Dr Vengadasalam Murugam

About

Dr Venga is a Consultant at the Division of Supportive and Palliative Care, National Cancer Centre. He graduated from St George’s, University of London and returned to work in Singapore. He completed his internal medicine residency and MRCP (UK) in 2014 and palliative medicine advanced specialist training in 2018. He has a keen interest in the education and training within Palliative Medicine.

Education and Training

• 2008 St George’s, University of London, MBBS
• 2005 St George’s, University of London, BSc with First Class Honours in Basic Medical Sciences with Anatomy

Publications

• Radha Krishna LK, Murugam V, Quah DSC. The Practice of Terminal Discharge: Is it Euthanasia by Stealth? Nursing Ethics. First published online 4/1/17. DOI: 10.1177/0969733016687155
• Murugam V. Terminal Discharges and Euthanasia: Two Fundamentally Different Entities That Should Not be Likened To Each Other. Asian Bioethics Review Vol 8, Issue 4, Dec 2016. Pp 290-301
• Lawes, INC, Barrick TR, Murugam V, Spierings N, Evans DR, Song M, Clark CA. AtlasBased Segmentation of White Matter Tracts of the Human Brain using Diffusion Tensor Tractography and Comparison with Classical Dissection. NeuroImage 2007, doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.06.04