Dr Amudha Kadirvelu

Profile Summary

Dr Amudha Kadirvelu is a pharmacologist with clinical background. After completing her MBBS in India, she pursued her doctorate in University of Malaya. Her PhD focused on the clinical physiology and pharmacology of vascular function in health and disease. Her research takes a multi-disciplinary approach to the understanding of pathophysiology and management of cardiovascular diseases. Her research interests include medical education, ethnic variations in cardiovascular drug responses and chronic disease management.

Dr Amudha was employed by Monash University Malaysia-School of Medicine in its inception stages and since, has made exceptional and sustained service contributions including a leading role in securing Australian Medical Council and Malaysian Medical Council accreditation for the Monash Malaysia MBBS program. She is currently the Deputy Head of Medical School (Education).

Dr Amudha has more than 10 years of teaching experience at the Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Her teaching philosophy is based on pragmatic pedagogy that is strongly characterized by integrating theory with an applied approach to management of a patient in a real-world situation. Dr Amudha has been recognized with the Dean’s award for excellence in education for quality of teaching, Teaching Excellence Award by the Faculty of Pharmacy and 3 PVC’s awards for her innovations and contributions to student learning.

Academic qualifications

• MBBS, 1994, Medicine Vijayanagar Institute of Medical Sciences, India
• PhD, 2004, Cardiovascular Pharmacology,  University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• GCHPE, 2010, Medical Education, Monash University Australia

Affiliations

• Member, National Heart Association of Malaysia
• Member, Malaysian Society of Physiology and Pharmacology

Research Interests

Medical education, Ethnic variations in cardiovascular drug responses and Chronic disease management.

Publications

Alene Sze Jing Yong, Parasakthi Navaratnam, Amudha Kadirvelu, Naganathan Pillai. Re-Emergence of Malaria in Malaysia: A Review. Open Access Library Journal, 2018; 5: e4298.

Kwadwo Osei Bonsu, Isaac Kofi Owusu, Kwame Ohene Buabeng, Daniel Diamond Reidpath, Amudha Kadirvelu. Statin Treatment and Clinical Outcomes of Heart Failure Among Africans: An Inverse Probability Treatment Weighted Analysis. J Am Heart Assoc. 2017;6(4). pii: e004706. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.116.004706.

Kwadwo Osei Bonsu, Isaac Kofi Owusu, Kwame Ohene Buabeng, Daniel Diamond Reidpath, Amudha Kadirvelu. Clinical characteristics and prognosis of patients admitted for heart failure: A 5-year retrospective study of African patients. Int J Cardiol. 2017;238:128-135. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2017.03.014.

Kwadwo Osei Bonsu, Isaac Kofi Owusu, Kwame Ohene Buabeng, Daniel Diamond Reidpath, Amudha Kadirvelu. Review of novel therapeutic targets for improving heart failure treatment based on experimental and clinical studies. Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management. 2016;12:887-906.

Bonsu KO, Reidpath DD, Kadirvelu A. Lipophilic Statin Versus Rosuvastatin (Hydrophilic) Treatment for Heart Failure: a Meta-Analysis and Adjusted Indirect Comparison of Randomised Trials. Cardiovasc Drugs Ther. 2016 Apr;30(2):177-88. doi: 10.1007/s10557-015-6636-z.

Sheeba Jenifer · S. Parasuraman · Amudha Kadirvelu. Contrast enhancement and brightness preserving of digital mammograms using fuzzy clipped contrast - limited adaptive histogram equalization algorithm. Applied Soft Computing 42 · February 2016.

Amudha Kadirvelu · Sunil Gurtu. Integrated Learning in Medical Education: Are Our Students Ready? Medical Science Educator · September 2015. Applied Soft Computing 42 · February 2016.DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2016.01.039

B Williams, S Sadasivan, A Kadirvelu. Malaysian Medical Students' self-reported Empathy: A cross-sectional Comparative Study. The Medical journal of Malaysia 04/2015; 70(2):76-80.

Kwadwo Osei Bonsu, Daniel Diamond Reidpath, Amudha Kadirvelu. Effects of Statin Treatment on Inflammation and Cardiac Function in Heart Failure: An Adjusted Indirect Comparison Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials Cardiovascular Therapeutics 08/2015; 33(6).

Amudha Kadirvelu & Sunil Gurtu. Integrated Learning in Medical Education: Are Our Students Ready? Medical Science Educator. 09/2015.

Sheeba Jenifer, S Parasuraman, Amudha Kadirvelu. An Efficient Biomedical Imaging Technique for Automatic Detection of Abnormalities in Digital Mammograms. Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics 04/2014; Volume 4(2):291-296.

Brett Williams, Sivalal Sadasivan, Amudha Kadirvelu, Alexander Olaussen. Empathy levels among first year Malaysian medical students: an observational study. 05/2014; Advances in Medical Education and Practice 2014:5 149–156(5):149-156.

Jia Xuan Ooi, Kai Xuan Teh, Cai Liam Tam, Sivalal Sadasivan, Amudha Kadirvelu. Passive Smoking: Perceptions and Practices among Urban Working Adults. International Journal of Research on Internal Medicine & Public Health. 2014; Vol 6(6):160-167.

S Jenifer, S Parasuraman, A Kadirvelu.  An Efficient Biomedical Imaging Technique for Automatic Detection of Abnormalities in Digital Mammograms. Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics. 04/2014; Volume 4(2):291-296.

Bonsu KO, Kadirvelu A, Reidpath DD.  Re: Targeting NOS as a therapeutic approach for heart failure. Pharmacol Ther. 2014 Apr 22.

Williams B, Sadasivan S, Kadirvelu A, Olaussen A. Empathy levels among first year Malaysian medical students: an observational study. Adv Med Educ Pract. 2014 May 16;5:149-56.