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ARAVIND KUMAR P
32, Block 2, Kavikuil Street, Ashok Nagar, Lawspet, Pondicherry, India - 605008 | [email protected] |
+919489957169
REGISTRATIONS
Tamil Nadu Medical Council, Registration Number# 80497 | 02-March-2007
QUALIFICATIONS
2009- 2012
JAWAHARLAL INSTITUTE OF POST GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION
AND RESEARCH (JIPMER), PONDICHERRY, INDIA
Doctor of Medicine (M.D) – Radiotherapy
2001-2007
JAWAHARLAL INSTITUTE OF POST GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION
AND RESEARCH (JIPMER), PONDICHERRY, INDIA
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S)
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
04/2012 – Present JIPMER, INDIA, one of the five medical institutes of national
importance and is designated center of medical excellence
Senior Resident, full-time, unsupervised
I work in the capacity of a Junior Specialist Physician in the
Department of Radiation Oncology. I was appointed to this
position on a provisional basis from 04/2012 – 06/2012 and on a
permanent basis subsequently.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
 My responsibilities are that of a Radiation and Clinical
Oncologist. They include:
 Performing appropriate staging investigations, planning and
monitoring radiation therapy, deciding chemotherapy
schedules and administering chemotherapy and following
up treated cases.
 Seeing patients at the outpatient clinic as well as consults. I
see up to 40 patients per day and plan 20 new patients per
week independently.
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Participating in resident and technologist training.
Providing palliative care for cancer patients.
Making treatment policy decisions in interdepartmental
tumour board meetings.
Telemedicine treatment decisions and education for
outreach clinics.
PROCEDURES:
 I perform Brachytherapy applications for various sites
independently.
 Radiation modalities at our institution include Conventional
Radiotherapy,
3D-CRT,
IMRT,
IGRT,
VMAT
and
Brachytherapy.
 I perform around 10 brachytherapy applications per week
for various sites.
04/2009 - 05/2012
JIPMER, INDIA, one of the five medical institutes of national
importance and is designated center of medical excellence
Postgraduate Resident, full-time
Supervisor: Dr. K.S. Reddy, Dean and Head of the Department,
JIPMER
 I pursued my 3 year post graduate specialist training in
Clinical oncology which is called Radiotherapy in India.
 The first year consisted of managing the ward,
administration of chemotherapy in the ward, managing
oncological
emergencies,
supportive
care
during
radiotherapy and management of long term complications
of radiotherapy, assisting in the outpatient clinics,
observing and planning basic radiation cases such as
palliative radiotherapy and cervical cancer etc.
 The second year consisted of Intermediate Simulator based
Planning of almost all site-specific malignancies, performing
brachytherapy supervised initially, but independently by
middle of the year and seeing patients in outpatient clinics
and managing daycare chemotherapy.
 The third year consisted of advanced radiotherapy planning
with IMRT, VMAT and IGRT along with Brachytherapy. I was
also a part of the Multidisciplinary Tumor Board meetings
as an active participant. Independent outpatient services
were assigned to me and management of daycare
chemotherapy.
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05/2008 –12/2008 SRI LAKSHMINARAYANA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES,
PONDICHERRY, INDIA
Medical Officer, full time
 My responsibilities included diagnosis and treatment of
patients in the departments of Internal Medicine and
Emergency services
12/2005 - 01/2007 JAWAHARLAL INSTITUTE OF POST GRADUATE MEDICAL RESEARCH
(JIPMER), PONDICHERRY, INDIA
Intern, full time with regular supervision
 One-year mandatory ‘Compulsory Rotatory Internship
Program’ prior to graduation from medical school.
 I worked in the capacity of a junior resident in the following
departments:
Internal Medicine - 2 months, General Surgery &
Orthopaedics - 2 months, Ob/Gyn - 2 months, Community
and Family Medicine - 3 months, Pediatrics & Neonatology 1 month, ENT - 2 weeks, Ophthalmology - 2 weeks,
Emergency Medicine - 2 weeks, Radiology - 2 weeks
AWARDS
03/2009
Obtained 19 th rank in the JIPMER Post Graduate Entrance
examination of approximately 7000 doctors competing for 150
Postgraduate Residency training posts each year
04/2006 - 05/2007 Passed First Class in the University Board Exams in the following
subjects: Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Microbiology,
Pharmacology, Ophthalmology, Community Medicine and General
Surgery
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
06/2014 – present JAWAHARLAL INSTITUTE OF POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION
AND RESEARCH, INDIA
Co- Investigator
Supervisor: Dr. Jagadesan P, M.D.
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Working as a co-investigator in an ongoing study on the
Effect of Radiation treatment on the Quality of Life in
palliative setting
08/2009 – 08/2011 JAWAHARLAL INSTITUTE OF POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION
AND RESEARCH, INDIA
Principal Investigator
Supervisor: Dr. K.S. Reddy, M.D.
 Worked on my postgraduate dissertation which is a
mandatory requirement for award of the M.D. degree. My
research topic was Study of radiation induced DNA damage
in patients with oral cavity cancer on radiotherapy using
comet assay on peripheral blood lymphocytes.
PUBLICATIONS
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles/Abstracts
10/2014
Parthasarathy Vedasoundaram, Aravind Kumar Prasanna, Reddy
KS, Gangothri Selvarajan, Mourougan Sinnatamby, Seenisamy
Ramapandian, Saravanan Kandasamy. Role of high dose rate
interstitial brachytherapy in early and locally advanced squamous
cell carcinoma of buccal mucosa. Springerplus. 2014 Oct 9; 3:590.
doi: 10.1186/2193-1801-3-590.eCollection2014.)
10/2012
P. Aravind Kumar, S. Nandakumar, M Asif, V.Parthasarathy, K. S.
Reddy, Ramachandra Rao, S. Vivekanandam. Comet assay to study
the effect of radiotherapy on the DNA of peripheral blood
lymphocytes in patients with oral cancers. JIPMER Journal of
Oncology. 2012 Oct; 1(1); 27-34.
10/2012
Asif M, Reddy KS, Kumar AP, Vivekanandam S, Vijayaprabhu N.
Dosimetric Comparison of Tandem and Ovoid versus Tandem and
Ring applicators for brachytherapy of cancer cervix. JIPMER
Journal of Oncology. 2012 Oct; 1(1): 20-26.
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CPD
Organized and attended regional Semiannual Continuing Medical
Education meets on the following topics:
 Colorectal Cancer
 Breast Cancer
 Urological Malignancies
 Head and Neck Cancer
 Gynaecologic Malignancies
 Palliative Care
CONFERENCES
2009- 2012
Attended four regional level annual conferences
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Conference of Association of Radiation Oncologists of India
TNPY Chapter; Chennai, India.
AUDIT
04/2011 – 07/2014
DEPARTMENT OF RADIOTHERAPY, JIPMER, INDIA
Member, Clinical Audit Committee
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Weekly audit of Radiotherapy charts to ensure Quality Control in
delivery of Radiation and appropriate Patient Care.
TEACHING AND TRAINING EXPERIENCE
04/2010 – Present DEPARTMENT OF RADIOTHERAPY, JIPMER, INDIA
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Responsible for Junior Specialty Registrar teaching
I take classes in anatomy, pathology, cancer biology,
radiobiology and relevant clinical oncology applications for
four hours each week.
Radiotherapy technologist training
I train the technologists in basic oncology and therapeutic
principles of site-specific malignancies for two hours each
week.
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Procedures Performed
Central Venous Catheter Placement, Bone Marrow Aspiration and Biopsy, USG guided
FNAC and Biopsy, Cervical Biopsy, Intracavitary Brachytherapy for Carcinoma Cervix,
Interstitial Brachytherapy for Head and Neck Cancer, Breast Cancer, Soft tissue
Sarcoma, Penile Cancer and Cervical Cancer, Intraluminal Brachytherapy for
Esophageal Cancer, Superficial Mold Brachytherapy for Skin cancer and Early stage
Oral Cavity Cancer, Extra Corporeal Irradiation for Osteosarcoma
MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE
06/ 2007 - 12/2007 COMMUNITY CARE CENTER (NGO), PONDICHERRY, INDIA
Physician
 Organizing camps- “Truck Points”- for screening and
treatment of sexually transmitted diseases in truck drivers
 Organizing advertising campaigns to spread public
awareness
 Health education and counseling
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
05/2009 - Present
RURAL CANCER CONTROL CAMP, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA,
KARAIKAL, INDIA.
Oncologist
 This is a part of an initiative to bring specialist health care
to rural and underserved areas of the country.
 I have been a part of quarterly camps to rural areas to
examine and treat cancer cases and refer them for
additional treatment to tertiary care centers if needed.
 Cancer prevention and Health Education activities are also
conducted during these camps.
06/ 2007 - 12/2007 COMMUNITY CARE CENTER (NGO), PONDICHERRY, INDIA
Physician, part time
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Palliative and supportive care for patients with end stage
AIDS
Counseling of HIV infected patients
Screening and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases in
truck drivers
Sex education and contraceptive devices
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LANGUAGES, INTERESTS AND OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Native: Tamil | Fluent: English| Beginner: Hindi
Interests: Travelling, Motorcycling, Physics and Indian Philosophy, Foreign Language
Films, Indian and Western Classical Music, Audiophile grade Acoustic Equipment
evaluation
Obtained a rank of 10 in the JIPMER MBBS Common Entrance Test for selection to
Medical School among 10,000 candidates
Obtained 3 rd rank in the UNESCO National Level General Knowledge Test held annually
with participation from schools all over India
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