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Assoc Prof Ravindran Kanesvaran
Deputy Head and Senior Consultant
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Dr. Kanesvaran specializes in Medical Oncology, with particular focus on Uro-Oncology, Thoracic-Oncology, and Geriatric Medicine.
Deputy Head and Senior Consultant
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Dr Ravindran Kanesvaran is a Senior Consultant/Deputy Head in the Division of Medical Oncology of the National Cancer Centre Singapore. He also holds the positions of Associate Professor at Duke-NUS Medical School and clinical senior lecturer at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore.
Dr Kanesvaran is actively involved in graduate medical education and is a core faculty member of the Medical Oncology Senior Residency Program and the Singhealth Internal Medicine Residency Program.
He completed his medical oncology speciality training in the National Cancer Centre Singapore and then went on to complete a fellowship in genitourinary oncology (GU) and geriatric oncology in Duke Cancer Institute in North Carolina, USA on a Healthcare Manpower Development Program (HMDP) scholarship awarded by the Ministry of Health Singapore.
Dr Kanesvaran's research interests include GU oncology and geriatric oncology, and he has published in several well-known peer reviewed journals, such as Journal of Clinical Oncology and Lancet Oncology.
Dr Kanesvaran is the recipient of numerous awards and accolades, including the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO GU) Merit Award 2009, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) scholar-in-training Award 2010 and European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) fellowship award 2012. He is the current President of the Singapore Society of Oncology (SSO) and the Singapore Geriatric Oncology Society.
He has been appointed as European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) Faculty 2015-2016 and serves on the Scientific and Education Committee and as the National Representative for Singapore in the International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG). In 2014, Dr Kanesvaran was awarded the National Representative of the Year SIOG award.
