Dr. Col. R. Ranga Rao

Educational Qualfication:

• DM (Medical Oncology) Dr .Muthulaxmi College of Oncological Sciences, Cancer Institute, Adayar, Chennai
• MD (Internal Medicine) Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra
• MBBS, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Ajmer

Professional Membership:

• American Society of Clinical Oncology ( ASCO)
• European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO)
• Indian Society of Medical and Pediatric Oncology (ISMPO)

Previous Experience:

• Max Super Specialty Hospital
• BLK Super Specialty Hospital
• Artemis Hospital
• Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute
• R&R, Army Hospital

• Awarded ‘Vishisht Seva Medal’ by President of India for meritorious and distinguished service rendered in Armed Forces on the eve of Republic Day 2006.
• Col KK Gupta Memorial Gold Medal 1984 for standing first in Advance course Medicine 1982-84.
• Lt Gen R S Hoon Award 1994 for the original paper entitled “Immuno-phenotyping of Acute Leukaemia”
• Best Original Article Award MJAFI 1995 for original paper entitled “use of Long –term venous Access in patients of Acute Leukaemia and NHL”.
• Lt Gen RS Hoon Award 1996, for original paper entitled “Preliminary analysis of Alpha Interferon therapy in Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia”.
• Air Marshall Ajit Nath Guru Shanti Devi Award 1997 for original paper entitled “Impact of prophylactic use of Colony Stimulating Factors on neutropenia and infections in moderately intensive chemotherapy”.
• 2nd Best Poster Award Merck Serrano Oncology Summit Hong Kong March, 2012 : Palliative weekly chemotherapy along with cetuximab in recurrent and metastatic head and neck cancers an observational phase IV Retrospective Analysis.