• Senior quality control Auditor for Columbia asia Radiology group
• Involved in presentation of a departmental audit evaluating the procedural outcome of Varicocele embolisation-2007
• Departmental audit evaluating intervention in failed Dialysis Access-Jun2005
• Departmental Audit evaluating the efficacy and complications of CT guided lung biopsies at York district Hospital-Jan 2003
• Departmental Audit comparing current practices of x-ray requests for ankle injuries in the A&E department of Dewsbury & District Hospital to Ottawa Guidelines-Jul 1998

CONFERENCES AND OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

• Faculty – IRIA National conference – Mar 2022 
• Faculty – Multi disciplinary workshop – Knee MRI – Aug 2020 – Indonesia
• Faculty -  Musculoskeletal society conference – Pune - Aug 2019  
• Faculty – Asian musculoskeletal conference – Chennai - Aug 2018  
• Faculty – Manipal FRCR 2B course, Bangalore , India – 2012/2014/2015/2017/2018/2023 
• Faculty – Sathya Sai – SACRED 18- MSK MRI conference- Bangalore , India – Apr 2017
• Faculty – Columbia Asia - PG refresher course – Jan 2017
• Faculty – 4th annual conference, Ahmedabad – Musculoskeletal society of India –September 2016
• Faculty – Bangalore FRCR course – Sakra hospitals – March 2016, 2017.
• Faculty – RARE (Ramachandra advanced radiology education) conference – Chennai – Feb 2015, 2016
• Course coordinator/ Organising secretary and faculty for the ‘First Bangalore columbia asia MSK imaging course in association with faculty of British MSK U/S and MRI course’ - 2014
• Faculty - CME -Advances in shoulder imaging - Bangalore - June 2013.
• Faculty – update on imaging and interventional radiology – command hospital air force, Bangalore , India - 2012
• Faculty – Bariatric surgery CME –  Columbia asia , Bangalore, India - 2012
• Faculty – Surgical conference at VIMS, Bellary-2011
• Faculty – post graduate teaching programme – KIMS - 2011
• Presentation of a rare case of Adenocarcinoma in ileostomy following panproctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis at the Yorkshire regional society of coloproctologists – 2001

Area of Interest-Neuro Imaging, Body Imaging, MSK
Membership

• European Society of skeletal radiologists
• Musculoskeletal Society of India.