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    Overview

  • Dr Rajesh Lavakumar is the lead musculoskeletal radiologist for Manipal Hospitals Radiology Group and one of the Leads for UK teleradiology. He completed his MBBS at Madras Medical College in 1995, and further pursued surgical training in the UK, acquiring his MRCS in 2002 from the Royal College of Edinburgh. He then completed his radiology training at Hull University teaching hospitals NHS trust, UK and was awarded FRCR in 2007. After serving as a consultant radiologist at North Lincolnshire and Goole NHS trust for nearly 2 years, he moved to India and joined Columbia Asia hospitals in 2010. He completed an international fellowship in MSK radiology from Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford in 2013. Dr Lavakumar has 17 years of radiology experience. He is a member of the European Society of skeletal radiologists and the musculoskeletal Society of India. As a senior member of the MHRG team, he has led the MSK radiology practice at Columbia Asia for the past 10 years. His other areas of interest include chest, abdomen and Onco imaging. Dr Lavakumar is actively involved in postgraduate and fellowship training. He has been a faculty member at a number of national and international conferences and has a number of presentations to his credit.

  • Field of Expertise

  • Radiology
  • Fellowship & Membership

  • European Society of skeletal radiologists.
  • Musculoskeletal Society of India.
  • Languages Spoken

  • English
  • Kannada
  • Hindi
  • Tamil
  • Telegu
  • Malayalam
  • French
  • Talks & Publications

  • Coauthor – poster presentation - Enterococcal endocarditis-related reactive arthritis
  • with typical imaging features distinguishing it from infective spondyloarthritis
  • – World rheumatology forum – Gurgaon – Jan 2019.
  • Second author – Case report – Gas in the bone – emphysematous OM – Eurorad 23
  • Jan 2017.
  • IRIA 2015- ‘our experience - comparison of MR arthrography with conventional
  • shoulder MRI’ - guarantor and coauthor Delphi group expert member involved in the development of RCR’s iRefer musculoskeletal radiology guideline reviews.
  • Coauthor – Case report - Idiopathic pulmonary venous thrombosis – Journal of case
  • reports -2015.
  • European Congress of Radiology 2008 - ‘High resolution computed tomography
  • (HRCT) findings of the lungs in febrile neutropenic patients’-coauthor.
  • Educational exhibit at ECR 2007- ‘Pleuropulmonary manifestations of asbestos_x005f_x0002_related disease: Computed tomography (CT) findings’-coauthor.
  • Educational exhibit at ECR 2007- ‘The organic dust: Radiographic and high
  • resolution CT findings of hypersensitivity pneumonitis ‘-coauthor.
  • Poster presentation at RSNA 2006 - ‘Pictoral review of CT features of pneumocystis
  • pneumonia’ –Dec 2006 –coauthor.
  • Poster presentation at BSIR – ‘Radiological intervention –a justifiable approach in
  • management of failing dialysis access’-Nov 2005 -main author.
  • Poster Presentation at The Annual Scientific Meeting of RCR ‘CT guided
  • transthoracic lung biopsies in a district general hospital - An experience over
  • 44 months.’– Sept 2003 -main author.

    Fellowship & Membership

  • European Society of skeletal radiologists.
  • Musculoskeletal Society of India.
  • Overview

  • Dr Rajesh Lavakumar is the lead musculoskeletal radiologist for Manipal Hospitals Radiology Group and one of the Leads for UK teleradiology. He completed his MBBS at Madras Medical College in 1995, and further pursued surgical training in the UK, acquiring his MRCS in 2002 from the Royal College of Edinburgh. He then completed his radiology training at Hull University teaching hospitals NHS trust, UK and was awarded FRCR in 2007. After serving as a consultant radiologist at North Lincolnshire and Goole NHS trust for nearly 2 years, he moved to India and joined Columbia Asia hospitals in 2010. He completed an international fellowship in MSK radiology from Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford in 2013. Dr Lavakumar has 17 years of radiology experience. He is a member of the European Society of skeletal radiologists and the musculoskeletal Society of India. As a senior member of the MHRG team, he has led the MSK radiology practice at Columbia Asia for the past 10 years. His other areas of interest include chest, abdomen and Onco imaging. Dr Lavakumar is actively involved in postgraduate and fellowship training. He has been a faculty member at a number of national and international conferences and has a number of presentations to his credit.

  • Field of Expertise

  • Radiology
  • Languages Spoken

  • English
  • Kannada
  • Hindi
  • Tamil
  • Telegu
  • Malayalam
  • French
  • Talks & Publications

  • Coauthor – poster presentation - Enterococcal endocarditis-related reactive arthritis
  • with typical imaging features distinguishing it from infective spondyloarthritis
  • – World rheumatology forum – Gurgaon – Jan 2019.
  • Second author – Case report – Gas in the bone – emphysematous OM – Eurorad 23
  • Jan 2017.
  • IRIA 2015- ‘our experience - comparison of MR arthrography with conventional
  • shoulder MRI’ - guarantor and coauthor Delphi group expert member involved in the development of RCR’s iRefer musculoskeletal radiology guideline reviews.
  • Coauthor – Case report - Idiopathic pulmonary venous thrombosis – Journal of case
  • reports -2015.
  • European Congress of Radiology 2008 - ‘High resolution computed tomography
  • (HRCT) findings of the lungs in febrile neutropenic patients’-coauthor.
  • Educational exhibit at ECR 2007- ‘Pleuropulmonary manifestations of asbestos_x005f_x0002_related disease: Computed tomography (CT) findings’-coauthor.
  • Educational exhibit at ECR 2007- ‘The organic dust: Radiographic and high
  • resolution CT findings of hypersensitivity pneumonitis ‘-coauthor.
  • Poster presentation at RSNA 2006 - ‘Pictoral review of CT features of pneumocystis
  • pneumonia’ –Dec 2006 –coauthor.
  • Poster presentation at BSIR – ‘Radiological intervention –a justifiable approach in
  • management of failing dialysis access’-Nov 2005 -main author.
  • Poster Presentation at The Annual Scientific Meeting of RCR ‘CT guided
  • transthoracic lung biopsies in a district general hospital - An experience over
  • 44 months.’– Sept 2003 -main author.

    Languages Spoken

  • English
  • Kannada
  • Hindi
  • Tamil
  • Telegu
  • Malayalam
  • French
  • Overview

  • Dr Rajesh Lavakumar is the lead musculoskeletal radiologist for Manipal Hospitals Radiology Group and one of the Leads for UK teleradiology. He completed his MBBS at Madras Medical College in 1995, and further pursued surgical training in the UK, acquiring his MRCS in 2002 from the Royal College of Edinburgh. He then completed his radiology training at Hull University teaching hospitals NHS trust, UK and was awarded FRCR in 2007. After serving as a consultant radiologist at North Lincolnshire and Goole NHS trust for nearly 2 years, he moved to India and joined Columbia Asia hospitals in 2010. He completed an international fellowship in MSK radiology from Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford in 2013. Dr Lavakumar has 17 years of radiology experience. He is a member of the European Society of skeletal radiologists and the musculoskeletal Society of India. As a senior member of the MHRG team, he has led the MSK radiology practice at Columbia Asia for the past 10 years. His other areas of interest include chest, abdomen and Onco imaging. Dr Lavakumar is actively involved in postgraduate and fellowship training. He has been a faculty member at a number of national and international conferences and has a number of presentations to his credit.

  • Fellowship & Membership

  • European Society of skeletal radiologists.
  • Musculoskeletal Society of India.
  • Field of Expertise

  • Radiology
  • Talks & Publications

  • Coauthor – poster presentation - Enterococcal endocarditis-related reactive arthritis
  • with typical imaging features distinguishing it from infective spondyloarthritis
  • – World rheumatology forum – Gurgaon – Jan 2019.
  • Second author – Case report – Gas in the bone – emphysematous OM – Eurorad 23
  • Jan 2017.
  • IRIA 2015- ‘our experience - comparison of MR arthrography with conventional
  • shoulder MRI’ - guarantor and coauthor Delphi group expert member involved in the development of RCR’s iRefer musculoskeletal radiology guideline reviews.
  • Coauthor – Case report - Idiopathic pulmonary venous thrombosis – Journal of case
  • reports -2015.
  • European Congress of Radiology 2008 - ‘High resolution computed tomography
  • (HRCT) findings of the lungs in febrile neutropenic patients’-coauthor.
  • Educational exhibit at ECR 2007- ‘Pleuropulmonary manifestations of asbestos_x005f_x0002_related disease: Computed tomography (CT) findings’-coauthor.
  • Educational exhibit at ECR 2007- ‘The organic dust: Radiographic and high
  • resolution CT findings of hypersensitivity pneumonitis ‘-coauthor.
  • Poster presentation at RSNA 2006 - ‘Pictoral review of CT features of pneumocystis
  • pneumonia’ –Dec 2006 –coauthor.
  • Poster presentation at BSIR – ‘Radiological intervention –a justifiable approach in
  • management of failing dialysis access’-Nov 2005 -main author.
  • Poster Presentation at The Annual Scientific Meeting of RCR ‘CT guided
  • transthoracic lung biopsies in a district general hospital - An experience over
  • 44 months.’– Sept 2003 -main author.

    Field of Expertise

  • Radiology
  • Fellowship & Membership

  • European Society of skeletal radiologists.
  • Musculoskeletal Society of India.
  • Languages Spoken

  • English
  • Kannada
  • Hindi
  • Tamil
  • Telegu
  • Malayalam
  • French
  • Talks & Publications

  • Coauthor – poster presentation - Enterococcal endocarditis-related reactive arthritis
  • with typical imaging features distinguishing it from infective spondyloarthritis
  • – World rheumatology forum – Gurgaon – Jan 2019.
  • Second author – Case report – Gas in the bone – emphysematous OM – Eurorad 23
  • Jan 2017.
  • IRIA 2015- ‘our experience - comparison of MR arthrography with conventional
  • shoulder MRI’ - guarantor and coauthor Delphi group expert member involved in the development of RCR’s iRefer musculoskeletal radiology guideline reviews.
  • Coauthor – Case report - Idiopathic pulmonary venous thrombosis – Journal of case
  • reports -2015.
  • European Congress of Radiology 2008 - ‘High resolution computed tomography
  • (HRCT) findings of the lungs in febrile neutropenic patients’-coauthor.
  • Educational exhibit at ECR 2007- ‘Pleuropulmonary manifestations of asbestos_x005f_x0002_related disease: Computed tomography (CT) findings’-coauthor.
  • Educational exhibit at ECR 2007- ‘The organic dust: Radiographic and high
  • resolution CT findings of hypersensitivity pneumonitis ‘-coauthor.
  • Poster presentation at RSNA 2006 - ‘Pictoral review of CT features of pneumocystis
  • pneumonia’ –Dec 2006 –coauthor.
  • Poster presentation at BSIR – ‘Radiological intervention –a justifiable approach in
  • management of failing dialysis access’-Nov 2005 -main author.
  • Poster Presentation at The Annual Scientific Meeting of RCR ‘CT guided
  • transthoracic lung biopsies in a district general hospital - An experience over
  • 44 months.’– Sept 2003 -main author.
  • Overview

  • Dr Rajesh Lavakumar is the lead musculoskeletal radiologist for Manipal Hospitals Radiology Group and one of the Leads for UK teleradiology. He completed his MBBS at Madras Medical College in 1995, and further pursued surgical training in the UK, acquiring his MRCS in 2002 from the Royal College of Edinburgh. He then completed his radiology training at Hull University teaching hospitals NHS trust, UK and was awarded FRCR in 2007. After serving as a consultant radiologist at North Lincolnshire and Goole NHS trust for nearly 2 years, he moved to India and joined Columbia Asia hospitals in 2010. He completed an international fellowship in MSK radiology from Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford in 2013. Dr Lavakumar has 17 years of radiology experience. He is a member of the European Society of skeletal radiologists and the musculoskeletal Society of India. As a senior member of the MHRG team, he has led the MSK radiology practice at Columbia Asia for the past 10 years. His other areas of interest include chest, abdomen and Onco imaging. Dr Lavakumar is actively involved in postgraduate and fellowship training. He has been a faculty member at a number of national and international conferences and has a number of presentations to his credit.

    Talks & Publications

  • Coauthor – poster presentation - Enterococcal endocarditis-related reactive arthritis
  • with typical imaging features distinguishing it from infective spondyloarthritis
  • – World rheumatology forum – Gurgaon – Jan 2019.
  • Second author – Case report – Gas in the bone – emphysematous OM – Eurorad 23
  • Jan 2017.
  • IRIA 2015- ‘our experience - comparison of MR arthrography with conventional
  • shoulder MRI’ - guarantor and coauthor Delphi group expert member involved in the development of RCR’s iRefer musculoskeletal radiology guideline reviews.
  • Coauthor – Case report - Idiopathic pulmonary venous thrombosis – Journal of case
  • reports -2015.
  • European Congress of Radiology 2008 - ‘High resolution computed tomography
  • (HRCT) findings of the lungs in febrile neutropenic patients’-coauthor.
  • Educational exhibit at ECR 2007- ‘Pleuropulmonary manifestations of asbestos_x005f_x0002_related disease: Computed tomography (CT) findings’-coauthor.
  • Educational exhibit at ECR 2007- ‘The organic dust: Radiographic and high
  • resolution CT findings of hypersensitivity pneumonitis ‘-coauthor.
  • Poster presentation at RSNA 2006 - ‘Pictoral review of CT features of pneumocystis
  • pneumonia’ –Dec 2006 –coauthor.
  • Poster presentation at BSIR – ‘Radiological intervention –a justifiable approach in
  • management of failing dialysis access’-Nov 2005 -main author.
  • Poster Presentation at The Annual Scientific Meeting of RCR ‘CT guided
  • transthoracic lung biopsies in a district general hospital - An experience over
  • 44 months.’– Sept 2003 -main author.
  • Overview

  • Dr Rajesh Lavakumar is the lead musculoskeletal radiologist for Manipal Hospitals Radiology Group and one of the Leads for UK teleradiology. He completed his MBBS at Madras Medical College in 1995, and further pursued surgical training in the UK, acquiring his MRCS in 2002 from the Royal College of Edinburgh. He then completed his radiology training at Hull University teaching hospitals NHS trust, UK and was awarded FRCR in 2007. After serving as a consultant radiologist at North Lincolnshire and Goole NHS trust for nearly 2 years, he moved to India and joined Columbia Asia hospitals in 2010. He completed an international fellowship in MSK radiology from Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford in 2013. Dr Lavakumar has 17 years of radiology experience. He is a member of the European Society of skeletal radiologists and the musculoskeletal Society of India. As a senior member of the MHRG team, he has led the MSK radiology practice at Columbia Asia for the past 10 years. His other areas of interest include chest, abdomen and Onco imaging. Dr Lavakumar is actively involved in postgraduate and fellowship training. He has been a faculty member at a number of national and international conferences and has a number of presentations to his credit.

  • Fellowship & Membership

  • European Society of skeletal radiologists.
  • Musculoskeletal Society of India.
  • Field of Expertise

  • Radiology
  • Languages Spoken

  • English
  • Kannada
  • Hindi
  • Tamil
  • Telegu
  • Malayalam
  • French