Padma Shri Dr. V. Mohan is an eminent Indian Diabetologist who has been working in the field of diabetes for over 30 years in Chennai in southern India. Dr. Mohan is the Chairman and Chief of Diabetology at Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Specialities Centre, a WHO Collaborating Centre for Non-communicable Diseases Prevention and Control and an IDF Centre of Education. He is also President and Director of the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation.
Dr. Mohan completed his undergraduate and postgraduate medical education from Madras Medical College, Chennai, India. He then worked as a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School and Hammersmith Hospital, London, U.K and later as an Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Ulm, West Germany. He was awarded a Ph.D. and later a Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) for his research on diabetes.
Together with his father, Dr. Mohan set up the first private diabetes centre in India in 1971 and continued to work at this centre till 1991. Dr. Mohan and his late wife Dr. Rema Mohan subsequently established their own diabetes centres under the name of “Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Specialities Centre”. Dr. Mohan and his colleagues currently oversee 15 diabetes centres and clinics in southern India and one at Muscat in Oman and over 300,000 diabetic patients have been registered at these centres.
In 1996, Dr. Mohan established the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (MDRF) in Asia. His research combines clinical, epidemiological and genomic aspects of diabetes. He has published nearly 834 papers including over 516 original research articles in peer reviewed journals, over 120 chapters in text books on diabetes, endocrinology and Internal Medicine and several invited reviews and editorials.
Dr. Mohan has received numerous awards and Fellowships for his accomplishments in the field of diabetology. These include the Padma Shri National Award one of the highest civilian awards given by the Govt. of India, the Dr. BC Roy Award from the Medical Council of India and the Basanti Devi Amir Chand Prize from the Indian Council of Medical Research. He also received the Wockhardt Award for Medical Excellence from the Harvard Medical International, Boston. Dr. Mohan has been conferred Fellowships by all the four Royal Colleges of Physicians of London, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Ireland and Fellowships of all three Scientific Academics of India.
Dr. Mohan’s work has been recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) which has nominated his centre as a “WHO Collaborating Centre for Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases” as well as by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) which nominated his centre as an “IDF Centre of Education”. He also serves on the Steering Committee of the Govt. of India’s National Program for Prevention and Control of Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke (NPDCS) and on several other national scientific organizations. He is also a WHO Consultant on Diabetes and serves on several committees of the International Diabetes Federation.
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