Dr. Asha Reddy

Dr. Asha Reddy is a young and go-getting oncoplastic surgeon practicing at Chennai Breast Centre, Chennai, Tamilnadu. She finished her MBBS and MS General Surgery training from Sri Ramachandra Medical College, Chennai. Ever since her surgical training she has been interested in women health, particularly breast diseases and found the need for good care when it came to breast diseases and breast cancer. To follow her passion, she pursued a HBNI Fellowship in Breast Oncology in the famous Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai. She is especially interested in Triple negative breast cancers, young breast cancers, Genetic counselling, and breast oncoplasty.

She has participated in several research projects associated with both Chennai Breast Centre and Tata Memorial hospital. The reach-for-the stars doctor has won many accolades and awards. To name a few –

• Best Poster Award: ‘Can we avoid axillary lymph node dissection in patients with 1-2 positive sentinel lymph nodes in the indian setting?’; CoBRCA 2019; San Fransisco, USA.
• Best Presenter Award: Case presentation of LICAP; Workshop on breast Oncoplasty- IISER, Pune 2018.
• Best team presentation for MDT- ‘4 Th Indo-British Advanced Master class in Breast Oncoplastic Surgery and Breast Cnacer Symposium’ – 17-19 th August 2019; Pune, India.
• ISO Young Scientist Award; Best oral Presentation during Biennial National Conference of Indian Society of Medical and Paediatric Oncology and Indian Society of Oncology (ISMPO ISO) (6 th -8th November 2015 Mumbai)
• Second Prize ‘Tuberculosis of the breast mimicking breast cancer’ 1 st Jipmer Oncoplastic Breast Surgery Conference and south zone regional CME of ABSI 1014 (18 th and 19 th October 2014)like the Best Poster award in CoBRCA (San Fransisco, California) in 2019 and the ISO Young Scientist Award in 2015.

She has presented posters and papers in several national and international conferences. Another jewel in her crown is her contribution to many publications -

PUBLICATIONS

• Reddy A, Mullapudi NA, Kabeer KK, Nimmagadda R, Radhakrishna S. Treatment of elderly breast cancer patients in a breast center in India. Indian Journal of Cancer. 2019 Jan 1;56(1):45.
• Pervez, Ahmed, Pranank Kakarla, Magesh Chandran, and Asha Reddy. "5-year analysis of thyroidectomies; a retrospective clinicopathological assessment of papillary carcinoma of thyroid in a coastal urban area." International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences 6, no. 2 (2018): 509-514.
• Pervez, Ahmed, Naveen T. Mallikarjun, Asha Reddy, and Cunnigaiper D. Narayanan. "Retrospective analysis of patients undergoing retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for carcinoma ovary comparing CT and histopathology: a single centre study." International Surgery Journal (2018).
• Reddy, Asha, Saravanan Sanniyasi, Dilip Joseph George, and Cunnigaiper Dhanasekaran Narayanan. "A rare case report of Solid Pseudopapillary Tumor of the pancreas with portal hypertension." International journal of surgery case reports 22 (2016): 35-38.
• George, Dilip, S. Saravanan, sha Reddy, and Narayanan Cunnigaiper Dhanasekhar. "Laparoscopic Distal Pancreatectomy for Serous Cystadenoma with Anomalous Vasculature." (2016): 305-306.
• Sanniyasi, Saravanan, Parimuthukumar Rajappa, Manuneethimaran Thiyagarajan, Akshitha Reddy, and Asha Reddy. "Analysis of predictors of a difficult laparoscopic cholecystectomy." International Surgery Journal 3, no. 3 (2016): 1322-1324.

POSTER PRESENTATION

• ‘Varied Presentations of Rosa-Dorfman Disease Mimicking Breast cancer’ ISO- ISMPO 2019; Indore.
• ‘Breast Cancer in the Elderly in India’- 2 nd Indian Cancer Congress, Bengaluru (8 th -12 th November, 2017)
• ‘A rare case of Angiosarcoma of the breast in a background of Phylloides Tumor’- ABSICON 2016, Bengaluru (1 st to 3 rd July, 2016)
• ‘A rare case of Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Breast’- ABSICON 2016, Bengaluru (1 st to 3 rd July, 2016)
• ‘Breast Cancer: Trends in Chennai’- Biennial National Conference of Indian Society of Medical and Paediatric Oncology and Indian Society of Oncology (ISMPO ISO) (6 th - 8th November 2015 Mumbai)
• ‘Isolated Splenic Tuberculosis’ – 39 th Annual Conference of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry Chapter of ASI (7 th -9 th August 2015, Kodaikanal)
• ‘Tuberculosis of the breast mimicking breast cancer’- 1 st Jipmer Oncoplastic Breast Surgery Conference and south zone regional CME (18 th and 19 th October 2014)
• ‘Triple Whammy- A rare case of multiple ileal carcinoid’- Pathcon 2014- An international update in Pathology, Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, Chennai (7 th October 2014)
• ‘Laparostomy in Tuberculous Peritonitis’- 16 th Annual Hernia Repair Conference (12 th -15 th March 2014, Las Vegas, USA)

PAPER/ORAL PRESENTAION

• ‘Retrospective audit of Internal Mammary Lymph Node dissection in the management of breast cancer”- ISO-ISMPO 2019; Indore (1 st -3 rd November 2019)
• ‘A Rare case of Solid Pseudopapillary Tumor of Pancreas’ – 9 th Annual Conference of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry Chapter of ASI (7 th -9 th August 2015, Kodaikanal)
• ‘Triple Negative Breast Cancer’ -Biennial National Conference of Indian Society of Medical and Paediatric Oncology and Indian Society of Oncology (ISMPO ISO) (6 th -8th November 2015 Mumbai)
• ‘Acute Renal Failure with hyperuricemia as an initial presentation of Leukemia in Children’ at Empower 2012- International Medical Conference at Stanley Medical College, Chennai, India - September 2012