Dr. Ajmel A Puthawala, MD

Ajmel A. Puthawala, M.D. is a board certified cancer specialist in Radiation Oncology and the medical director of the Orange County CyberKnife and Radiation Oncology Center. He received his medical doctorate from Gujarat University in Ahmedabad, India. He completed his internship and residency in New York and then went on to serve as the chief resident at the University of San Diego Hospital. He is one of the internationally recognized pioneers in the field of brachytherapy and has held positions as an Attending Radiation Oncologist at both the Southern California Cancer Center/California Hospital and the Hospital of the Good Samaritan in Los Angeles. He has also been the Associate Director of Radiation Oncology, as well as the Clinical Hyperthermia Director, at the Todd Cancer Institute located at the Long Beach Memorial Medical Center in Long Beach, California. Dr. Puthawala is a Past President of the American Brachytherapy Society, a former editor of Brachytherapy, An International …Journal, and Endocurietherapy/Hyperthermia Oncology: An International Journal. He has been a Fellow of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, the American College of Radiation Oncology, and the American College of Radiology. He has published more than seventy articles in various peer reviewed medical journals. Dr. Puthawala retains memberships in numerous oncologic societies, both in the United States and Europe. He is on the medical staff at Orange Coast Memorial, Long Beach Memorial, and Saddleback Memorial Hospitals and is a clinical professor of radiation oncology at the University of California Irvine and the University of Southern California Los Angeles.