CME INDIA Presentation by ⚜ Dr. M. Gowri Sankar, MD (General Medicine), Associate Professor, Coimbatore Government Medical College Hospital, Coimbatore.

Today’s Unique Feature:

Prof. Dr. V. Mohan

🇮🇳 The Pride of India 🇮🇳

(Born – April 10, 1954)

💠Indian Physician, Diabetologist & Research Scientist.

💠Chairman of Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Specialities Centre & Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, Chennai.

His contributions…

🔸Dr. Mohan was born in 1954, in an illustrious doctor family. His paternal grandmother was one of the first doctors in a small town called Irinjalakuda in Kerala.

🔸His father Prof. Dr. M. Viswanathan, is fondly referred to as the “Father of Diabetology in India” as he was the first to start a Diabetic Clinic in Post Independent India at the Government Stanley Medical College, Chennai in 1948. He was also the first to start a private hospital exclusively for diabetes healthcare in 1954.

🔸During his school days, Mohan was fascinated with English literature and poetry and wanted to pursue writing as a career.

🔸His father Prof. Viswanathan however had other ideas. He inspired Mohan to take up medicine by telling him that even as a researcher he could be a writer and told him about the epoch-making discovery of insulin by the Canadian Surgeon, Frederick Banting and the medical student, Charles Best.

🔸Following his father’s advice, Mohan decided to study medicine and joined the Madras Medical College (MMC) and was part of the now famous 1971. Importantly, during his MBBS career, apart from winning several medals and prizes, he was also the Captain of the MMC Athletics Team.

🔸He also participated in debates, fine arts and even wrote a book of poems. He worked as a research assistant with his father and published 20 research papers, which is a record of sorts.

🔸It was also at MMC, that he met his classmate, Dr. Rema whom he married in 1979.

🔸Dr. Mohan then did his MD (Internal Medicine) at MMC and stood first in Madras University – winning the Dr. R. V. Rajam Gold Medal while Dr. Rema Mohan completed her DO in Ophthalmology in the same college.

🔸During the years 1985 and 1986 Dr. Mohan and Dr. Rema worked abroad for one year at the Hammersmith Hospital & Royal Post-Graduate Medical School, London and another year at the University of Ulm in Germany.

🔸Later, Dr. Mohan successfully completed his PhD and Doctor of Science (D.Sc) by thesis – the highest research degree in India. He is one of the few medical doctors in India to complete both PhD and DSc by thesis.

🔸In 1991, Dr.V. Mohan and Dr. Rema Mohan established their own centre Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Specialities Centre at Gopalapuram in South Chennai and Dr. Mohan became its Chairman and Chief of Diabetology.

🔸In 1996, Dr. Mohan and Dr. Rema established the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, which grew to become Asia’s largest standalone diabetes research centre. Soon followed the education wing – Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Education Academy.

🔸Today, Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Specialities Centre has a chain of 50 Diabetes centres across 8 states and 32 cities of India with over 7,00,000 registered people with diabetes in their electronic records, which is one of the largest in the world.

🔸Dr. Mohan’s research interests include:

🔅Epidemiology of Diabetes and its Complications.

🔅Genomics of Diabetes including Monogenic Diabetes.

🔅Fibro-calculous Pancreatic Diabetes.

🔅Precision Diabetes.

🔅Nutrition and Diabetes.

🔸Dr. Mohan has published a record number of 1890 papers in peer-reviewed journals. This includes 1250 original articles, 400 review articles and invited editorials and 200 chapters to Text-books on Diabetes. All these are the highest by any medical doctor in India.

🔸His research has attracted over 254,000 citations and has a ‘h index of 175 which is again highest by a medical doctor in India. Dr. Mohan was ranked among Top 2% of Scientists in the World and the highest ranked scientist in Tamil Nadu, by the Stanford University Global Ranking. His is also among top 0.01% of researchers in type 2 Diabetes according to Expertscape (PubMed).

🔸Dr. Mohan has been conferred with 6 Doctorates and 18 Fellowships from reputed institutions and societies including:

🔅Fellow of Royal College of Physicians of the UK (FRCP – London, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Ireland).

🔅Fellow of American College of Physicians (FACP).

🔅Member of American College of Physicians (MACP).

🔅Fellow of American College of Endocrinology (FACE).

🔅Fellow of Royal Society (FRS Edinburgh).

🔸Dr. Mohan is a visionary, who trained a large number of physicians and diabetologists in addition to nurses, and educators by starting several training courses for diabetes, which include:

🔅Fellowship in Diabetology for Under-Graduates in Medicine.

🔅Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Diabetology for Post-Graduates in Internal Medicine.

🔅Certificate Course in Evidence-Based Management of Diabetes and several others.

🔸For his meritorious service in the field of diabetes, Prof. Mohan had received over 250 awards including the prestigious:

🔅 Dr. B.C. Roy National Award by the Medical Council of India in 2005.

🔅 Padma Shri Award by the Government of India in 2012.

🔅 Dr. Jivraj Mehta Award by Association Physicians of India in 2014.

🔅 Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Centenary Award, the highest award for Biomedical research by the ICMR in 2016.

🔅 He was awarded the Dr. Harold Rifkin Award for Distinguished International Service in the Cause of Diabetes, by the American Diabetes Association in 2018. In 2024 he was again awarded the Kelly West Lecture Award by the American Diabetes Association. Dr. Mohan is the first doctor from India to receive both these awards.

🔅 In September 2025, the European Association for Study of Diabetes (EASD) conferred on Dr Mohan the First ever EASD Global Diabetes Impact Prize, and Dr Mohan became the first person in the world to receive this prestigious Award

🔸Dr. Mohan contribute extensively to charity by providing Lifelong Free Service to over 9000 patients and runs 3 free Diabetic clinics in Chennai. He also serves rural India through a fully equipped Mobile Diabetes van which offers free health check-ups to villagers. He has adopted 25 villages in Kanchipuram/Chengalpattu Districts of Tamil Nadu for treatment of deserving people with diabetes.

🔸Dr. Mohan has authored 40 books, including scientific, social, spiritual and motivational books.

🔸Dr. Mohan’s autobiography “Making Excellence a Habit: The Secret to Building a World-Class Healthcare System in India” published by Penguin India, is a best seller on Amazon India and is a ‘must read’ book for everybody particularly youngsters.

🔸His latest book “Banting, Bose, and Beyond” was published by Notion Press and is also a best seller.

🔸His spiritual book “Sri Sathya Sai Baba Lives On” is one of the most popular books on Bhagwan Sathya Sai Baba and has now been translated into 13 languages. His second book on Baba titled “Eternal Divine Grace:” is also very popular among Sai devotees.

🔸In summary, Dr Mohan is a Passionate Doctor, Researcher, Author, Orator, Academician, Administrator, Teacher & Philanthropist.

A Proud Son of Mother India 🇮🇳

Celebrating his birthday today 💐

Prof. Dr. V. Mohan🙏🏼

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