Qualification
MBBS, MD, DM, ECMO, MRCP (SCE) (UK)Languages
English Hindi KannadaWork Experience
10 Years Experience Overall (4 years as specialist)Research Experience
Research Interests• Colorectal cancer and immunotherapy
• Haematolymphoid Malignancies
• Breast malignancies – Early detection and treatment in a resource-limited setting
• Pain and palliative care in oncology
• Depression management in terminal cancer patients.
Clinical Research Experience
• Co-Investigator for the study titled “A Phase 3
Open-label
Randomised Study of Datopotamab Deruxtecan (Dato-DXd) Versus Investigator’s Choice of Chemotherapy in Patients who are not candidates for PD-1/PD-L1 Inhibitor Therapy in First-line Locally Recurrent Inoperable or Metastatic Triple-negative Breast Cancer (TROPION-Breast02)” Sponsored by Astrazeneca.
Awards & Achivements
• Co-authored an original research paper – ‘Estimation of Vit B12 and Vit D levels in Type2 DM patients on Metformin.’ Published in IJSR Vol 4Issue 2 February 2015.
• Won 1st place for best original research – “Chronic Mesenteric ischaemia in patients with Type 2 Diabetes mellitus” at All India physicians annual conference in January 2016 at Hyderabad
India.
• Won 3rd place for All India Oncology fellow s quiz on colorectal cancer – November 2017
• Co-authored a paper – “ Role of pre-operative CA 125 levels in predicting the DFS and OS in epithelial ovarian cancer”
published in IJRCOG
January 2018
• Certified with ECMO after clearing the ESMO exam in September 2019
• Co-authored a paper Chronic Mesenteric ischaemia in patients with Type 2 Diabetes mellitus published in November 2021 in IJSR vol 10
issue 11
• Certified with MRCP UK(SCE) September
20222.
Area of Interest
• Solid organ and blood cancers in adults and children• Precision oncology
• Immunotherapy
• Preventive oncology
• Integrative oncology.