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Hire Thirumaran S.

Canada

MBBS, MPH, CCRP | Public Health Researcher & Certified Clinical Research Professional

Profile Summary

🌟 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 🌟 With a passion for public health and clinical research, I am dedicated to bridging the gap between data-driven insights and actionable health interventions. My mission is to improve population health outcomes by addressing social determinants, streamlining clinical trials, and fostering equitable healthcare solutions globally. 🚀 𝗗𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗯𝘆 𝗣𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲 What fuels my work is the belief that healthcare systems can and must evolve to address the unique challenges of diverse communities. Through meticulous research, collaboration, and an unwavering commitment to quality, I aim to contribute to innovations that save lives and empower communities.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Clinical Trials
• ★ Clinical Trial Site Selection & Monitoring
• ★ Epidemiology
• ☆ IRB Applications
• ☆ Clinical Trial Design
• ☆ Patient Recruitment
• ☆ Clinical Data Management
• ☆ Clinical Trials Data Analysis
• ☆ Infectious Disease
• ☆ Viral Diseases
• ☆ COVID-19
• ☆ Antibiotic Resistance Research
• ☆ Pulmonology/Respiratory Disease
• ☆ Tuberculosis
• ☆ Public Health
• ☆ Regulatory Affairs
• ☆ Research Methodology

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Clinical Trial Documentation, Medical Writing

Research Scientific and Technical Research

Consulting Healthcare Consulting

Data & AI Data Cleaning

Work Experience

Sponsored Researcher

NYU Langone Health

January 2025 - Present

Graduate Student Researcher

Columbia University

January 2024 - September 2024

Scientist - C (Medical)

ICMR - National Institute of Epidemiology

April 2023 - August 2023

Trial Physician & Clinical Trial Manager

ICMR-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis

September 2017 - October 2022

Physician

GVK Emergency Management and Research Institute

July 2016 - July 2017

Medical Officer

KMA Nursing Home

July 2014 - June 2016

Education

MPH (General Public Health)

Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

September 2023 - October 2024

MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery)

Rajah Muthaiah Medical College Hospital

September 2007 - February 2013

Certifications

• Certified Clinical Research Professional

  SOCRA

  April 2023 - Present

• Registered Medical Practitioner

  Tamil Nadu Medical Council (TNMC), India

  March 2013 - Present

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Prediction of mortality and prioritisation to tertiary care using the ‘OUR-ARCad’ risk score gleaned from the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic—A retrospective cohort study from South India @article{Gopalan_2025, title={Prediction of mortality and prioritisation to tertiary care using the ‘OUR-ARCad’ risk score gleaned from the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic—A retrospective cohort study from South India}, volume={20}, ISSN={1932-6203}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0312993}, DOI={10.1371/journal.pone.0312993}, number={1}, journal={PLOS ONE}, publisher={Public Library of Science (PLoS)}, author={Gopalan, Narendran and Viswanathan, Vinod Kumar and Srinivasalu, Vignes Anand and Arumugam, Saranya and Bhaskar, Adhin and Manoharan, Tamizhselvan and Chandrasekar, Santosh Kishor and Bujagaruban, Divya and Arumugham, Ramya and Jagadeeswaran, Gopi and Pandian, Saravanan Madurai and Ponniah, Arunalatha and Senguttuvan, Thirumaran and Chinnaiyan, Ponnuraja and Dhanraj, Baskaran and Chadha, Vineet Kumar and Purushotham, Balaji and Murhekar, Manoj Vasanth}, editor={Gosavi, Siddharth}, year={2025}, month=jan, pages={e0312993} } . PLOS ONE.

Manickam Ponnaiah, Tarun Bhatnagar, Rizwan Suliankachi Abdulkader, Rajalakshmi Elumalai, Janani Surya, Kathiresan Jeyashree, Muthusamy Santhosh Kumar, Ranjithkumar Govindaraju, Jeromie Wesley Vivian Thangaraj, Hari Krishan Aggarwal, et al. (2024). Authors’ response . Indian Journal of Medical Research.

Manickam Ponnaiah, Tarun Bhatnagar, Rizwan Suliankachi Abdulkader, Rajalakshmi Elumalai, Janani Surya, Kathiresan Jeyashree, Muthusamy Santhosh Kumar, Ranjithkumar Govindaraju, Jeromie Wesley Vivian Thangaraj, Hari Krishan Aggarwal, et al. (2023). Authors’ response . Indian Journal of Medical Research.

Factors associated with unexplained sudden deaths among adults aged 18-45 years in India – A multicentric matched case–control study @article{Ponnaiah_2023, title={Factors associated with unexplained sudden deaths among adults aged 18-45 years in India – A multicentric matched case–control study}, volume={158}, ISSN={0975-9174}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmr.ijmr_2105_23}, DOI={10.4103/ijmr.ijmr_2105_23}, number={4}, journal={Indian Journal of Medical Research}, publisher={Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)}, author={Ponnaiah, Manickam and Bhatnagar, Tarun and Abdulkader, Rizwan Suliankachi and Elumalai, Rajalakshmi and Surya, Janani and Jeyashree, Kathiresan and Kumar, Muthusamy Santhosh and Govindaraju, Ranjithkumar and Thangaraj, Jeromie Wesley Vivian and Aggarwal, Hari Krishan and Balan, Suresh and Baruah, Tridip Dutta and Basu, Ayan and Bavaskar, Yogita and Bhadoria, Ajeet Singh and Bhalla, Ashish and Bhardwaj, Pankaj and Bhat, Rachana and Chakravarty, Jaya and Chandy, Gina Maryann and Gupta, Bal Kishan and Kakkar, Rakesh and Karnam, Ali Hasan Faiz and Kataria, Sushila and Khambholja, Janakkumar and Kumar, Dewesh and Kumar, Nithin and Lyngdoh, Monaliza and Meena, M. Selva and Mehta, Kedar and Sheethal, M. P. and Mukherjee, Subhasis and Mundra, Anuj and Murugan, Arun and Narayanan, Seetharaman and Nathan, Balamurugan and Ojah, Jutika and Patil, Pushpa and Pawar, Sunita and Ruban, A. Charles Pon and Vadivelu, R. and Rana, Rishabh Kumar and Boopathy, S. Nagendra and Priya, S. and Sahoo, Saroj Kumar and Shah, Arti and Shameem, Mohammad and Shanmugam, Karthikeyan and Shivnitwar, Sachin K. and Singhai, Abhishek and Srivastava, Saurabh and Sulgante, Sudheera and Talukdar, Arunansu and Verma, Alka and Vohra, Rajaat and Wani, Rabbanie Tariq and Bathula, Bhargavi and Kumari, Gayathri and Kumar, Divya Saravana and Narasimhan, Aishwariya and Krupa, N. C. and Senguttuvan, Thirumaran and Surendran, Parvathi and Tamilmani, Dharsikaa and Turuk, Alka and Kumar, Gunjan and Murkherjee, Aparna and Aggarwal, Rakesh and Murhekar, Manoj Vasant}, year={2023}, month=sep, pages={351–362} } . Indian Journal of Medical Research.

Thirumaran Senguttuvan, Ruth L Goodall, Sarah K Meredith, Andrew J Nunn, Adamu Bayissa, Anuj K Bhatnagar, Gay Bronson, Chen-Yuan Chiang, Francesca Conradie, Meera Gurumurthy, et al. (2022). Evaluation of two short standardised regimens for the treatment of rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (STREAM stage 2): an open-label, multicentre, randomised, non-inferiority trial . The Lancet.

Thirumaran Senguttuvan, Narendran Gopalan, Gopal Krishna Dhali, Sumathi Senthil, Narmadha Lakshmi Prabakar, Adhin Bhaskar, Muthukumaran Jagannathan, Ravi Sivaraman, Jayalakshmi Ramasamy, Ponnuraja Chinnaiyan, et al. (2022). Predictors of mortality among hospitalized COVID-19 patients and risk score formulation for prioritizing tertiary care—An experience from South India . PLOS ONE.

Thirumaran Senguttuvan, Narendran Gopalan, Selvakumar Subbian, Vignes Anand Srinivasalu, Ponnuraja Chinnayan, Banurekha Velayutham, Adhin Bhaskar, Ramesh Santhanakrishnan, Sridhar Rathinam, Mahilmaran Ayyamperumal, et al. (2021). Predictors of unfavorable responses to therapy in rifampicin-sensitive pulmonary tuberculosis using an integrated approach of radiological presentation and sputum mycobacterial burden . PLOS ONE.

Thirumaran Senguttuvan, Gopalan Narendran, Keerthana Jyotheeswaran, Caian L. Vinhaes, Ramesh K. Santhanakrishnan, Tamizhselvan Manoharan, Anbhalagan Selvaraj, Padmapriyadarsini Chandrasekaran, Pradeep A. Menon, Kannabiran P. Bhavani, et al. (2020). Characteristics of paradoxical tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome and its influence on tuberculosis treatment outcomes in persons living with HIV . International Journal of Infectious Diseases.

REVIEW

Thirumaran Senguttuvan (2022). TUBERCULOSIS AND TOBACCO SMOKING – INDIA’S VERY OWN SYNDEMICS . The Tamil Nadu Journal of Public Health and Medical Research.