Pramod Kumar Julka

Biography

Pramod Kumar Julka, a Delhiite, graduated in medicine and did MD in Radiotherapy from the Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, in 1979. He has also had higher training at the M. D. Anderson Hospital, Houston, Texas, under World Health Organization fellowship and thereafter at the Long Beach Memorial Cancer Centre, Long Beach, California. in national and international peer reviewed journals that has benefited eminent researchers across the globe; ResearchGate listing 184 articles by him. He has also authored a book under the name, Becoming A Successful Clinical Trial Investigator.

Julka is credited with the first peripheral blood stem cell transplant following high dose chemotherapy in Metastatic Breast Cancer in India which he performed on 9 May 1995. This feat was included by the Limca Book of World Records, in 1998. He was invited as the Expert Oncologist by the Indian Federation of United Nations Associations in 1983. and the national advisory committee of Global Cancer Summit - 2015. The other positions held by Dr. Julka are: Former President - Association of Radiation Oncologists of India Indian Medical Association (IMA) Best Orator of the Year Award, 2009 P K Haldar Oration Award - AROI Conference on Translational Research - 2007 Indian Medical Association (IMA) Award for Clinical Oncology - 2006 Dr. G.D. Pandey Oration Award - 2006 NDB Oration Award - Indian Medical association - 2005 Leading Scientist of the World Award - International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England - 2005 OISCA Foundation Award - 2001 Indian Medical Association (IMA) Award for Medical Education and Research - 2000-2001 Gold Medal - Indian Medical Association - 1995