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)

Conditions 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

Board Certification

Nuclear Medicine, National Specialist Register, Malaysia

Postgraduate 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

Medical School

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

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