Dr. Ram Madhavan

He began his career at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, where he worked extensively with stereotactic radiotherapy and robotic radiosurgery for liver and lung tumours and brain metastases. He was part of the team that published the first Indian data on stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for liver tumours. He also served on the Task Force Committee of the Indian National Association for the Study of the Liver (INASL), which formulated the national consensus guidelines on hepatocellular carcinoma. During this period, he was a founding member of the Young Radiation Oncology Forum (YROF), the academic wing of the AROI Kerala Chapter, and was its President from 2017 to 2019.

His research interest lies in how radiation shapes the immune response. He is part of the Rad Immune Lab, an interdepartmental team that brings clinicians and laboratory scientists together to address this question and train the next generation of physician-scientists. His goal is to become a physician-scientist who connects what he sees in the clinic with what he learns in the laboratory. He has around 40 publications in national and international peer-reviewed indexed journals and has authored book chapters on breast and gynaecological cancers. In October 2025, he presented at the International FIGO Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, proposing that hydroureteronephrosis in carcinoma cervix be recognised as a separate stage. The proposal drew on survival outcomes from Cancer Institute [WIA], a quaternary cancer hospital in India.

Teaching and shaping practice are central to his work. Alongside mentoring residents, he has been faculty of the AROI Teaching Course on Gynaecological Malignancies, endorsed by ESTRO in 2025 and 2026. He was a member of the Expert Committee for the National AROI Radiation Therapy Guidelines for Carcinoma Endometrium and Vulva (2026). He was also faculty at SURaQSA 2025 (Standardised Unified Radiotherapy Quality Assurance) at Tata Medical Centre, Kolkata, which developed consensus recommendations for radiation therapy in cancers of the cervix and endometrium.

He received the Best Intern Award during his undergraduate medical training in 2008, and the AROI Travel Fellowship Award in 2012 from the AROI Tamil Nadu and Puducherry Chapter. In 2013 he was awarded the Tamil Nadu Dr M.G.R. Medical University Medal for securing the highest marks in the MD Radiotherapy University Examinations. His training includes:

• The ICMR Workshop on Multi-omics at the Cancer Institute (WIA) (2025)

• The ICMR Biomedical Research Course (2022)

• CyberKnife and Tomotherapy techniques at University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany (2018)

• The Basic Course in Medical Education Technologies (2017)

• An observership at Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai (2012)

• The IAPC Certificate Course in Essentials of Palliative Care (2011)