Location: Chennai, India
37 years of experience
Designation: Consultant
- Qualification: MBBS, MD (General Medicine), DNB (Medical Oncology)
- Specialization: Medical Oncology
- Works At: Rela Hospital
About Dr. K.R.Gopi
Clinical Expertise
- Breast Cancer
- Colo rectal cancer
- Ovarian cancer
- Prostate cancer
- Lymphoma & Leukemias
- Hepato–Biliary–Pancreatic cancers
- Post-transplant Lymphoproliferative disorders
- Management of Cancer in the frail and elderly
- Pain and Palliative care
Honors and Awards
- Involved in various Clinical Trials in U.K.
- Letrozole trial in Breast cancer.
- Sunitinib trial in soft tissue sarcoma.
- Imatinib trial in Chronic myeloid leukaemia.
- Trastuzumab HERA trial.
- Bevacizumab trial in Metastatic ovarian cancer.
- Bevacizumab trial in Metastatic colorectal cancer.
- Panitumumab trial in Metastatic colorectal cancer.
- Rituximab trial in DLBCL Lymphoma.
- Introduced subcutaneous Morphine infusion in India. Treated several hundreds of patients with subcutaneous Morphine in terminally ill patients.
Specialization
Medical Oncology
Qualification
MBBS, MD (General Medicine), DNB (Medical Oncology)
Experience
- Senior Consultant Medical Oncologist, Apollo Speciality Hospital, Global Hospital, Dr. Rela Hospital, Chennai, 2011 to date.
- NHS Hospitals, United Kingdom, 1995–2011
- Senior registrar and later Consultant medical oncologist in U.K
- Peterborough NHS
- South Manchester University Hospital NHS
- Christie NHS Manchester
- Clatterbridge NHS Liverpool
- Western General Hospital Edinburgh
- Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS
- Tayside NHS Dundee
- Weston General Hospital NHS
- Wexam Park Hospital NHS
- Aberdeen Royal Infirmary NHS
- Consultant Physician, India, 1987–1995