The College of
Radiology Honours Founding Members – 29 May 2005
By Dr Evelyn Ho
(updated July 2006)
The “Brief” in brief on 8 of the CoR’s Founding Fathers (in
no specific order)!
The late Dato’ Dr SK
Dharmalingam
Dato’ Dr SK Dharmalingam was born in Kuala Kubu Bharu,
Selangor and graduated in medicine in the 1950s, serving as
houseman in Johor Bharu. He specialised in radiotherapy and
was trained in the Middlesex Hospital London. He became the
first Senior Consultant and Director of Radiotherapy,
Oncology and Nuclear Medicine in the Kuala Lumpur General
Hospital in 1960. He served in this capacity until 1982.
He was Honorary Consultant to the University Malaya
Medical Centre (1969 to 2006) and also Honorary Consultant
to the Cancer Treatment Centre (National Cancer Society of
Malaysia) within the Tung Shin Hospital, Kuala Lumpur. Dato’
Dr Dharma is founder of other organisations – including
founder member of National Cancer Society of Malaysia and
Founder President of the Malaysian Oncological Society
(1986-1992). He held many positions and of note, was
President of the National Cancer Society of Malaysia (1982
to 2006). He was Vice President of the Asian-Oceanian
Clinical Oncology Society (since 1987).
He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine,
International College of Surgeons, Royal College of
Radiologists (London) and Academy of Medicine of Malaysia.
He received the Pingat Peringatan Malaysia (1965), Kesatria
Mangku Negara (1968) and Darjah Dato’ Paduka Mahkota (Selangor)
(1983).
Dato’ Dr SK Dharmalingam passed away
peacefully on 17 July 2006.
Click here
to read National Cancer Society of Malaysia's tribute.
Dr Narinder Singh
Dr Narinder Singh hails from Batu Gajah, Perak and graduated
with his degree in medicine from the Adelaide University
Medical School in 1957. His housemanship was in the Royal
Adelaide Hospital and he returned to serve in the Ministry
of Health of Malaysia from 1959 to 1982 where he retired as
Senior Consultant and Head of Radiological Services. He
studied Radiology at the Royal Free Hospital, London.
At the Kuala Lumpur General Hospital (KLH), Dr Narinder
started the first albeit at that time, limited mammography
service in November 1964 and also started the Seldinger
technique in the radiological study of the blood vessels. He
was a pioneer in the field of therapeutic interventional
radiology – where the first embolisation procedures mainly
for kidney and liver tumours were carried out in the 1970s
in KLH. Pre and post renal transplant vascular studies were
also made available in the 1974. His other firsts were in
the provision of CT scan diagnostic services in 1975, as
well as the provision of interpretations of mammograms for
the National Cancer Society of Malaysia in 1985.
Dr Narinder may have retired from the Ministry of Health but
he started a radiological private practice in Kuala Lumpur
subsequently and is still working to date! The first private
mammography service (not taking into account the non-profit
National Cancer Society of Malaysia’s mammography unit) was
started by Dr Narinder.
He was active in Hockey, representing the Perak state while
in school and also played for the Adelaide University where
he captained the team for 3 years. Where he was still
playing competitively in golf, he boasted a handicap of 4!
Dato’ Dr Ismail Bin
Saad
Dato’ Dr Ismail bin Saad, a Penangite is currently working
as visiting Radiology Consultant at the Pusat Rawatan Islam
in Kuala Lumpur. He achieved outstanding results in Penang
Free School and graduated as a doctor from the University of
Malaya (Singapore) in 1960. He trained in Radiology in the
Royal Free Hospital, London and is an honorary Fellow of the
Royal College of Radiologists. In 2003, he was awarded an
honorary Doctorate in Medical Sciences from University
Kebangsaan Malaysia.
Dato’ Dr Ismail served 13 years with the Ministry of Health
and in 1973 he began his stint in University Kebangsaan
Malaysia (UKM) where he worked for another 18 years before
retiring. He joined UKM as a lecturer and was Head of
Radiology Department as well as Deputy Dean of the Medical
Faculty from 1974-1978. He was Professor in Radiology in
1978 and subsequently Dean of the Medical Faculty of UKM
from 1978-1980. It was during Dato’ Dr Ismail’s tenure in
UKM that the first intake of Radiology postgraduate students
in Malaysia graduated in 1979. He retired as Head of
Radiology Department in 1991.
In recognition of his services to Malaysia, he was awarded
the Kesatria Mangku Negara (1978), Johan Setia Mahkota
(1987) as well as the Darjah Setia Pangkuan Negeri Pulau
Pinang (1988) as well as the Tokoh Maal Hijrah (1993).
Dato’ Dr Ismail has served on various allied professional
bodies and is active in religious bodies such as the Majlis
Agama Islam Wilayah. He sits on various boards such as
Mayban Property Trust Management and Bank Islam Malaysia
Bhd.
Dato’ Dr K
Kulaveerasingam
Dato’ Dr K Kulaveerasingam was Vice President and
subsequently President of the Malaysian Radiological Society
(1990-1995). He was President of the Asian Oceanian Society
of Radiology (AOSR) from 1995 to 1998. He was conferred a
Gold Medal by the AOSR in 2001. He is a Fellow of the Royal
College of Radiologists (UK), Royal Society of Medicine
London and also Academy of Medicine of Malaysia. He was
organizing chairman of the highly successful 7th
International Asian Oceanian Congress of Radiology
“Centenary Roentgen Congress” in Kuala Lumpur in 1995.
Since “retiring” from active radiology work, he has been
Director of the Kumpulan Perubatan Johor Healthcare Sdn Bhd
(KPJHB), a post he holds from 1995 to date. He was Medical
Director of the Ampang Puteri Specialist Hospital from 1995
to 2004 and remains as a member of the Board of Directors of
the Puteri Specialist Hospital Sdn Bhd. Dato’ Dr Kula is
currently Medical Director of Seremban Specialist Hospital.
He sits on the Board of the Association of Private Hospitals
of Malaysia (APHM) and the Malaysian Society for Quality in
Health (MSQH).
Dato’ Dr Kula is active in the Malaysian Medical Association
and has held various key positions at the state level (Perak)
as well as national level and the Perak Medical
Practitioners Society.
Dato’ Dr Joginder
Singh
Dato’ Dr Joginder Singh came into the world in Taiping,
Perak and is currently Senior Consultant Radiologist in a
leading private hospital in Kuala Lumpur. He is Honorary
Senior Consultant to the Radiology Department in the
University Malaya Medical Centre and is a Board Member of
the Atomic Energy Licensing Board in the Prime Minister’s
Department from 1985 to date.
Trained as a radiologist (DMRD) in the UK in the early
1960s, he was conferred honorary Fellowship from the Royal
College of Radiologists (UK) in 1992. He joined the Faculty
of Medicine, University of Malaya in 1967 as lecturer. He
was Head of the Radiology Department from 1976 to 1986. Dato’
Dr Joginder was accorded full professorship in 1981. He has
more than 45 publications in radiology journals.
Dato’ Dr Jo was instrumental in establishing the Radiology
Departments for the Malaysian Armed Forces Hospitals in
Terendak, Kinrara, Kluang and Port Dickson when he was
attached full time to the Malaysian Armed Forces as
Consultant Radiologist from 1971 to 1974.
Dato’ Dr Jo held many positions in medical associations and
Ministry of Health committees and was at the helm of the
Malaysian Radiological Society from 1994 to 2000. He served
as secretary and founder member from 1977 to 1994. He was
also founder member of the Malaysian Society of Ultrasound
in Medicine and President of this association from 1983 to
1990. He was a council member and Chief Censor of the
Academy of Medicine if Malaysia. He has extensive experience
as organizing chairman of many international meetings.
Dato’ Dr Jo played hockey, cricket and also excelled in
athletics in school and medical college. He was Champion
Athlete of the Medical College of University of Bombay,
India from 1958 to 1961. He still loves golf.
Dato’ Dr K Ragupathy
Dato’ Dr Ragupathy’s early education was in Klang where he
was born. Subsequently he attended school in Jaffna, Sri
Lanka. After graduating in medicine from Sri Lanka (Colombo)
in 1966, he journeyed to London for his post graduate
training in Radiology (DMRD, London) and completed the
latter in 1972.
He served the Ministry of Health and the Armed Forces for a
total of 18 years in Selangor, Kelantan, Sabah and Sarawak.
He joined a private hospital in Penang as the resident
Consultant Diagnostic Radiologist in 1984 and now has a team
of 4 radiologists. He pioneered mammography services in 1988
assisting the Penang Branch of the National Cancer Society
of Malaysia and the Toh Puan Datin Khatijah Centre for Women
at Komtar, Penang. To date, he still serves as Honorary
Consultant Radiologist and Advisor on Breast Imaging for
these not for profit centres.
He was active in the Malaysian Medical Association, serving
in various positions including branch chairman in various
states. He was Honorary General Secretary of the Penang
Medical Practitioner’s Society for 2 terms in the mid 1980s.
He has assisted the CoR in organizing lectures and seminars
and also the Malaysian Ultrasound Society in Penang over the
years.
Dato’ Dr Ragu hopes to encourage and revitalize cardiac and
coronary vascular imaging amongst radiologists in the
country with the acquisition of one of the first few
64-multislice computed tomography scanners in Malaysia.
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Dr Amir appears to be following the footsteps of
his father, the late Dato’ Dr Hussain Ghani. Dr
Amir received the Founding Fathers’ Award for
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The late Dato’ Dr
Hussain Bin Abdul Ghani
What a coincidence that the inaugural Founding Fathers’
Award was held in Pahang, the state of origin of the late
Dato’ Dr Hussain. His medical degree was from the University
of Malaya (Singapore, 1957) and he later trained in
Radiology in London (DMRT, 1963). Prior to this, during the
Japanese Occupation, he was a phonogram clerk (1944 to 1945)
of the Telecommunications Department in Kuala Lipis where he
was born.
He headed the Malayan Medical Mission to Mecca, Saudi Arabia
in 1960. The late Dato’ Dr Hussain served in the Kuala
Lumpur General Hospital (KLH) from 1973 to 1981, initially
as Senior Consultant Radiologist and then, Head of
Department. He also served as Chairman of the Radiographers’
Training School, KLH during his tenure in HKL.
He served on several committees in various capacities such
as Chairman for Committee for Medical Terminology and
Federal Member of the Indonesia-Malaysia Language Council
(1977); Committees of Medical and Science Terminology,
“Ensaiklopedia Sains”, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka and member
of “Peruntukan F” Research Fund, University of Malaya from
1976-1981.
He was President of the Malaysian Radiological Society from
1978-1983.
Dato’ Dr Hussain passed away in 1983 while still holding the
office of Director of University Hospital Kuala Lumpur, a
post to which he was appointed in 1981.
For his service to the country, he was awarded the Johan
Mangku Negara (1976) and the Darjah Indera Mahkota Pahang
(1978).
Dr Perdamen Singh
Dr Perdamen was born in 1932 and studied at the Anglo Chinese School in Ipoh. He
passed Senior Cambridge with Grade 1 in 1950. Under a Colombo Plan Scholarship,
he graduated from Medicine in India in 1958.
On return to Malaysia, he served in Sungai Bakap and Taiping and then the Kuala
Lumpur General Hospital in the Department of Radiotherapy under Dato’ Dr SK
Dharmalingam.
He went to London and returned with further studies in Radiotherapy (DMRT) in
1964. He obtained his FRCR in 1977. He became Head & Senior Consultant in
Radiotherapy and Clinical Oncology, Hospital Kuala Lumpur in 1982 and
subsequently retired from this position in 1987.
Since 1988, the energetic Dr Perdamen has set up practice in Ipoh Specialists
Hospital and is still working!
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