FACULTY
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DR P SHANMUGA SUNDARAM

Head & Clinical Professor
Department of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences
Cochin, India
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1. MBBS – 1989 –Madurai Medical College, Madurai, Tamil Nadu. India
2. DRM - Diploma in Radiation Medicine 1995, Bhaba Atomic Research Centre   (BARC) Mumbai, India
3. DNB - Diplomate of National board New Delhi India (Nuclear medicine) 1997 
4. MNAMS – Awarded Member of National Academy of Medical Sciences New Delhi India 1997
5. FANMB – Awarded Fellow of Asian Nuclear Medicine board 2015
6. EACV1 – Got European Association of CardioVascular Imaging & Nuclear cardiology certification 2019 Presently:
· Working as Head & Professor of Dept. of Nuclear medicine & Molecular Imaging, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, a tertiary care university hospital  Cochin since Jan 2000.  Experience: 27 yrs
· Running Post graduate nuclear medicine courses (DNB, MD) since 2006.
·  First university hospital in India to have PET MRI (2018) services.

Fellowships:
​1. Nuclear cardiology fellowship in UCLA, LA, USA, 2002
2. Hybrid imaging fellowship in Katherine Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany 2004.
3. PET CT imaging & Theranostics fellowship in Peter MacCallum cancer centre, Melbourne, Australia 2010
4. PET MRI fellowship at Mayo Clinic Rochester US Dec 2017

Achievements:
· Recipient of young investigator award from Indo American society of Nuclear medicine IASNM in 2002 in Los Angeles, USA,
· Multiple Travel grant awards from: ARCCNM, IAEA, WFNMB.
· Publications (in national & international): Total 147
· Editorial board member of Indian Journal of Nuclear medicine
· Past President (2015-17) of Association of Nuclear medicine physicians of India, ANMPI