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Dheeraj R Kamalam, MD & Ashalatha K Nair, MD
Dheeraj R Kamalam,MD is an Anesthesiologist, Interventional Pain specialist and Critical Care Intensivist who is practising in Guam, USA.He did his Anesthesiology residency training at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY-10029,after completing a two year residency in Surgery in Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York -11219.
Subsequently he completed his Fellowship in Pain Management at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine,which has an excellent pain fellowship program giving training in organizing and managing a full fledged acute and chronic pain service and giving training in all categories of interventions,nerve blocks, sympathetic and neurolytic blocks for pain control.He has trained in caudal epidurolysis with Racz catheter,different ganglion blocks,Radio frequency lesioning of facet nerves,ganglion impar, in addition to placement of implantable devices like permanent epidural catheters, Intrathecal Arrow and Medtronics pumps and dorsal column stimulators.He presented the abstract on "Radiofrequency ablation of ganglion impar for intractable coccydynia" in the IARS congress in San Diego, CA from March 16 to 20th 2002.
He later completed Critical Care Medicine (ICU) fellowship at Mount Sinai School of Medicine,NY,NY on June 2002.
His wife is Ashalatha K Nair,MD an Anesthesiologist who did her anesthesiology residency training in Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY and subsequently did Fellowship training in Obstetric Anesthesiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine ,NY, NY.She is now an assistant professor of Anesthesiology at Elmhurst Hospital Center,Queens, NY affiliated with Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY,NY.
Dheeraj's eldest son, Aashiq Dheeraj is a tenth grader in Great Neck South HS, NY and his younger son Ajay Dheeraj is a third grader . They lived in Guam, USA which is a tropical island in the western Pacific.( www.visitguamusa.org)
Roots in India:
Dheeraj R Kamalam-
He completed his medical school in Government Medical college, Trivandrum,Kerala ,India and obtained MBBS degree from University of Kerala in 1987. Afterwards he did one year post graduation in Orthopedics (D Ortho) in Medical college , Trivandrum. Subsequently he did residency in General Surgery at the Government Medical college ,Kottayam, Kerala,India and got board certified to obtain the MS (General Surgery) degree in 1992 from the Mahatma Gandhi University,Kottayam,Kerala,India.He went on to do sub speciality Fellowship training in Urology from Medical college, Kottayam, Kerala, India . He got board certified in Urology and obtained MCh (Urology) degree from the Mahatma Gandhi University , Kottayam, Kerala,India in 1995.In 1995 he moved to the US and started residency training in Surgery at the Maimonides Medical center , Brooklyn, New York,USA. After obtaining the preliminary diploma in Surgery in 1997, he joined the residency progranm at Mount Sinai-NYU school of Medicine in Manhattan, NY,NY and trained to become an Anesthesiologist.He subsequently did ACGME accredited Fellowships in Interventional Pain specialist and Critical Care Medicine from the Mount Sinai medical center, NY,NY.(see web site link).
ASHALATHA NAIR:
Dheeraj's wife Asha did her medical school in India at Medical college, Kottayam,Kerala,India.She had training in upper GI endoscopy in India and did training in ENT and anesthesiology before moving to the United states.In US she did residency training in Anesthesiology at Maimonides medical center,Brooklyn, New york -11219 and went on to complete Fellowship training in Obstetric anesthesiology at the Mount Sinai school of medicine ,NY,NY 10029.She is interested in anesthesia research also and has presented abstracts in International conferences including at the Society of Obstetric anesthesiologists conference in Sandiego ,CA in 2001.
CURRICULUM VITAE-DHEERAJ R KAMALAM
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Dheeraj R. Kamalam, MD
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PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION:
July 2001 to June 2002: Fellowship in Critical Care Medicine,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY- 10029.
July 2000 to June 2001: Fellowship in Pain Management, Mount
Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY- 10029.
July 1997 to June 2000: Residency in Anesthesiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY-10029.
July 1995 to June 1997: Residency in Surgery, Maimonides
Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY- 11219.
May 1993 to June 1995: Residency in Urology, Medical College, Kottayam, Kerala, India.
June 1989 to June 1992: Residency in Surgery, Medical College, Kottayam, Kerala, India.
May 1988 to May 1989: Residency in Orthopedics, Medical
College, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.
April 1982 to April 1988: Medical School including the 1-year Compulsory Rotating Resident Internship- Medical College, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.
DEGREES:
June 2002: Board Certified in Critical Care Medicine, American board of Anesthesiology(ABA)
June 2001: Board Certified in Pain Medicine, American Board
of Anesthesiology(ABA)
June 2000: Board Certified for Anesthesiology, American Board of Anesthesiology(ABA)
June 1997: Diploma in Surgery (2 yr), American Board of Surgery.
June 1995: Master of Chirurgery in Urology (MCh in Urology), Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala India.
January 1993: Master of Surgery in General Surgery (MS General Surgery), Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India.
January 1988: Bachelor of Surgery, Bachelor of Medicine
(MBBS), University of Kerala, Trivandrum, India.
LICENSES:
Nebraska State- Unrestricted license issued on 6/27/2000 and current.
New York State- Unrestricted license current
Texas state - Unrestricted license
Unrestricted license in Guam (USA) - current
PUBLICATIONS:
Radio frequency ablation of the Ganglion Impar for intractable coccydynia- (Abstract published in supplement to
Anesthesia and Analgesia journal Feb 2002 Volume 94,
Number 2S,S-228)
Methods of removal of retained Foley catheter in Bladder, Kerala Medical Journal, 1994 35: 47-48.
Clinico-pathological analysis of Obstructive jaundice-Thesis
Submitted to Mahatma Gandhi University, India as part of
MS (Master of Surgery) degree
PRESENTATIONS:
Radio frequency ablation of Ganglion Impar for intractable
Coccydynia -Abstract presented in IARS conference San Diego, USA March 2002.
Embryonal Carcinoma of testis- Biological behavior- Paper
Presented at the 8th annual conference- Urological Association of Kerala, Calicut, India, Dec 1994.
Inflammatory pseudosarcoma of the Urinary Bladder- Paper
Presented at the South zone conference, Urological Society
of India, Pondicherry, India, July 1994.
Urinary bladder metastasis from Melanoma- Paper presented at the Midterm conference, Urological association of Kerala, May 1994
REFERENCES:
Ian Sampson, MD. Vice Chairman, Anesthesiology,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY, NY 10029
Yaakov Beilin, MD. Director, Obstetric Anesthesiology,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY, NY 10029
John Oropello, MD. Fellowship Director, Critical Care medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029.
Joel Kreitzer,MD Director, Pain management/Anesthesiology, Mount Sinai school of Medicine,NY,NY
Gordon Freedman, MD. Co Director, Pain Management/ Anesthesiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY, NY
Dr John Rosoff -Anesthesiologist Guam Surgicenter, Guam USA
Trivandrum medical college
Mount Sinai school of medicine
Maimonides medical center
Guam memorial hospital
Critical care
American society of Anesthesiology
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