Dr V Mohan

  • Home
  • About Dr V Mohan
Dr V Mohan

Dr. V Mohan

About

DR V MOHAN

DR.V. MOHAN, M.D., FRCP (London, Edinburgh, Glasgow & Ireland), Ph.D., D.Sc. D.Sc (Hon. Causa), FNASc, FASc, FNA, FACE, FACP, FTWAS, MACP, FRSE

Dr. V. Mohan is the Chairman and Chief of Diabetology at Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Specialities Centre at Chennai in South India which is an IDF Centre of Excellence in Diabetes Care. Dr. Mohan oversees a chain of 48 diabetes centres across 8 states of India and has over 500,000 registered diabetes patients in his centres,. He is also President and Director of the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation which is Asia’s largest stand alone diabetes research centre.

Deeply interested in research from his undergraduate medical student days, Dr. Mohan has published over 1290 papers in peer reviewed journals. This includes 842 original articles, 287 review articles and invited editorials and 161 chapters to text-books on Diabetes. His research has attracted over 121,542 citations. His research has a ‘h index’ of 128.

Dr. Mohan has trained over a large number of physicians & diabetologists in addition to Nurses, Educators and Technicians. Dr. Mohan has received over 180 awards including the prestigious Dr. B.C. Roy National Award by the Medical Council of India and the Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Centenary Award from the Indian Council of Medical Research, the highest award for Biomedical research in India. He was conferred the Dr. Harold Rifkin Distinguished International Service in the Cause of Diabetes Award by the American Diabetes Association and he is the first Indian to receive this award. Recently he has been conferred the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE). . Dr. Mohan is one of the few medical doctors in India to have been awarded the FRSE.
For his extensive contribution in the field of diabetes, in 2012 Dr. Mohan was awarded the prestigious Padma Shri by the Govt. of India.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

Publications

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

BOOKS PUBLISHED