Murali (Mal) Rajaraman
Associate Professor

Email: Bessie.Duplissea@nshealth.ca
Phone: 902-473-6405
Fax: 902-473-7205
Mailing Address:
Department of Radiation Oncology
Dalhousie University
Rm 2200, Main Floor, NSCC
5820 University Avenue
Halifax, B3H 1V7
Dalhousie University
Rm 2200, Main Floor, NSCC
5820 University Avenue
Halifax, B3H 1V7
Clinical sites
Thyroid, Head & Neck, Sarcoma, Lung and Skin Cancer
Education
- BSc (Dalhousie University)
- MD (Dalhousie University)
- FRCPC (Dalhousie University)
- Radiation Oncology Fellowship (Princess Margaret Hospital)
Research interests
- Neosis
- Clinical and Research Databases
- Thyroid Cancer
- PET/CT Scan utilization in Oncology and Clinical trials
Academic interests
- Undergraduate and postgraduate medical education
- Thyroid Cancer Education and Awareness for patients, public and health care professionals.
Awards and honours
- 2010 Cancer Care Nova Scotia Innovation Excellence Award (Head & Neck Cancer Site Team)
- 2009 Cancer Care Nova Scotia Excellence in Patient Care Award (Interdisciplinary Thyroid Oncology Clinic)
Recent publications
- Kim, M. S., Sheridan, M., Rajaraman, M., Hollenhorst, H., Caissie, A., Mahmoud-Ahmed, A., ... & Wilke, D. (2023). The impact of national holidays on postoperative radiotherapy of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology, 100668.
- Caissie, A., Mierzwa, M., Fuller, C. D., Rajaraman, M., Lin, A., MacDonald, A., ... & Mayo, C. (2022). Head and Neck Radiotherapy Patterns of Practice Variability Identified as a Challenge to Real-World Big Data: results from the Learning from Analysis of Multicentre Big Data Aggregation (LAMBDA) Consortium. Advances in Radiation Oncology, 100925.
- Boucher, A., Brierley, J., Ezzat, S., Herscovitch, K., Ho, C., Hotte, S., Joseph, S., Krzyzanowska, M., Lamond, N., Massicotte, M.H., Rachinsky, I., Rajaraman, M., Ruether,D., Sikora, L., Winquist, E., Wiseman, S.M., (2021). Canadian consensus statement on the management of radioactive iodine–resistant differentiated thyroid cancer, Oral Oncology, Volume 121.
- Urquhart, R., Kendell, C., Geldenhuys, L., Ross, A., Rajaraman, M., Folkes, A., ... & Porter, G. A. (2019). The role of scientific evidence in decisions to adopt complex innovations in cancer care settings: a multiple case study in Nova Scotia, Canada. Implementation Science, 14(1), 1-12.
Other interests and achievements
- Medical Informatics
- Field Hockey