Date of Birth: 11th September, 1981

POSITION TITLE: Additional Professor, Department of Endocrinology & Metabolism, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (Employed since June 5, 2015)

Previous Employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India April 1, 2013- June 4, 2015.

EDUCATION/TRAINING:

PERSONAL STATEMENT:

Given the high burden of Diabetes in India, I developed interest and took Diabetes as my research field, with special interest in Diabetes and pregnancy. Sub-areas of research in which I am interested are spousal association of diabetes, family lifestyle intervention trials and establishment of family cohort in women with hyperglycaemia in pregnancy, to understand the natural history and family influences on cardiovascular risk factors in long term. To pursue this interest, and to improve care for these women, I established gestational diabetes mellitus clinic in 2017.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCIENCE:

My research career after my training, spans for 10 years. In last 7 years after joining AIIMS, I consolidated my expertise to undertake high quality research of international standard and has been principal investigator of 6 government funded studies.
I have published 175 PubMed indexed articles in last 10 years :
[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=yashdeep+gupta].