Biography

Dr Uma Ravishankar underwent her undergraduate training (MBBS) at Madras Medical College, Chennai, and graduated in 1984. She trained in nuclear medicine at Radiation Medicine Centre, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, from 1990 -1991, and at Batra Hospital, New Delhi, from 1991-1993. She worked at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences for a year before being appointed as a Consultant in Nuclear Medicine at the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, in 1996. She presently heads the department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging which has a SPECT gamma camera, DEXA scanner, PET CT and PET MRI. She has a longstanding interest in SPECT imaging, thyroid imaging, oncologic imaging with PET CT, and therapy procedures for thyroid cancer, prostate cancer, and neuroendocrine tumours.

Areas of Expertise

Nuclear Medicine
Gamma camera SPECT Imaging
PET CT Imaging, PET MRI Imaging
DEXA Imaging

Theranostics

Radioiodine therapy for thyroid Cancer
Lutetium DOTA therapy for neuroendocrine tumours
Lutetium PSMA therapy for Prostate cancer
Alpha Therapy

Education & Training

Undergraduate training from Madras Medical College, Chennai.
Post Graduate training from RMC, Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai.
Training in imaging of Infection and Inflammation and Nuclear Cardiology, SGH Singapore.
Radionuclide techniques in the management of diabetic nephropathy –Seoul-Korea.
Workshop on scintimammography and sentinel node detection, Jakarta, Indonesia
Advanced training in PET imaging, Munich, Germany

Professional Work

Head & Senior Consultant, Nuclear Medicine at Apollo Cancer Centre, Delhi
Senior Consultant – Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital