Dr. Sellam Karunanidhi

About Doctor DR. SELLAM KARUNANIDHI

• Dr Sellam,
  a university gold medalist, secured his MBBS from Kilpauk Medical College, Chennai.
• He pursued his MD in Nuclear Medicine at AIIMS, New Delhi with a career span of 6 years of experience in PET/CT oncology.
• His areas of special interests are PET/CT (Oncology, Neurology, Cardiology), Nuclear Cardiology (MPI- Myocardial Perfusion Imaging), Radio- Iodine Therapy (I-131 for Cancer Thyroid, Graves’ disease, Toxic Nodular Goiter & AFTN), Bone Scan, and Renal Scans (DTPA & DMSA).
• He has published about 95 research articles in various indexed international journals till date.
• He has been awarded the ‘AIIMS Excellence Award- 2012’ and the prestigious ‘Asian Young Investigator Award-2014’ by the ‘Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine’ for his contribution in the field of research at a very young age.
• He has also presented papers in international conferences conducted at Lyon, France and Osaka, Japan.

Adding to his credits, he is one among the first five Indians and first twenty-five young Asian Nuclear Medicine physicians to have been certified as a Fellow of the Asian Nuclear Medicine Board (FANMB).