Dr. Brij Mohan Makkar
Dr. Brij Mohan Makkar is a Senior Diabetes & Bariatric Physician and Director of Dr Makkar’s Diabetes and Obesity Centre at New Delhi, India.
Dr. Makkar is currently Hony. Secretary of RSSDI(Research Society for the Study of Diabetes in India). He is also Past Chairman of RSSDI Delhi Chapter, Hony Treasurer of RSSDI national body, a member of the executive board of DiabetesIndia, and Hony Secretary of Indian Obesity Network.
He is a fellow of Indian College of Physicians, Royal College of Physicians (Glasgow), American College of Physicians, and American College of Endocrinology(FACE).
His areas of interest are Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolic syndrome. He is widely travelled and his international exposure in diabetes includes centres at UCSF San Francisco and San Diego, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA; John Hopkins, Baltimore, USA; Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, USA; and Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Oxford, UK. He has a keen interest in education and is a certified trainer for Staged Diabetes Management Program from International Diabetes Centre, Minneapolis. Dr. Makkar is also Indian Course Director for Cleveland Clinic Certificate courses in Diabetes in India and has been organizing these courses in collaboration with Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA, for last 8 year. He had been regional faculty for PHFI’s CCEBDM and CCGDM courses in India.
Dr. Makkar is a member by “special invitation” to American Diabetes Association, member of AACE, EASD, and Canadian obesity research network. He was also member of International Committee of AACE-2014,2016-17 and AACE Bussiness Opportunities Committee for 2016-2017.
Dr Makkar has a number of publications to his credit including consensus recommendations for management of type 2 diabetes in India and for SMBG in type 1 and type 2 diabetes.