Dr Dharmendra Harichandra

Procedure Focus:

• Bone and Joint Diagnosis and Treatment
• Cancer Treatment
• Indium-111 (octreotide) Scans
• Iodine-131 MIBG Scans
• Myocardial Perfusion
• Nuclear Imaging
• PET Scan (positron emission tomography)
• Radioiodine Therapy
• Sirtex (Y-90 microspheres) Therapy
• Strontium-89 Therapy
• Zevalin Therapy (ibritumomab tiuxetan)

Condition Treated:

Multicentric Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Non-Resectable Liver Metastatic Disease, Refractory lymphoma, Thyroid Cancer, Thyrotoxicosis

Memberships & Associations:

• Member, Malaysian Medical Association (MMA)
• Internal Medicine & Nuclear Medicine Physician
• National Specialist Registry, Malaysia

Post Graduate Clinical Training:

• Visiting Fellow, (Korea Institute of radiological and Medical Sciences (KIRAMS), South Korea, 2005
• Training Attachment, Royal Melbourne Hospital and Royal Austin Veteran Hospital, Australia, 2004
• Visiting IAEA Fellow, Seoul National University Hospital, South Korea, 2004
• Regional Thyroid Cancer Workshop, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to Philippines, 2001

Board Certification:

Nuclear Medicine, National Specialist Register, Malaysia

Awards:

National Innovation Award 2008, Ministry of Health, 1st Prize for "A Low-Cost Phantom for Routine QC Testing of Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) Cameras”, Excellence Service Certificate 2004 & 2008, University Malaya, 2007

Medical School:

MD, University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia, 1994, Master of Internal Medicine, University of Malaya, 2001