Nitin Kapoor MBBS, MD, DM, PhD
Professor of Endocrinology, Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India; The Noncommunicable Disease Unit, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaDr. 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 conferred with 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 - 2020), 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 several other awards.
He has more than 240 PubMed indexed peer reviewed publications in national and international journals and his keen area of interest is in the field of Obesity & Metabolic syndrome. He has spearheaded the write up and is editor of the current and the previous edition of the book “A practical Guide to Diabetes Mellitus” released in April 2018. He is also the section editor of the Obesity section of Endotext – The PubMed indexed endocrine textbook since 2022.
Dr. Nitin is also an elected member of the Executive committee of The Endocrine Society of India (2022-25) and The Indian Society of Bone and Mineral Research (2021-24)