Anoop Misra

Anoop Misra
Born India
Occupation Endocrinologist
Known for Diabetology
Awards Padma Shri
Dr. B. C. Roy Award
IIE Bharat Shiromani Puruskar
Rotary Award for the Excellence
Spirit of Humnaity Award
Swastha Bharat Samman
Website anoopmisra.com

Anoop Misra is an Indian endocrinologist and a former honorary physician to the Prime Minister of India.[1] He is the chairman of Fortis Centre for Diabetes, Obesity and Cholesterol (C-DOC) and heads the department of Internal Medicine at the New Delhi centre of Fortis Healthcare.[2] A former Fellow of the World Health Organization at the Royal Free Hospital, UK, Misra is a recipient of the Dr. B. C. Roy Award, the highest Indian award in the medical category.[3] The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2007, for his contributions to Indian medicine.[4]

Biography

Misra graduated in medicine (MBBS) from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi (AIIMS) and continued his studies there to secure an MD in Internal Medicine.[5] He has worked in many known medical institutions in the US and in India as a consultant or as a faculty member. In the US, he worked as a member of faculty at the Department of Endocrinology and Human Nutrition of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and as a Fellow of the World Health Organization at Department of Diabetes and Cardiovascular Risk of the Royal Free Hospital, UK.[6] In India, he worked as an adjunct faculty at the Indian Institute of Advanced Research, Gandhinagar, before shifting to New Delhi, to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi where he worked for 10 years and was the Head of Diabetes and Metabolism Group as well as the Clinical Pharmacology Unit when he moved to the Fortis Rajan Dhall Hospital as the Director of the Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases.[7]

Misra is known to have been involved in advanced researches in the fields of Diabetes and Obesity and is reported to have introduced novel definitions for obesity.[6] His research interests included abdominal obesity and Syndrome X in Indians and is credited with the development of a new test for monitoring Diabetes. He was a part of several research projects on the subject[6] and his researches have been documented by way of over 300 articles published in peer reviewed journals.[1] He is also associated with 15 scientific publications as a member of their editorial boards and has written editorials for The Lancet on three occasions.[1] He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Elsevier and is the Associate Editor of Diabetic Medicine and Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome: Research and Reviews, two known journals. Besides, he is a reviewer of 30 journals and Circulation and The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism are present among them.[1][8]

Misra has served two Indian Prime Ministers as their honorary physician[1] and has delivered many award lectures; S. N. Tripathy Memorial Oration, Prof. Austin E. Doyle Oration (2004), Dr K. L. Wig Oration (2005), Sam G. Moses Oration (2005), Prof. B. R. Sengupta Oration (2005), Searle Oration (2006), Amar Sen Oration (2006), D. K. Pal Chowdhary Oration (2006), Kamala Puri Sabharwal Oration (2007), Dr O. P.Gupta Oration (2007), Amrit Mody Oration (2008) and V. Ramalingaswami Oration (2009) are a few of them.[7][9] In 2006, the Medical Council of India awarded him Dr. B. C. Roy Award, the highest Indian award in the medical category.[10] He received one more award the same year, the President's Award of Excellence of the Rotary International, South and East Delhi chapter.[11] The next year, he was listed among the Republic Day Honorees by the Government of India, for the fourth highest civilian award of the Padma Shri.[4] In 2009, the Indian Economics Institute awarded him the Bharat Shiromani Puruskar.[5] The next year he received two more awards, the 2010 Swastha Bharat Samman and the Spirit of Humanity Award of Americare Foundation.[11]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Anoop Misra on Herbalife". Herbalife Nutrition. 2016. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Anoop Misra on Fortis". Fortis Healthcare. 2016. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Expert Profile". ND TV. 2016. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
  4. 1 2 "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2016. Retrieved January 3, 2016.
  5. 1 2 "On My Doc Advisor". My Doc Advisor. 2016. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
  6. 1 2 3 "Dr Anoop Misra – Diabetologist". Medical Tourism Corporation. 2016. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
  7. 1 2 "Anoop Misra on Pistachio". Pistachio Health Institute. 2016. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
  8. ↑ "Science Behind Products". Lose weight why wait. 2016. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
  9. ↑ "Anoop Mishra on Sehat". Sehat. 2016. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
  10. ↑ "B.C. Roy awards for 55 doctors". The Hindu. 2 July 2008. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
  11. 1 2 "President's Award of Excellence". Credihealth. 2016. Retrieved January 6, 2016.

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