Dr. Padma Subramanyam

Dr. Padma Subramanyam is a renowned Nuclear medicine specialist with pioneering work in lymphoscintigraphy, Sentinel node imaging and biopsy and vascularised lymph node transfer imaging. She has close to 30 years’ experience in diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine and works in conjunction with Dr. P. Shanmuga Sundaram in all departmental activities and clinical research work. She has been the past President of Society of Nuclear Medicine India – Southern chapter and continues to popularise and remain in mainstream nuclear medicine activities in India.

She is also an ardent teacher and successfully trained many young doctors in Nuclear medicine during their DNB & MD training programmes and also doctors from allied specialities posted in Nuclear medicine from other universities. She has visited many international Nuclear medicine centres in USA, Europe, Australia and Malaysia to share her knowledge and experience.

• Gamma Camera Imaging
• Nuclear Oncology with Special Emphasis on PETCT and PETMR Reporting
• Thyroid Cancer Management
• Liver Cancer Radionuclide Therapy (TARE)
• Systemic Radionuclide Therapy for Prostate Cancer & NET (Neuro Endocrine Tumours)

• English
• Hindi
• Tamil
• Telugu
• Bengali
• Malayalam

• Nuclear Medicine - In-Charge Medial Officer: Bombay Port Trust Hospital, Wadala, Mumbai Aug 1995 – May 1997
• Asst Professor & Head, Nuclear Medicine Dept, Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences & University (Teaching Post), Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India – From June 1997 - Jan 2000.
• Joined Amrita Institute of Medical sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, Kerala as Consultant Nuclear Medicine in Jan 2000 & continuing till date.
• Recognized Teacher for training DNB (Diplomate of National Board) Nuclear medicine students which was started in 2008 at Amrita Institute, Kochi.
• First NM department in India in the private sector to be recognized by MCI to start post graduate training MD Nuclear medicine programme since 2012 – teacher for MD Nuclear medicine

New NM Procedures Introduced

• Axillary reverse mapping scintigraphy – a new, innovative technique done to avoid lymphedema in early cases of breast cancers.
• SLN imaging in various oncological settings (Head/ Neck, Gynecological, Breast, Melanoma, squamous cell Ca skin, GIT) - Standardising the procedure and implementing it in clinical practice. Established AIMS, Kochi as an Apex institute for sentinel node imaging and biopsy programmes
• Oropharyngeal (swallowing) scintigraphy with differing bolus infusion methods which has been standardised – for swallowing dysfunction esp in videofluruoscopy negative post RT patients.
• Standardization of PETMR protocols for higher patient throughput

• 2019 : EACV1 – European Association of CardioVascular Imaging & Nuclear cardiology certification 2019, Lisbon, Portugal
• 2015 : FANMB, Awarded Fellow of Asian Nuclear Medicine board examination, Jeju, South Korea.
• 2010 : Fellowship in PETCT & Theranostics, Melbourne Australia
• 2015 : DNB - Diplomate of National Board (Nuclear medicine) National Board of Exams, New Delhi
• 1995 : Diploma in Radiation Medicine (DRM), BARC, TMH, Mumbai Bombay university
• 1990 : MBBS from SCB medical college, Cuttack, under Utkal University.

Highlights

• Clinical Professor of Dept. of Nuclear medicine & Molecular Imaging, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita university, Cochin since Jan 2000.
• Practicing diagnostic & therapeutic nuclear medicine for the past 30 years with keen interest in Nuclear oncology & Nuclear cardiology, performing over 1000 cases per month.
• Past President of Society of Nuclear Medicine India – Southern chapter (2005-06)
• Editorial board member of IJNM and several other journals.
• Examiner for MD Nuclear medicine program for many universities.
• Prof Arcot Gajaraj Best Paper Award presented at South chapter annual conference of Society of Nuclear Medicine India at Cochin, Kerala, India in 2000.
• Publications (in National & International journals) - 135
• Guest lectures in multiple national Nuclear med conferences
• Winner of Multiple Travel grant awards by European society of Nuclear medicine, International nuclear cardiology society, IAEA, WFNMB, AOFNBM
• Awarded Best regional (Asia Pacific) paper award in ICNC conference Lisbon, Portugal, May 2019
• Invited international faculty for National conference of Nuclear medicine (NCNM), at Johor Bahru. Malaysia 2022 & Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia 2023

Achievements

Recipient of multiple international scientific awards for research papers presented in conferences. Few are listed below.

• 2005 : Travel grant for scientific research presentation at Asian Regional Coop Council on Nuclear Medicine annual conference, at Bangkok, Thailand
• 2005 : Travel grant for scientific research presentation at International Conference on Nuclear Cardiology ICNC Lisbon Portugal
• 2006 : IAEA Travel grant for scientific research presentation at World Federation of Nuclear Medicine & Biology (WFNMB) IPET Annual Conference, Seoul, South Korea, Title of paper “Assessment of silent ischemia by stress myocardial perfusion scintigraphy in essential hypertensives with / without type 2 diabetes.
• 2007 : Travel grant award by European Society of Cardiology (ECS) to present research at International Conference on Nuclear Cardiology ICNC Prague, Czech Republic, title “Role of nuclear medicine imaging in cardiac transplants”
• 2007:  IAEA grant Travel grant award by European Society Cardiology to attend International Conference on Nuclear Cardiology, ICNC Prague, Czech Republic - for “"Cardiac innervation scintigraphy”
• 2007 : Travel Grant winner of Asian Regional Cooperation Council on Nuclear Medicine (ARCCNM) in Bangkok Thailand for presenting “Incremental value of Technetium MIBI SPECT, MR fusion imaging in evaluation of intracranial space occupying lesions”
• 2011 : Invited guest speaker for British Nuclear Medicine Annual conference, Brighton
• 2011 – 2019 : Attended and presented original scientific papers in SNMMI, USA, EANM, ASNC, IAEA conferences
• 2019 : ESA-SRB-AOTA 2019 annual conference : Presented research paper ‘Role of FDG PETCT WB imaging in followup evaluation of Medullary thyroid carcinoma patients with high serum Calcitonin’ levels at Sydney, Australia
• Publications (in national & international): Total 132 (includes NM chapters in Books, Review articles, Original articles & Case reports)

Society Membership

• Society of Nuclear Medicine India (SNMI) Life membership
• Society of Nuclear Medicine - Southern chapter life membership
• Association of Nuclear Medicine Physicians of India (ANMPI) Life membership
• European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) Membership
• Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging (SNMMI, US) member
• American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) member
• Asia Oceania Federation of Nuclear Medicine and Biology, AOFNMB 2015
• WARMTH, World Association of Radiopharmaceutical and Molecular Therapy member
• Member of Indian thyroid society (ITS).