Professor Sivananthan Siva Sarasanandarajah

Professor Sarasanandarajah Sivananthan, B.Sc Hons (Physics), PGDipSc (Distinction, Medical Physics ), MSc (Medical Physics), PGCert (Physics Education) Ph.D (Medical Physics), FACPSEM. is an Internationally recognised Medical Physicist, Scholar & Inventor and is currently working as a Senior Scientist (Senior Medical Physicist) at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Australia, which is one of the leading elite groups of academic cancer centres in the world solely dedicated to cancer treatment, research and education. He also holds an Adjunct Associate Professor position with RMIT University in Australia and Mentor Professor position with Bharathiar University in India. He has over 30 years of clinical and academic training & experience in medical physics at various leading Cancer Institutes and Universities in Australia (Royal Adelaide Hospital & University of Adelaide), New Zealand (Auckland City Hospital & University of Canterbury), Japan (National Institute of Radiological Sciences), Sweden (Lund University Malmo Hospital), Canada (Ottawa Hospital Cancer Institute, National Research Council and Carleton University) and Sri Lanka (University of Jaffna & Teaching Hospital). He has obtained a PhD in medical physics at University of Canterbury in New Zealand as a Canterbury doctoral scholar. His PhD work led to a New Invention, and he was named as an Inventor of two international patents which are currently being commercialised. He is a Fellow of Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine and holds a Registration as a Clinician Scientist in Medical Physics in the United Kingdom. He recently held an International Expert position in Medical Physics (with diplomatic status) at International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in the United Nations in Vienna, Austria where he led various educational and clinical medical physics and radiotherapy projects in Asia, Pacific, Europe and Middle East regions and travelled extensively to many countries to implement these projects as an Expert panel member – Vietnam, Malta, Nepal, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and was responsible for leading and coordinating medical physics educational & training projects involving 21 countries in the Asia, pacific and Arabic regions. He was also responsible for guiding international code of practices, guidelines and coordinated research projects in medical physics involving developed and developing countries. He was also responsible for the IAEA-WHO Radiotherapy dosimetry Audit of Cancer treatment centers around the world. He is an Author and Co-author of more than 50 research articles in peer reviewed Journals and Conference proceedings. He has delivered invited talks at leading international conferences such as World Congress in Medical Physics, Asia Oceania Conference in Medical Physics. He has been a recipient of several international awards, scholarships and fellowships including the highly competitive 'Australia's Endeavour Executive Award" for high achievement by the Australian Government. He is also collaborating and supervising research students at various Universities and Hospitals in Sri Lanka and India. He is an expert reviewer for various international medical physics indexed Journals.