!!Kamlesh Khunti - Biography
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Professor Kamlesh Khunti CBE MD PhD FRCP FRCGP FMedSci LLD\\
Diabetes Research Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK\\
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Kamlesh Khunti grew up in a deprived area of Leicester City and studied Medicine at University of Dundee where he qualified in 1984. After house jobs in Dundee, he married Pratima, also a Dundee graduate. They both did their General Practice Vocational Training in Lancaster and the Lake District. They moved back to Leicester to be with their families in 1989 where he became a GP partner in a group practice in one of the most deprived parts of England. Within three years, he helped the practice become a teaching and a GP training practice. He was one of the first GPs in Leicestershire to be awarded the RCGP Fellowship by Assessment following which he helped his practice gain the RCGP Quality Practice Award. He did his MD and PhD while a full-time GP partner at the practice. He stepped down as a partner after 30 years but has continued to work as a Salaried GP in the same practice for the past 4 years. \\
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Kamlesh Khunti is Professor of Primary Care Diabetes and Vascular Medicine at the University of Leicester, UK. He is Co-Director of Leicester Diabetes Centre which he established with Professor Melanie Davies with over 250 staff and 30 PhD students. He is also Director of the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) in Applied Research Collaborations (ARC) East Midlands, Director of Centre for Ethnic Health Research and Director of The Real-World Evidence Unit. He leads a programme of work on cardiometabolic diseases and multiple long-term conditions (MLTC). He was recently been appointed as Director of the first NIHR Global Health Research Centre for Multiple Long-Term Conditions and Co-lead for the Cross NIHR Collaboration for Multiple Long-Term Conditions. He is the national NIHR ARC Lead for MLTCs and the leads the national training programme for MLTCs. He has led a programme of work during the Covid-19 pandemic and was a member of UK Governments Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) and Chair of the SAGE Ethnicity Sub-panel. He has been cited as the Top Type 2 diabetes researchers globally by Expertscape for the last 6 years. He has published over 1400 peer-reviewed articles and has a Google Scholar H-Index of 151. He is Chair of the American Diabetes Association Therapeutic Inertia Initiative and is currently a Member of the KDIGO Diabetes and CKD Guidelines and a Member of the American Diabetes Association Standards of Care Guidelines for Diabetes. He Chairs the National Covid Research Group, the National Diabetes Audit Research Group, The HDRUK Ethnicity Coding Working Group and the Office of National Statistics Ethnicity Working Group. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and an Emeritus NIHR Senior Investigator. He has won numerous awards nationally and internationally including the Lilly Global Leonard Award for Diabetes, the RCGP John Fry Award, Diabetes UK Arnold Bloom Award, ‘Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Award for Excellence in Medical Research, India’, the International Lilly Leonard Award and the James McKenzie Prize by the Royal College of General Practitioners. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Law by University of Dundee in 2023 and the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2022 New Year’s Honour’s List for services to health.  \\
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