Awards
Excellent Teacher Award 2025 , Medical Science Division.
Winner of Vice-Chancellor Award 2024, Digital Synergy: Unleashing Dynamic and Inclusive Anatomy Education Inclusive Teaching and Assessment Award at the Vice Chancellor’s Awards 2024.
EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS
- Em-brio: dynamic development with drawings and animations EmbriOx
- AI-Assisted Annotations for Histology Practicals
- Project Pipeline
- 3D Model Reconstruction from The Medical Images for Educational Training. msdlt - Sketchfab
- Biomedical Students Project
- Case Study 1
- Case Study 2
Sharmila Saran Rajendran
Departmental Lecturer in Anatomy
- I contribute academic leadership and subject expertise to facilitate the development and delivery of the curriculum of anatomy teaching in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences;
- I provide lectures and contribute to the organisation and delivery of laboratory-based teaching.
- I provide support colleagues to ensure that the appropriate materials, competencies and knowledge are available to deliver teaching relating to anatomy;
- I develop and champion novel digital approaches to the delivery of the anatomy curriculum;
- I contribute to the business of relevant course committees and to the ongoing development of the Medicine and Biomedical Sciences courses in respect of anatomy;
- I periodically serve as an examiner for University examinations, including the First BM;
- I organise the collection, analysis and reporting of student feedback to ensure that high standards in anatomical education are maintained, enhancing the experience of students and their training for clinical practice;
- I identify and exploit opportunities to extend the use of the anatomy facility to to clinicians and other allied healthcare professionals and to other non-medical groups;
- I develop links with the clinical departments for teaching and curriculum development.
Websites
Recent publications
The physiology and pharmacology of the lower urinary tract
Journal article
Smilevska R. et al, (2025), Surgery (Oxford), 43, 370 - 377
From Cadavers to Neural Networks: A Narrative Review on Artificial Intelligence Tools in Anatomy Teaching
Journal article
Sirasanagandla SR. et al, (2025), Education Sciences, 15
Abstracts from the Anatomical Society Winter meeting, 3rd-5th January 2024, Liverpool, UK.
Journal article
(2024), J Anat, 245, 797 - 812
Multiple Anatomical Variations in an Upper Limb-A Case Report
Journal article
Saran S. et al, (2014), Medical Science, 2, 93 - 93
Nimesulide induced histopathological changes in the vas deferens of mice.
Journal article
Balaji T. et al, (2013), J Clin Diagn Res, 7, 2116 - 2118

