Profile Summary

Medical Qualification:

• MBBS

• MD

•  Post Graduate Diploma in Musculoskeletal Ultrasound – UCAM, Spain

Designation: Consultant, Ultrasonography 

Years of experience: 10+ years

Areas of expertise:

• Ultrasound Interventions including foetal interventions and pain management interventions
• Ultrasound Contrast and Elastography
• Musculoskeletal Ultrasound

Introduction:

Dr. Rajas Chaubal is a Consultant in Ultrasound Department. He has keen interest in newer ultrasound applications, including Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound, Ultrasound Elastography, Musculoskeletal ultrasound, Ultrasound guided interventions, pain management interventions, fetal interventions etc. 
He has trained at Kings College Hospital, London and Harrison Birthright Centre for Fetal Medicine, London. He a frequent guest lecturer in all major ultrasound conferences - nationally and internationally, including Asian Ultrasound Federation meets and the prestigious Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), where he has been conducting hands on training sessions in Liver elastography and Breast elastography. 
Dr. Rajas is currently the National Academic Lead for the fatty liver project of Indian Radiological & Imaging Association (IRIA) and has been conducting seminars and workshops for the same across the country. He is qualified as a European Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology (ESSR) certified MSK ultrasound instructor and has been conducting several programmes in MSK ultrasound.   
He is also a collaborator with major industry partners and also Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) for their research and development projects including studies on Artificial intelligence and development of newer ultrasound contrast agents.

Awards:

• Award for Academic Excellence – IMA Thane, Mumbai 2020
• Reviewer: British Medical Journal Case Reports 2019
• IRIA International Travel Fellowship Grant for RSNA 2017
• National Academic Lead- Preventive Radiology Initiative of IRIA, 2022: Fatty Liver Project

 

Publications:

Chapters in Books:

• Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound of Focal Liver Lesions.  Seminars in Roentgenology, Elsevier publications, 51 (4), pp. 334-357
• Contrast Enhanced Gynaecologic Sonography. – Mc Graw Hill Publication- Chap 38 In Fleischer’s sonography in obstetrics and gynaecology. Textbook and teaching cases
• Specialty imaging - Fundamentals of CEUS – Elsevier publications - Contributed multiple chapters
• API Textbook of Medicine, Jaypee Publishers – Role of Ultrasound in Medicine

Chapters in books under process:

• Text Book of Radiology – David Sutton – Mid Trimester Anomaly scan
• IRIA text book: Foetal CNS: Anomalies for Dorsal Induction

Indexed Publications:

• Invasive thymoma - invading the superior vena cava and right atrium. Eurorad cases. DOI: 10.1594/EURORAD/CASE.12282
• Infantile Hemangioendothelioma of the Parotid Gland. Journal of Clinical Imaging Science ¦ January-March 2017 ¦ Volume 7 ¦ Issue 1
• Infective stent fractures with in-stent stenosis: Case series. International Journal of      Biomedical Research 2017; 8(04): 224-227
• Novel Consensus Splice Site Pathogenic Variation in THOC2 Gene Leads to Recurrent Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita Phenotype: A Case Report. Cureus 2021 Nov 17;13(11): e19682. Epub 2021 Nov 17

Memberships:

Memberships:

• Life member- Indian Radiology and Imaging Association
• Life member – Indian Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
• Member – American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
• Member- Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Society- India
• Secretary: Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Society- India