Dr. Surya P Potharaju is the Consultant and Administrative Head of Nuclear Medicine. As a nuclear medicine physician he is involved in several research projects related to Positron Emission Tomography.

As a PET fellow he was directly involved in the validation of PET-CT scanner and fusion technology. To his credit, he has many publications and presentations in reputed international journals and conferences.

Current Appointment

  • Consultant – Nuclear Medicine in Gurgaon, India

Previous Appointments

  • Head of Department, Apollo Gleneagles PET-CT Center, Hyderabad, India

Education and Training

Residency and Fellowship

  • July 2000 – June 2003: PET Nuclear Medicine Fellowship and Research Associate, University of Tennessee at Knoxville TN, USA
  • July 1998 – June 2000: Nuclear Medicine residency, University Wisconsin  Madison, USA
  • July 1997 – June 1998: Transitional Year Residency, Case Western Reserve University, at Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Cleveland OH, USA

Medical School

  • 1982: M.B.B.S. from Guntur Medical College, Nagarjuna University

Honors and Awards

  • Leon Ginzburg Award, 1996, presented to the most outstanding resident in the Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY
  • 1996 – Resident achievement award, presented by the Society Of Laparoendoscopic surgeons
  • Best Teacher Award 2001-2002. Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Miami School of Medicine

Professional Membership

  • Academy of Molecular Imaging: Young Investigator Abstract
  • University of Tennessee: Department of Radiology Travel Scholarship to Barcelona

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