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 Ruchi Sinnatamby
Fellow

Dr Ruchi Sinnatamby

Official Fellow; Fellow in Medicine

Murray Edwards College provides a dedicated supportive environment enabling women to fulfil their absolute potential and be the best they can.

Degrees and honours

  • MA (Cambridge)
  • MB BChir (Cambridge)
  • FRCR
  • FHEA
  • FRCP

Awards and prizes

  • Exceptional contribution award, Royal College of Radiologists, 2025
  • RCR BSBR Travelling Professorship, Royal College of Radiologists, 2017                                            
  • Pilkington Prize for teaching excellence, University of Cambridge, 2016
  • Educator of the Year, Health Education East of England, 2013

Research interests

  • Clinical issues around breast cancer diagnosis and imaging.

Biography

Ruchi Sinnatamby is an alumna of Queens’ College, Cambridge, and graduated with distinctions in Clinical Medicine. She is Clinical Sub-Dean for Quality Assurance and Affiliate Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine. She is a Consultant Radiologist at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust providing direct clinical care in specialist breast imaging. She is also Vice Chair of the final FRCR IIB exam board at the Royal College of Radiologists where she is responsible for examiner training & development.

Ruchi has been a Fellow of Murray Edwards since 1994 and served as Vice President from 2014 to 2019.

Authored work

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    Use of novel artificial intelligence computer-assisted detection (AI-CAD) for screening mammography: an analysis of 17,884 consecutive two-view full-field digital mammography screening exams

    Sylvia H Heywang-Köbrunner, Astrid Hacker, Alexander Jänsch, Michael Hertlein, Christoph Mieskes, Susanne Elsner, Ruchira Sinnatamby and Alexander Katalinic

    Acta Radiologica, 2023 Vol. 64(10) 2697–2703

     

    A Cross-Machine Comparison of Shear-Wave Speed Measurements Using 2D Shear-Wave Elastography in the Normal Female Breast

    Emma Harris, Ruchi Sinnatamby, Elizabeth O’Flynn, Anna M. Kirby and Jeffrey C. Bamber 

    Appl. Sci. 202111(20), 9391; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11209391 

    Special Issue Innovations in Ultrasound Imaging for Medical Diagnosis

     

    Role of early post-operative breast MRI: how helpful is it in deciding the next step for women who may have residual disease? Healy NA, Benson JR, Sinnatamby R.

    British Journal of  Radiology Open 2021; 3: 20210024.

     

    Unprovoked venous thromboembolism in women over 40: is screening for occult malignancy with mammography and abdominopelvic CT of benefit?

    Healy NA, Daley FC, Sinnatamby R. 

    Clinical Radiology 2020;75(10):757-762.

     

    A National Survey Exploring UK Trainees' Perceptions, Core Training Experience, and Decisions to Pursue Advanced Training in Breast Radiology

    S Lowes, M Bydder, R Sinnatamby

    Clinical Radiology 2017 Nov;72(11):991.e1-991.e13. doi: 10.1016/j.crad.2017.06.013Diagnostic implications of digital breast tomosynthesis in symptomatic patientsSanjeeva Ramasundara, Lorraine Tucker, Matthew Wallis, Peter Britton, Penny Moyle, Kathryn Taylor, Ruchi Sinnatamby, Alan Freeman, Matthew Gaskarth, Fiona GilbertBreast Cancer Research and Treatment 2015; 17(Suppl 1): P20. 

     

    The effect of false positive breast screening examinations on subsequent attendance: retrospective cohort studyAnthony J Maxwell, Cathryn Beattie, Janet Lavelle, Iain Lyburn, Ruchi Sinnatamby, Shelagh Garnett and Annie HerbertJournal of Medical Screening 2013:1–8

    Measuring the accuracy of diagnostic imaging in symptomatic breast patients: team and individual performance

    P Britton, J Warwick, M G Wallis, S O’Keeffe, K Taylor, R Sinnatamby, S Barter, 

    M Gaskarth, S W Duffy, GC Wishart

    The British Journal of Radiology, 85 (2012), 415–422

     

    Ultrasound elastography as an adjuvant to conventional ultrasound in the pre-operative assessment of axillary lymph nodes in suspected breast cancer; a pilot study Taylor K, O’Keefe S, Britton PD, Wallis MG, Treece GM, Housden J, Parashar D, Bond S, Sinnatamby R. Clinical Radiology 2011 66: 1064-1071 

     

    Accuracy of unidimensional and volumetric ultrasound measurements in predicting good pathological response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer patients

    I. Gounaris, E. Provenzano, A. L. Vallier, L. Hiller,  M. Iddawela, S. Hilborne, K. Taylor, P. Britton, H. M. Earl, R. Sinnatamby

    Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 2011 Jun;127(2):459-69.

     

    Incidental breast lesions detected on CT: what is their significance?

    P Moyle, L Sonoda, P Britton, and R Sinnatamby,

    The British Journal of Radiology, 83 (2010), 233–240

     

    Initial clinical experience of an ultrasonic strain imaging system with novel noise masking capability

    Lujie Chen; Susan Freeman; Andrew Gee, PhD; James Housden; Richard Prager;

    Ruchi Sinnatamby; Graham Treece

    The British Journal of Radiology, 83 (2010), 702–706

     

    Ultrasound of the axilla: where to look for the sentinel lymph node

    P. Britton, P. Moyle, J.R. Benson, A. Goud, R. Sinnatamby, S. Barter, M. Gaskarth, E. Provenzano, M. Wallis

    Clinical Radiology 65 (2010) 373–376

     

Subject
Medicine