RAVI K. SANDRAPATY, MD

Board Certified Radiation Oncologist

Board Certified:  Radiation Oncology, American Board of Radiology Fellowship:  Brachytherapy, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, Long Beach, CA

Residency:  Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX (also Chief Resident)

Internship:  Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (affiliated with Stanford University Hospitals), San Jose, CA

Medical Education: Six-year accelerated combined BS and MD program at the University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL

Member:  American Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, American College of Radiology, American Medical Association, Florida Radiological Society, Florida Medical Association, Marion County Medical Society

Awards:  Recipient of many prestigious awards, including the U.S. Presidential Scholar Finalist

Hospital Privileges:  Dr. Sandrapaty is on-staff at all of the Marion County and Citrus County Hospitals, including Ocala Regional Medical Center, Munroe Regional Medical Center, West Marion Community Hospital, Seven Rivers Regional Medical Center and Citrus Memorial Hospital

Dr. Sandrapaty stays actively involved in the medical community through membership in several professional societies.  He serves on the Item Writing Committee for the American Board of Radiology’s written examinations.  He is also a member of the Cancer Committee at Ocala Regional Medical Center.  When he has free time, Dr. Sandrapaty enjoys spending quality time with his wife, Aruna, and their son, Vivek.  He also likes water sports, snow skiing, traveling and reading.

JAYANTH G. RAO, MD, MRCP

Board-Certified Radiation Oncologist

Medical School:  Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad, India (graduated with honors)

Board Certified:  Member of the Royal College of Physicians – Internal/Geriatric Medicine; American Board of Physician Specialists – Radiation Oncology

Fellowship:  Clinical Brachytherapy and Hyperthermia, Long Beach Memorial, Long Beach CA and University of California, Irvine, CA; Gastroenterology/Internal Medicine, Swansea/Cardiff Infirmary, South Wales, UK

Residency:  Radiation Oncology, Medical Oncology, Gastroenterology, Geriatric Medicine, Internal Medicine

Member:  American Brachytherapy Society, American Medical Society, American Association of Physician Specialists, Royal
College of Physicians – Ireland and UK

Dr. Rao serves as a Medical Director for Florida Regional Cancer Centers.  He was an active participant in numerous research projects for prostate, breast and gynecologic cancers.  Plus, he enrolled patients for the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast Cancer Protocols (NSABP) and Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) lung cancer protocols.  In addition, Dr. Rao moderated the International Prostate Cancer Workshop in Orlando, Florida and Long Beach, California and was an invited guest speaker at Sylvester Cancer Center – Miami Medical Center, Wayne State University and the American Association of Physician Specialists’ annual meeting in New York.  In addition to helping train physicians, Dr. Rao helped his colleagues stet up HDR Brachytherapy suites in Florida.  Next, he is a member of a national focus group that helped set guidelines for the implementation and use of prostate HDR treatment protocols.  Finally, Dr. Rao is credited with introducing state-of-the-art 3-D treatment planning and IMRT, as well as stereotactic radiosurgery to Marion and Citrus Counties in Florida.

A.M. NISAR SYED, MD, FRCS, DMRT, FICS

Board Certified Radiation Oncologist

Medical School:  Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad, India

Board Certified: 

• Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS) 1969
• Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1970
• Royal College of Surgeons of England (DMRT) 1972
• American Board of Radiology 1976

Fellowship:  American College of Radiation Oncology 2000

Academic Appointments: 

• Clinical Professor, Department of Radiology USC School of Medicine
• Clinical Professor, Department of Radiological Services, USC, Irvine School of Medicine
• Chancellor, American College of Radiation Oncology, Philadelphia, PA
• Clinical Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Kansas Medical Center

• Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Therapy, Freeman Hospital, Howard University, Washington, DC;
• Attending Radiation Oncologist, Southern California Cancer Center, California Hospital Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA; Director, Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Cancer Institute, Memorial Medical Center, Long Beach, CA;
• Visiting Professor to numerous institutions including Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Scripps Memorial Hospital, University of California at San Francisco

Scientific Papers / Publications:  (60 original articles) 
Editor in Chief, Endocurietherapy/Hyperthermia Oncology – an International Journal

AJMEL A. PUTHAWALA, MD, FACR

Medical School:  B.J. Medical College, Gujarat University, Ahmadabad, India

Board Certification:  American College of Radiology

Honors and Awards:  President, American Endocurietherapy Society, Los Angeles, CA; Fellowship American College of Radiology (FACR); Fellowship American College of Radiation Oncology (FACRO)

• Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Radiological Science, University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA;
• Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA;
• Principal Investigator, Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG)

Publications:  (55 original articles)

• Director, Clinical Hyperthermia, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, Long Beach, CA;
• Associate Director, Radiation Oncology Center, Memorial Cancer Institute, Long Beach, CA;
• Radiation Oncologist, Good Samaritan, Los Angeles, CA; Radiation Oncologist, Saddleback Memorial Medical Center, Saddleback, CA;
• Attending Radiation Oncologist and Associate Director, Department of Endocurietherapy, Memorial Medical Center, Long Beach CA