Murali (Mal) Rajaraman

Associate Professor

NSHA-0017-WEB

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
 

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