I am Dr. Azmi Saundarya, a Radiation Oncologist with over 8 years of experience in Oncology.
After completing my MBBS, I specialized in Radiation Oncology, earning my Diploma in Medical Radiotherapy (DMRT) from Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and my Diplomate in National Board (DNB – Radiation Oncology) from Apollo Specialty Hospital, Chennai. I also underwent one-year training in pain and palliative medicine through the Global Fellowship Program in Palliative Medicine by Pallium India (2024 batch).
I had the privilege of observing advanced brachytherapy procedures and image-guided IMRT on Tomotherapy and Cyberknife at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, California, USA, under the mentorship of Dr. AM Nisar Syed.
Affiliations And Memberships:
- Member of the Tamilnadu Medical Council, Nov 2009 till date.
- Member of the Indian Medical Council, Nov 2009 till date.
- Member of the Association of Radiation Oncologists of India.
- Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates Certification - 2014.
Clinical Expertise:
- Breast and Gynecological Malignancies
- Head and Neck Cancer
- Thoracic Malignancies
- Gastrointestinal Malignancies
- CNS Malignancies
- Soft Tissue Sarcomas
- Skin malignancies
- Benign conditions like keloids
Proficient in various advanced radiotherapy modalities, including:
- 3DCRT (Three-Dimensional Conformal Radiotherapy)
- IMRT (Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy)
- IGRT (Image-Guided Radiotherapy)
- Arc Therapy
- Cyberknife and Linac-based SRS (Stereotactic Radiosurgery)
- Extra-Cranial SBRT (Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy)
- Brachytherapy
- Total Body Irradiation (TBI)
- Total Skin Electron Therapy (TSET)
- Pain and palliative care
Conferences / Cme Attended :
- 4th Annual Global cancer summit – CONVERGE 2017; Mumbai
- INDO-UK ONCOLOGY SUMMIT – December 2017; Chennai
- AROI-TN&PY 37th Annual Conference 2022; Chennai
- Nuance in Breast Radiotherapy seminar in Indian Breast Meeting April 2024; Mumbai
Educational Courses Attended :
- International Workshop on Precision Radiotherapy – IWPR 2015; Trivandrum
- ESTRO SCHOOL – AROI: course on advanced technologies – December 2015; New Delhi
- CHRISTIE-TMC FRCR course held at Tata Medical Centre, Kolkata; January 2017
Educational Courses Attended :
- Extranodal Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma – An audit from a tertiary cancer center at the AROI meeting Kerala Chapter (November 2016)
Poster Presentation :
- Extranodal Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma – An audit from a tertiary cancer center presented at Joint Conference of ISMPO ISO 2015, Mumbai.
- SBRT in a locally recurrent Bilateral renal cell carcinoma at YROC 2017,Udaipur.
Post Graduate Dissertation :
- Effect of body mass index on acute skin reactions in Breast Carcinoma patients undergoing adjuvant radiation therapy – 2021
