Dr. K R Muralidhar

Dr. Muralidhar has over 26 years of illustrious experience in Clinical Operations related to Radiation, Planning & Commissioning of New Radiation Therapy facilities, formulating implementation protocols and Radiation Safety. He is also a PhD Guide at various universities. He is an Editorial and Review Board Member of more than five scientific journals. Dr. Muralidhar has also conducted several conferences, workshops and has presented/published papers on Medical Physics both nationally and internationally.

Dr. Muralidhar started his career as Medical Physicist with Manipal Hospital, Bangalore and later worked with organizations such as Christian Cancer Center, Guntur Cancer Center and Indo-American Cancer Institute & Research Center as Chief Medical Physicist & Radiation Safety Officer. His last assignment was with American Oncology Institute, Hyderabad (since May 2011) as Chief Medical Physicist & Radiation Safety Officer.

During his career, Dr. Muralidhar was instrumental in Planning & Commissioning of state-of-the-art equipment and units that are first-of-its-kind in India such as TrueBeam Linear Accelerator, Elekta Synergy Linear Accelerator, Elekta compact LA, Intraoperative Radiotherapy Unit, Big Bore Computed Tomography Simulator, Medical Cyclotron, XIO planning systems , Mammosite Treatment, EMR , Pipspro for TG-142, and Calypso system.

Dr. Muralidhar has done his M.Sc. Tech from JNTU, Hyderabad, Advanced PG Diploma in Radiological Physics from BARC, Mumbai and then went on to complete his M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Physics from Nagarjuna University. He has also completed his UICC Fellowship from MD Anderson Cancer Institute, USA and accomplished IAEA Fellowship from IAEA, Vienna, and MHA from Singapore.