Curriculum Vitae

DR. NOVINTH KUMAR A/L RAJA RAM

Medical Lecturer
  • Department of Surgery
    Faculty of Medicine
  • novinth
  • 0124501285

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION


  • DocGenSurg, (General Surgery)
    Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (ukm)
  • MBBS, (Medicine and Surgery)
    Manipal Academy of Higher Education (mahe), India

ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES


  • Coordinator
    03 Sep 2024 - 02 Sep 2026 (University Malaya)

MEMBERSHIPS


  • JUNIOR INTERNATIONAL MEMBER, EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF UROLOGY, MEMBER
    2025 to present (International)
  • LIFE MEMBER, ACADEMY OF MEDICINE, MALAYSIA, MEMBER
    Since 2023 (National)

PUBLICATIONS


Article in Journal
WoS
  1. Khern, Wei Chern; Rajandram, Retnagowri; Ram, Novinth Kumar Raja; Kuppusamy, Shanggar (2025). Comparative efficacy and safety of energy coagulation in radiation-induced hemorrhagic cystitis: A narrative review, INVESTIGATIVE AND CLINICAL UROLOGY. 66(2), 97-105. doi:10.4111/icu.20240288
  2. Abouelazayem, Mohamed; Jain, Rajesh; Wilson, Michael S. J.; Martinino, Alessandro; Balasubaramaniam, Vignesh; Biffl, Walter; Coccolini, Federico; Riera, Manel; Wadhawan, Himanshu; Wazir, Ishaan; Abderaouf, Bettahar; Abramov, Daniil; Abu Jayyab, Mustafa A.; Al-Shami, Khayry; Alfarwan, Ahmad; Alhajami, Faris M.; Alkaseek, Akram; Alozairi, Ous; Ammar, Ahmed Siddique; Atar, Burak; Baatarjav, Gan-Erdene; Bains, Lovenish; Bakri, Ashraf; Bayramov, Nuru; Bhojwani, Rajesh; Brachini, Gioia; Calini, Giacomo; Campanelli, Michela; Cheng, Shi Yu; Choudhary, Charan Singh; Chowdhury, Sharfuddin; Colak, Elif; Das, Jayanta Kumar; Dawani, Surrendar; Donmez, Turgut; Elzayat, Ibrahim; Erdene, Sarnai; Faizi, Tashaba Qaiser; Frountzas, Maximos; Gafsi, Besma; Gentileschi, Paolo; Guler, Mert; Gupta, Gaurav; Harkati, Nour Elhouda; Harris, Matthew; Hasan, Doaa M.; Irowa, Omorodion Omoruyi; Jafferi, Salman; Jain, Sumita Agarwal; Han, Lai Jun; Kandiboyina, Satyanarayana Murthy; Karabulut, Mehmetu; Khamees, Almu'atasim; Khan, Shahzeb; Khan, Madiha Masood; Khaw, Cheng Jing; Kisielewski, Michal; Klib, Mohamad; Kosir, Jurij A.; Krawczyk, Wiktor Jan; Lisi, Giorgio; Makama, Jerry Godfrey; Maqbool, Baila; Marques, Claudia Neves; Meric, Serhat; Mietla, Mateusz Przemyslaw; Ads, Alaa Mohamed; Muhumuza, Joshua; Mulita, Francesk; Mustafayeva, Matanat; Omar, Mohammed A.; Omarov, Taryel; Pathak, Akshant Anil; Paul, Ratnadeep; Pavone, Giovanna; Podda, Mauro; Ram, Novinth Kumar Raja; Rauf, Fatima; Rauf, Sidra; Safy, Ahmed Mohamed; Sandag, Erdene; Sanli, Ahmet Necati; Siddiqui, Adeela Z.; Sotiropoulou, Maria; Talib, Vikash; Tatar, Cihad; Thota, Anuroop; Tokocin, Merve; Tolat, Aditya; Uchikov, Petar Angelov; Valenzuela, Jose I.; Venkatappa, Sunil Kumar; Verras, Georgios-Ioannis; Vlahovic, Ivan; Zreeg, Dafer Abdulhakim S.; Cardoso, Victor Roth; Gkoutos, Georgios V.; Singhal, Rishi; Mahawar, Kamal (2024). Global 30-day morbidity and mortality of surgery for perforated peptic ulcer: GRACE study, SURGICAL ENDOSCOPY AND OTHER INTERVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES. 38(8), 4402-4414. doi:10.1007/s00464-024-10881-0
  3. Lim, Raymond Zhun Ming; Tan, Jih Huei; Ram, Novinth Kumar Raja; Tan, Henry Chor Lip; Ho, Ivan Khor Ee; Chuah, Jun Sen; Mahendran, Hans Alexander (2024). A comparative analysis of Charlson's weighted index of comorbidity and perforated peptic ulcer scores in predicting postoperative mortality and high comprehensive complication index, WORLD JOURNAL OF SURGERY. 48(6), 1373-1384. doi:10.1002/wjs.12162
Scopus
  1. Abouelazayem M., Jain R., Wilson M.S.J., Martinino A., Balasubaramaniam V., Biffl W., Coccolini F., Riera M., Wadhawan H., Wazir I., Abderaouf B., Abramov D., Abu Jayyab M.A., Al-Shami K., Alfarwan A., Alhajami F.M., Alkaseek A., Alozairi O., Ammar A.S., Atar B., Baatarjav G.-E., Bains L., Bakri A., Bayramov N., Bhojwani R., Brachini G., Calini G., Campanelli M., Cheng S.Y., Choudhary C.S., Chowdhury S., Colak E., Das J.K., Dawani S., Donmez T., Elzayat I., Erdene S., Faizi T.Q., Frountzas M., Gafsi B., Gentileschi P., Guler M., Gupta G., Harkati N.E., Harris M., Hasan D.M., Irowa O.O., Jafferi S., Jain S.A., Jun Han L., Kandiboyina S.M., Karabulut M., Khamees A., Khan S., Khan M.M., Khaw C.J., Kisielewski M., Klib M., Kosir J.A., Krawczyk W.J., Lisi G., Makama J.G., Maqbool B., Marques C.N., Meric S., Mietla M.P., Ads A.M., Muhumuza J., Mulita F., Mustafayeva M., Omar M.A., Omarov T., Pathak A.A., Paul R., Pavone G., Podda M., Raja Ram N.K., Rauf F., Rauf S., Safy A.M., Sandag E., Sanli A.N., Siddiqui A.Z., Sotiropoulou M., Talib V., Tatar C., Thota A., Tokocin M., Tolat A., Uchikov P.A., Valenzuela J.I., Venkatappa S.K., Verras G.-I., Vlahovic I., Zreeg D.A.S., Cardoso V.R., Gkoutos G.V., Singhal R., Mahawar K., Karim M.F.B.A., Raju M.R.A.L.A.M., Aamery A., Abbass A., Abdeewi S., Abdelaal A.H., Abdoun M., Rahim N.U.A., Abdulwahed E.A., Abizade R., Abu-Jeyyab M., Aceves-Ayala J.M., Acharya P., Acin-Gandara D., Adeyeye A.A., Adil M.T., Agbonrofo P.I., Ahjaaz M.A., Ahmad Z., Akay O., Al-Robaie B., Al-Shami M., Alabdallah N.B., Aldaher M., Aldirani A., Alhaboob N., Alhadi A., Ali Q.A., Zain A.A., Alharthi M., Alhashash A., Ali Ali A., Alkhalaf A.A., Allahverdiyeva N., Almaqdi S., Mushaweh H.A.A., Aloulou M., Alsafi S., Alshareea E.A., Alsori M., Alwi A.F.M., Aly M.M., Amaefuna K.D., Amer F.A.B., Aminu B., Anestiadou E., Arbutina D., Ari A., Arkadopoulos N., Arslan K., Ascencio-Diaz K.V., Ascencio E.V.R., Askari A., Abdullah N.R., Attoum A.R., Atumanyire J., Avalos-Herrera V.J., Awad S.S., Azam A., Aziz S.S., Azouz J.S., Baccar M., Badawi M.M.A., Bahrudin S.B., Bakeer H.B., Bakewell Z., Baksi A., Balbola M., Balla A., Balluerca M., Barbosa J.A.L., Barbosa L.E.R., Barbosa-Camacho F.J., Barreira A.L., Bartosiak K., Basendowah M., Basheer M., Bashiru M.A., Basu S., Baxter Z., Toro J.A.B., Bello U.M., Bellou O., Benavoli D., Bermingham A., Bhalla B.S., Binnawara M.H., Boddy A., Bolota J.S., Bonatti L., Bonomi A.M., Boras Z., Bouaoud Bouaoud M.M., Bouaoud S., Bouchenak K., Bowman S., Bozkir H.O., Brancaccio-Perez I.V., Breda M., Carganico G., Caruana C., Centonze D., Cervantes-Guevara G., Cervantes-Perez E., Chandramohan J.C., Chaouch M.A., Cillara N., Cismasiu B., Cotsoglou C., Creavin B., D'acapito F., Dalloul N.A., Dapri G., Dardanov D., Das B.M., De Luca M., Degrate L., Demma J.A., Derwish K., Distefano C., Dogjani A., Dong Z., Donohoe C., Dorovinis P., Dulac A.S., Earley H., Edem S., El Boghdady M., Sayed M.A., Shamarka A.H., El-Houssari T.I., Elemile P.O., Elessi K., Elghadban H.M., Elgherwi L.K., Elghrieb A.E., El-Haddad M., Elhadi M., Elshaer A.M., Emejulu I.C., Enani G., Ercolani G., Erginoz E., Ethiraj S., Evola G., Faizul S.N.B., Felsenreich D.M., Zurita M.A.F., Festa F., Fiore A., Fishman Y., Firat M., Fouadla M., Framarini M., Frattini F., Fuentes-Orozco C., Gahramanova F., Genser L., Gerges F., Gerogiannis I.N., Gerwash A.A.S., Ghandour M., Ghazal A., Ghazal M., Gill A.A., Gineeb H.Y., Gioco R., Viswanath N.G., Gonsaga R.A.T., Gonzalez-Ojeda A., Y.Gonzalez-Ponce F., Goswami A.G., Graham Y., Granieri S., Grosek J., Gupta R., Gupta A., Guzey D., Guzman-Ramirez B.G., Guzman-Ruvalcaba M.J., Hamayun S., Hamid H.K.S., Hammadieh A.R., Hasan A., Haseeb A., Merican S.R.H.I., Hasirci I., Hazebroek E.J., Henriques S., Huda F., Ibarra-Camargo S.A., Idiz U.O., Iles K., Ioannidis O., Irmiya S.N., Jain V., Jan A., Jones C., Juli N.J.A., Justin A.C.B., Kapiris S., Kapsampelis P., Kaur S., Kavalakat A.J., Kayali A.A.H., Keramida M.D., Khan A.H., Khanduri A., Khatib R., Khattak S., Kim C.K., Kim G., Kokoropoulos P., Komorowska K., Kosir J.A., Kosti A., Kouicem A.T., A.Kouicem A.T., Kovacevic B., Krishnasamy S.K., Guler R.K., Kumar N., Kurtenkov M., Kykalos S., Kynjing H., Lapolla P., Larbi M.H., Lasheen O., Lee W.T., Lepiane P., Licciardello A., Lima R.R., Lodo E., Lorenc Z., Mabood W., Machairas N., Madhok B., Ali M.S.M., Mahdi A.S., Mahmoud H., Malibary N., Mallik D., Mammadova S., Mandic L., Mares-Pais R., Marom G., Marques C.N., Masri R.J., Masseria P., Mclean A.M., Hashim M.N.M., Kamal M.A.B.M., Medina-Garcia M., Megaache A., Mellado-Tellez M.P., Meneghello A.C., Michalopoulos N.V., Mingoli A., Mohalal M.S., Mohamad I.S., Mohamed S.T., Fadzil M.Z.B.M., Mohammad A., Montuori M., Mora-Santana D., Moris D., Mosanya A.O., Mousafeiris V., Mousli A., Mouzakis O., Muftah A.N., Nabavi T.F., Nadeesh A.E.A., Najar-Hinojosa R., Najjar M., Nasani M., Nastos C., Neary P.M., Negm A.R., Ochoa-Rodriguez I., Olmi S., Oriakhi S.-N.N., Orozco-Gallardo A.P., Osarenkhoe M.O., Ouyahia A.A., Ozcelik M.F., Ozdemir Z., Ozyalvac F.T., Papaconstantinou D., Papadia F.S., Papadoliopoulou M., Papadopoulos A., Papazacharias C., Parmar C., Paunero P., Pawan G., Quintero R.P., Pinotti E., Pisanu A., Popat S., Pournaras D., Pouwels S., Qassab O., Quaglino F., Anbarasan A.R.R., Rafique M., Rahman A., Rais M.M., Rajayokiam M.R., Rajput D., Ramely R., Ramirez-Gonzalez L.R., Ramu G., Reslan N., Riccioli G., Rohith V.N., Ronoh K.S., Roshan H., Ruelas-Bravo C., Ruiz-Ucar E., Sabir A., Sabrin N.A., Sabry A.A., Sahin M.E., Said A., Sakran N., Salem Y.M., Salleh S.A., Sangpliang V., Sapry D.H., Savasta F.M.C., Sawaftah K.A., Pereira J.P.S., Schizas D., Sevik H., Shabbir A., Shahroz A., Shames H., Sharma A., Shet S., Shetiwy M.S., Shoma A., Sial F.M., Sidiropoulos T.A., Singh S.K., So J.B.Y., Soh J.Y., Solaini L., Soncini S., Soula E., Sousa F.F.S., Stella L., Suarez-Carreon L.O., Sugumar D., Swamad M., Syllaios A., Symeonidis S., Tabeti B., Tampaki E.C., Tartaglia N., Tay Y.Z., Yusof T.N.B.T., Tewari N., Tidjane A., Torre B., Uccelli M., Uccelli F.M.L., Uludag S.S., Ulutas M.E., Umar B.M., Usman H.M., Uwuigbe A., Vailas M., Vaz S.S.G., Vega-Gastelum J.O., Veroux M., Viswanath Y.K.S., Vlahovic I., Waledziak M., Mokhter W.M.W., Zain W.Z.W., Wang H., Warda H.H., Wei Z., Wong M.P.-K., Wong G.Y.M., Yahya M.M., Yang W., Yule M.S., Zakaria Z., Zakaria A.D., Zarate-Casas M.F., Zengin K., Zhang J. (2024). Global 30-day morbidity and mortality of surgery for perforated peptic ulcer: GRACE study, Surgical endoscopy. 38(8), 4402-4414. doi:10.1007/s00464-024-10881-0
  2. Lim R.Z.M., Raja Ram N.K., Tan J.H., Chan K.K., Abu Bakar A. (2024). SURGICAL TIMING FOR BLEEDING SIGMOID COLON ADENOCARCINOMA AFTER CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT: A DUAL CASE EXPERIENCE AND REVIEW OF LITERATURE IN PAST TWO DECADES, Journal of Health and Translational Medicine. 27(1), 74-78. doi:10.22452/jummec.vol27no1.11
  3. Lim R.Z.M., Tan J.H., Raja Ram N.K., Tan H.C.L., Ho I.K.E., Chuah J.S., Mahendran H.A. (2024). A comparative analysis of Charlson's weighted index of comorbidity and perforated peptic ulcer scores in predicting postoperative mortality and high comprehensive complication index, World Journal of Surgery. . doi:10.1002/wjs.12162
Article in Proceeding
  1. Kumar N, Nazran A, Kuppusamy S.(2024) Pain relief by application oftranscutaneous electrical nervestimulation (TENS) duringtransrectal ultrasound guided(TRUS) prostate biopsy: the early experience. MUC Abstracts. BJU Int, 134: 4-41
  2. Wei Chern Khern, Novinth Kumar, Retnagowri Rajandram, Shanggar Kuppusamy. Comparative Efficacy and Safety of Energy Coagulation in Radiation-Induced Hemorrhagic Cystitis: A Narrative Review. BJUI 2024: 134: S1, p4-41. doi.org/10.1111/bju.16560

RESEARCH PROJECT


University
  1. 2024 - 2026, University Grant
    Pain Relief by Applying Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) during Transrectal Ultrasound Guided (TRUS) Prostate Biopsy: A Randomized Double-blind Placebo-controlled Trial ( Principal Investigator(PI))

ACADEMIC/ PROF. SERVICES


Contribution to event
  1. (2024) Instructor, International, (Course Facilitator)

SUPERVISION


Postgraduate Student
  1. (2024) PAIN RELIEF BY APPLYING TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRICAL NERVE STIMULATION TENS DURING TRANSRECTAL ULTRASOUND GUIDED TRUS PROSTATE BIOPSY: A RANDOMIZED DOUBLE-BLIND PLACEBO-CONTROLLED TRIAL, SHARVIN A/L S.SIVALINGAM

COURSE ATTENDED


Internal/ External Course
  1. EMERALD TEACHING AND LEARNING 1/2024, UNIVERSITI MALAYA (19 Feb 2024 - 23 Feb 2024)