Dr. Nitin completed his DM & Post Doctoral Fellowship in Endocrinology at CMC, Vellore. He then completed his PhD research on clinical and genetic indicators of obesity from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has been cited as among the top 2% of most influential researchers across the world by Stanford University, USA, in October 2023, 2024, and 2025.
He has also been conferred with several awards, including the prestigious AR Seth gold medal by the Endocrine Society of India(2020), the Young Investigator Award by the Sri Lankan Endocrine Society(2019), Melbourne Research Scholarship (2016-20), The Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR University Gold Medal in Endocrinology(2015), AV Gandhi award for Excellence in Endocrine research (2014), The IJEM Award for Excellence in Endocrine writing(2014) and recently, he was also awarded the President’s award of appreciation by the Endocrine Society of India in Dec 2022 and the Best Mentor award of the year 2023-2024 by the Director, Christian Medical College, Vellore. He is the Editor of the current(June 2024) and the previous two editions of the book “A Practical Guide to Diabetes Mellitus”. He is also the section editor of the Obesity section of Endotext – The PubMed-indexed endocrine textbook.
He has more than 400 PubMed-indexed peer-reviewed publications in national & international journals. He is an elected Executive committee member of The Endocrine Society of India (2022-28), All India Association for Advancing Research in Obesity (2022-25), The Endocrine Society of Tamil Nadu (2024-2026), and Honorary joint secretary of The Indian Society of Bone and Mineral Research(2024-2026).
22 MARCH
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11:00
12:30
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Perspectives on Obesity in Asia-Oceania
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