Ravindran Kanesvaran, MD

BSc, MRCP, FAMS

Dr. Kanesvaran is a Deputy Head and Senior Consultant in the Department of Medical Oncology of the National Cancer Centre Singapore. He is also an Associate Professor at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School and clinical senior lecturer at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He is actively involved in graduate medical education and is the Program Director of the Medical Oncology Senior Residency Program and Course Director for Foundations in Clinical Practice Course Duke NUS Medical School. He completed his medical oncology specialty training in the National Cancer Centre Singapore. After completion of that training he followed up with a fellowship in genitourinary oncology (GU) and geriatric oncology in Duke Cancer Institute in North Carolina, USA on a Healthcare Manpower Development Program (HMDP) scholarship awarded by the Ministry of Health Singapore. His research interests include GU oncology and geriatric oncology. He has published in a number of well-known peer-reviewed journals including Journal of Clinical Oncology and Lancet Oncology. He is also the author of textbook chapters in the field of geriatric oncology. He has also been awarded numerous recognition including the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO GU) Merit Award 2009, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) scholar-in-training Award 2010 and European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) fellowship award 2012. He is currently the immediate past President of the Singapore Society of Oncology (SSO) and the Singapore Geriatric Oncology Society. He is the President-Elect on the Board of Governance and the National Representative for Singapore in the International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG). He was awarded National Representative of the Year SIOG 2014 award. He was also awarded the Singhealth Excellent Service Quality Award in 2018 and 2019.