Clinical career: - Senior Consultant Endocrinologist; Clinical Lead for Obesity Service, Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, and clinical research in Endocrinology & Metabolism at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (a 1000 bedded tertiary teaching hospital of the University of Manchester, UK) since 2018. - UK trained Consultant in Endocrinology & Metabolism since 2015 - Trained Internist from India with academic clinical, teaching & research experience since post-graduation in 2001 working as Associate Professor & Consultant in Medicine at Tata Memorial Hospital Mumbai (the renowned National Oncology institute) before moving to UK in 2010 for Endocrine fellowship training program - Special clinical and research interests: Obesity, Diabesity, Neuroendocrinology, Hypertension & Parathyroid Disease. Academic career: - Researcher in Medicine since 2001 & Endocrine and metabolic disorders since 2010 producing 115 peer reviewed academic publications including top medical journals including the New England Journal of Medicine and BMJ. Total number of citations to date: 3100 with an h-index of 32 and i-10 index of 55 - Total research grands procured to date: 1 million GBP - Honorary Professor to Manchester Metropolitan University since 2021 March and Clinical Chair to the University's multinational foot research project; Co-chair to the European sarcopenia research project. Academic Advisor in Endocrinology (Preston Hospital site) to the Manchester University Medical School since July 2021 - Scientific peer reviewer to several high-profile medical journals including WJD, JCEM, Lancet and BMJ since 2010 - Editorial board member to “World Journal of Diabetes” – since 2010 when the Journal was first started - Special issue editor for “Open Respiratory Medicine Journal” – an open access journal indexed on PubMed and PubMed Central Library - in 2014 for one year: Fully edited the special issue on “Inhaled corticosteroids: endocrine and metabolic complications” in 2015. - Section Editor in Endocrinology & Metabolism to “Current Drug Safety” – an international journal indexed on PubMed since March 2019. Edited a full journal issue alone named “Efficacy and Cardiovascular Safety of Antidiabetic Medications” in 2021. - Associate Editor (Diabetes in Pregnancy) to “Frontiers in Clinical Diabetes and Healthcare” – A Frontier group Journal since May 2020 - Chief Editor to the Elsevier Textbook “Endocrine Hypertension: From Basic Science to Clinical Practice”, a textbook with 21 chapters authored by top scientists & Endocrine Society guideline makers from 8 countries since July 2021. Textbook is available online now Elsevier, Science Direct and Amazon since November 2022. Associate Editor to World Journal of Diabetes since March 2022 and Guest Editor to Endocrinology & Metabolism Clinics of North America since September 2022.