Shaleena Chooromoney
Course Director
Dr Shaleena Chooromoney is Consultant in Charge at the department of Clinical and Radiation Oncology at the National Cancer Centre, Victoria Hospital, Mauritius.
She completed her MBBS from Lady Hardinge Medical college, Delhi University, India, and received her postgraduate degree in Radiotherapy and Radiation Medicine from the Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.
She has been serving the Government of Mauritius since 1997 and has been in the field of Oncology for the last 20 years.
Apart from being the Coordinator of the National Cancer Control Programme 2022-2025 and a member of the National Cancer registry committee, she has been nominated as the IAEA project counterpart in Mauritius for ongoing national as well as AFRA projects.
She was given the responsibility of setting up the National Cancer centre in Mauritius where she was given the opportunity of sharing her expertise and supervising the operationalization of the centre
She has special interest in gynecological malignancies and breast cancer amongst other.
She is a board member sitting on different medical boards like occupational, pharmacy, and overseas board, held under the Ministry of Health & Wellness.
She is amongst the consultants who have started and developed the first multidisciplinary tumour board to streamline patient treatment and follow up care in Mauritius.
Along with the clinical and administrative work, she is involved in cancer awareness dissemination through mass media in Mauritius.