Dr Sudhakar Kundapur Venkatesh

Senior Consultant, Diagnostic Imaging, NUH      Assistant Professor, Diagnostic Radiology, NUS

 

Dr. Venkatesh graduated from Bangalore Medical College, Bangalore University, India. He received training in radiology at Lady Hardinge Medical College, Delhi University, Delhi and later at SGPGIMS, Lucknow, India. In late 2004, he joined as a faculty in the department of Diagnostic Radiology, NUS. Dr. Venkatesh is interested in abdominal imaging and in particular hepatobiliary imaging. Dr.Venkatesh specializes in body imaging and is a trained interventional radiologist. He has been instrumental in bringing the MR Elastography technique to NUH after receiving training at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. He also performs basic interventional procedures and specializes in abdominal interventions, in particular liver interventions. Dr. Venkatesh is a keen researcher and has received several research grants including two individual research grants from NMRC Singapore. He is the research director for the department of Diagnostic Imaging. He also serves as a member of the institutional review board for the National Health Care Group, Singapore. He is a well-known lecturer and has been invited to speak at many regional and international radiology conferences. Recently he was the key note speaker for the New Zealand chapter of RANZCR2010 congress held at Queenstown, New Zealand and chairman of the scientific committee, ASEAN Association of Radiology Conference 2011. He is also the founding member of the Emergency Radiology Chapter of Asia Oceania Congress of Radiology.

 

Education and Fellowships

MBBS (Bangalore University), MD (Delhi University), FRCR (UK), Advanced MRI Research Fellowship at Mayo Clinic (MN, USA)

 

Specialty Interests 

• Liver imaging
• MR Elastography
• Stomach cancer
• Diffuse and focal liver diseases
• Interventional oncology

 

Awards and Honours

• Young Radiologist Award & Best Research Paper, Indian Radiological and Imaging Association, 2000
• Young Radiologist Award, Singapore Radiological Society, 2004
• International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Clinical Fellow, 2004
• Best Scientific Paper, European Congress of Radiology, 2005
• Magna cum Laude, European Congress of Radiology, 2006
• Best Scientific Poster Award, Singapore Radiological Society, 2006
• Fellowship Award, Asia Oceania Congress of Radiology, 2006
• China Medical Board Fellowship Award, 2007
• William Nagendank New Investigator Award in Cancer Imaging, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2007
• First Prize, A Grand Challenge II, MICCAI, 2008
• Magna cum Laude, European Congress of Radiology, 2008
• Best Scientific Paper Award, European Congress of Radiology, 2008
• Alexander R Margulis First Time Presenter Award, Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology, 2008
• NMRC- IRG grant for MR Elastography of Liver
• Winner of Certificate of Merit & Excellence in Design Award, RSNA, 2009
• Best Scientific Presentation, Asian Congress of Abdominal Radiology, 2009
• Cum Laude Award, Society for Body CT and MR, 2009
• Best Scientific Paper Award (Abdominal Viscera-solid organs), ECR, 2010
• AOCR Fellowship award- 2010

• NMRC- IRG Grant for Multiparametric imaging of renal transplants

 

Professional Memberships

• Radiological Society of North America
• European Society of Radiology
• Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology
• European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology
• Singapore Radiological Society

• Indian Radiological and Imaging Association

 

Selected Publications (out of 55)

1. Venkatesh SK, Yin M, Glockner JF, Takahashi N, Araoz PA, Talwalkar JA, Ehman RL. MR elastography of liver tumors: preliminary results. AJR Am J Roentgenol.2008;190(6):1534-40.
2. Yin M, Talwalkar JA, Venkatesh SK, Glaser K, Chen J, Manduca A, Ehman RL. Dynamic Postprandial Hepatic Stiffness Augmentation Assessed with MR Elastography in Patients with Chronic Liver Disease. AJR Am Journal of Roentgenology 2011; 197:64-70.
3. Alsaif HS, Venkatesh SK, Chan DS, Archuleta S. CT appearances of pyogenic liver abscesses caused by klebsiella penumoniae. Radiology. 2011; 260:129-38.
4. Venkatesh SK. CT pulmonary angiography for pulmonary embolism: role beyond diagnosis? Venkatesh SK. Int J Clin Pract. 2011;65 (171):iii-v.
5. Zhou JY, Wong DW, Ding F, Venkatesh SK, Tian Q, Qi YY, Xiong W, Liu JJ, Leow WK. Liver tumour segmentation using contrast-enhanced multi-detector CT data: performance benchmarking of three semi-automated methods. Eur Radiol. 2010 Jul;20(7):1738-48.
6. Sandrasegaran K, Venkatesh SK. Imaging of liver diseases. Practical hepatic pathology: a diagnostic approach liver. Saxena R(ed); 182-210.