Research Interest
1. Anthropometry(Human subjects)
2. Variations in Blood vessels in Human Heart.
3. Morphometry & Morphology study of Human Bones.
4. Study of variations in structures while dissecting Human Cadavers.
Chethan Purushothama got his MBBS Degree from Rajiv Gandhi University,
Karnataka, India in 2002, & MD from manipal university, Manipal, India in 2009.
From 2009 till 2012 he has worked as Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Anatomy at
Manipal University. From 2012-2015 he worked in the Caribbean, at Medical
university of the Americas Teaching MD students Human Gross Anatomy & Human
Embryology. From 2015-2019 he was working at Nazarbayev university school of
medicine teaching MD students Human Gross Anatomy, Histology & embryology.
Currently he is working at SSH from 2019 till date. He is teaching undergraduates
Human Anatomy and Physiology.
In 2018 he was conferred Innovative teaching award at Nazarbayev University.
- Murlimanju, B., Purushothama, C., Srivastava, A., Kumar, C.,
Krishnamurthy, A., Blossom, V., Prabhu, L., Saralaya, V., & Pai, M.
Anatomical morphometry of the tibial plateau in South Indian
population. Italian Journal Of Anatomy And Embryology, 121(3), 258-
264. - Chethan Purushothama and Pai, Shakunthala R and Yagain, Vaishali
Kiran and *, Murlimanju BV and Tamang, Binod Kumar and Sarda,
Rohit Kumar (2014) A Study on Coronary Artery Dominance and
Divisions of Main Trunk of Left Coronary Artery in Adult Human
Cadaveric Hearts of South Indian Population. Annals of Health & Health
Sciences, 1 (1). pp. 50-54. - P.Chethan , B.V. Murlimanju, K.U. Prashanth, Latha V. Prabhu, Ashwin
Krishnamurthy, M.S. Somesh, C.GaneshKumar. Morphological analysis
and morphometry of the foramen magnum: an anatomical
investigation.Turkish Neurosurgery 2012, Vol: 22, No: 4, 416-419
• YAGAIN.V.K.;PAI,S.R.;KALTHUR,S.G.;CHETHAN,P.&
HEMALATHA,I.Study of cephalic index in Indian
students.Int.J.Morphol.,30(1):125-129,2012 - C Purushothama, RKSarda, A Konuri, BK Tamang, C Gupta, B Murlimanju. Morphological and Morphometric features of Scaphoid bone in North Eastern Population, India. Nepal Med Coll J 2011; 13(1):20-23.
- SHETTI, R. V.; PAI, S. R.; SNEHA, G. K.; GUPTA, C.; CHETHAN, P. SOUMYA. Study of prosopic (facial) index of Indian and Malaysian students. Int. J. Morphol., 29(3):1018-1021, 2011.
- Murlimanju BV, Nair N, Pai S, Pai M, P Chethan, Gupta C. Morphological study of the menisci of the knee joint in adult cadavers of the South Indian population. Marmara Medical Journal 2010; 23(2): 270-275.
- Murlimanju BV, Nair N, Kumar B, Krishnamurthy A, Gupta C, Chethan P. Clinically oriented Morphometric study of medial and lateral menisci of the knee joint in adult cadavers(Accepted in clinical therapeutics journal in press for publication).