Dr. Shaleen Kumar, Professor and Head        A graduate and postgraduate (1991) from King George's Medical College, Lucknow, he trained as a senior resident at the Tata Memorial Hospital, Bombay. He joined on the faculty in 1996. He has 22 publications to his credit, and has been a commonwealth fellow. Principal areas of interest and publications have been in chemo-radiation protocols in head-neck and esophageal cancers. His current area of interest relates to brain tumors including conformal radiotherapy, brachytherapy and esophageal cancer.

 

Dr. Punita Lal, Associate Professor.       A graduate from Maulana Azad Medical College. She did her postgraduate in Radiotherapy from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi in 1992. Thereafter, she obtained the Dip.N.B degree in Radiotherapy in 1995. After completing her residency program at AIIMS in 1996, she worked as a Senior Research Associate for 1 year. In December 1997, she joined this department as an Assistant Professor. She has 25 National and International publications and has been awarded ICRETT fellowship in 1997, when she did a project on static MLC. Currently she is sanctioned with an external mural project of 3D CRT for head and neck cancers. Her keen interests lie in the field of clinical head & neck and gynaecological oncology which includes brachytherapy, IMRT and Breast cancer.

 

Dr. Neeraj Rastogi, Associate Professor.      He obtained graduation and post-graduation in Radiotherapy from King George's Medical College, Lucknow. He has done Senior Residencyfrom All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi and SGPGI, Lucknow. Thereafter, he worked as Senior Research Associate at SGPGI and then joined as facultyat Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna in 1996 and established full fledged Cancer Treatment and Research Centre. Later on again he joined this institute in faculty position in 1998.He has 16 International and National publications. His areas of interest are gastrointestinal, paediatric radiation oncology and brachytherapy

 

Dr. K.J. Maria Das, Assistant Professor.    A graduate in physics from Madurai Kamraj University, Madurai, did his post-graduation in Medical Physics from Anna University, Madras. Subsequently, he obtained a Medical Radiological Safety Officer certificate from DRP, BARC, Mumbai. Following a 2-year stint as a Medical Physicist at the M.D Oswal Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation, Ludhiana, he joined SGPGI in June 1991 as a Medical Physicist and is currently as Assistant Professor (Medical Physics) and the Radiological Safety Officer of the department. He was awarded Ph.D in Physics (1999) from Lucknow University and joined on the role of faculty since September 2004. A member of AAPM, ESTRO, AMPI, IARP and AROI, he has received technical training at few centers in Europe, UK and Germany. He has been awarded the ICRETT fellowship by the UICC to work on the project "PACS in Radiotherapy" at Osaka University, Japan in 1994. Author and co-author of the best paper awards in medical physics and radiotherapy, he has over 32 publications to his credit, 15 of which are in international journals. His major areas of interest revolve around 3-D planning and dose distribution analysis, HDR brachytherapy and IMRT. He has a major contribution in the development of the existing 2-D and 3-D indigenous treatment planning systems currently in use at the SGPGI, besides being involved in the calibration of the indigenous linear accelerators at Thakurpukur, Calcutta and Bharat Electronics Limited, Ghaziabad.

 

	Dr. Shalini Singh, Assistant Professor.   She obtained graduation  from  GSVM Medical College, Kanpur  and post-graduation in Radiotherapy and Senior Residency from Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow. Thereafter, she worked as Lecturer / Assistant Professor at King George Medical University, Lucknow since 2002. Later on again she joined this institute in faculty position in 2004. She has  both international and national publications and was won best paper awards in radiation therapy. Her major areas of interest revolve around chemo radiation protocols in head and neck malignancies, Breast cancer, brain tumors & Gynaecological cancer, conformal radiation therapy & brachytherapy. Besides she has interest in various tumor biology aspects pertaining to translational research.
	Dr. Sushma Agrawal, Assistant Professor.      She obtained graduation from MGIMS, Wardha and post-graduation in Radiotherapy from BHU, Varanasi. She has done Senior Residency from Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow. Thereafter, she worked as Junior Consultant at Mahavir Cancer Santhan, Patna and then joined as faculty at Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna in 2001. Later on again she joined this institute in faculty position in 2004. She has been awarded ICRETT fellowship in 2002 in stereotactic radiotherapy. She has both International and National publications. His areas of interest are gastrointestinal, paediatric radiation oncology, breast cancer, lung cancer, head & neck cancer, brachytherapy and 3-D conformal radiotherapy.
	Mr. Anil Kumar Maurya, Medical Physicist.     He has his graduation and post-graduation in  Physics (X-Rays) from Allahabad University, Allahabad. Following a brief stint as Trainee at Regional Cancer Centre, Kamala Nehru Memorial Hospital, Allahabad, he passed Post M. Sc. Diploma in Radiological Physics from BARC, Mumbai in September 2000. He started his professional carrier as Medical Physicist at M. D. Oswal Cancer Treatment & Research Foundation, Ludhiana. Subsequently he worked as Senior Medical Physicist & Radiological Safety Officer at SRTR Medical College, Ambejogai, Distt. - Beed  and BSR Cancer Hospital & Research Institute, Bhilai during the period 2001 to 2003. He joined back M. D. Oswal Cancer Treatment & Research Foundation, Ludhiana as Senior Medical Physicist in August 2003 and later joined SGPGI in February 2005. He is a life member of AMPI, IARP, ISRP & AROI. He has around five publications in national journals & has presented papers at international and national conferences. His research interests include Brachytherapy, Radiation Dosimetry, Radiobiology, Treatment Planning System, Quality Assurance in Radiotherapy and Radiological Safety & Protection.