Clin Asst Prof Babar Nazir

Dr Babar Nazir is a Senior Consultant Radiologist in Department of Oncologic Imaging at National Cancer Centre, Singapore. His main sub-speciality is Head and Neck Cancer imaging and his main focus is on the advanced Functional MR neuroimaging using Dynamic Contrast Enhancement MRI (DCE-MRI) to understand the microperfusion of brain tumors and the changes induced by radiation and chemotherapy treatment.

He is the recipient of the HMDP Fellowship Award, 2025 by Ministry of Health, Singapore.

He completed his MBBS from Aligarh Muslim University, India, from where he also received MD in Radio-diagnosis. He is Fellow of Royal College of Radiologists (UK) and he did Advanced Speciality Training in Diagnostic Radiology in Singapore. He received gold medals during his medical school training. Earlier he worked as Additional Consultant Radiologist at the Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Center, New Delhi, India where he was also involved in image-guided cancer interven-tions, clinical trials and worked as supervisor for Diplomate of National Board Trainees. He did clinical study on periprostatic nerve block for transrectal ultrasound guided prostate biopsy.

He is a member of the Singapore Radiological Society and the Radiological Sciences Academic Clinical Program, Singapore.

• MBBS, MD, FRCR (UK), AST (Advance Specialist Training, Radiology, Singapore)

• Melanotic neuroectodermal tumor of infancy: discussion of a case and a review of the imaging findings. B. Nazir, H. Gupta, A.K. Chaturvedi, S.A. Rao and A. Jena. Cancer Imaging Volume 9 Issue1. DOI: 10.1102/1470-7330.2009.0019 
• Image-guided Radiofrequency Ablation of Tumors: Current Status. B. Nazir, AK Chaturvedi, A Rao Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging 2003; 13:3:315-322. 
• Pain during Transrectal Ultrasound-Guided Prostate Biopsy and the Role of Periprostatic Nerve Block: What Radiologists Should Know. B. Nazir. Korean J Radiol. 2014 Sep-Oct; 15(5): 543–553. Korean J Radiol. 2014 Sep-Oct; 15(5): 543–553. Published online Sep 12, 2014. doi: 10.3348/kjr.2014.15.5.543 
• Isolated fallopian tube torsion in prepubertal females A Gupta, W Thida, B Nazir, C S W Yeo , Y Low , C L Ong. Med J Malaysia. 2015 Aug;70(4):259-62. 
• Diagnostic value of ultrasonography in evaluation and management of acute abdominal conditions in the paediatric age group Khalid M, Redhu N, Nazir B, Khalid S, Chana RS, Jha A Afr J Paediatr Surg 2012;9:198-201 
• Deep Learning for Lung Cancer Detection: Tackling the Kaggle Data Science Bowl 2017 Challenge Kingsley Kuan, Mathieu Ravaut, Gaurav Manek, Huiling Chen, Jie Lin, Babar Nazir, Cen Chen, Tse Chiang Howe, Zeng Zeng, Vijay Chandrasekhar. arXiv:1705.09435 [cs.CV] (or arXiv:1705.09435v1 https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1705.09435 
• Establishment of CT diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) for a Singapore healthcare cluster L Arlany 1, H G Toh 2, B Nazir 3, J J Ng 4, Y H Tay 5, Y S Tay 2, C J X Poon 6, L N Lee 2, W K S Fum 2, E Y T Lee 7, S I Mariah 8, M V Fortier 5, W P Tham 2, L L Chew 3, K H E Chong 7, L R Chong 6 Radiography (Lond) . 2023 Jan;29(1):184-189. doi: 10.1016/j.radi.2022.11.002. Epub 2022 Dec 5.