Dr. Shaukat M. Sadikot, is currently the President of DiabetesIndia. Presently working as a Consultant in Endocrinology at the Jaslok Hospital and Research Center, Mumbai, he has been actively involved with the cause of diabetes and associated metabolic disorders for the past 30 years. He received his M.D. degree from the Grant Medical College, Bombay University and then underwent further training in Endocrinology and Metabolic Disorders as a Visiting Colleague at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School and the Hammersmith Hospital, London, U.K.

Dr. Sadikot has worked as a Senior Research Fellow of the Indian Council of Medical Research where he worked on the role of fibers in diabetic diets as well as the role of EFAs in Indian diets. He has had short term training in aspects of islet cell physiology and implants at the Institute of Transplantology and Artificial Organs, Moscow, Russia.

Dr. Sadikot is a Fellow of the All India Institute of Diabetes and the International College of Nutrition. He is a member of DiabetesIndia, Diabetic Association of India, International Diabetes Federation, Endocrine Society of India, Research Society for the Study of Diabetes in India and has been awarded a Hon. Membership of the British Diabetes Association.

He has been the Chief Co-ordinator of three Indian Consensus Guidelines for the Management of Diabetes (1991, 1998 and 2003) with a special focus on helping primary care physicians (who look after more than 99% of India’s diabetes population) in their day to day management of diabetes. Under his Presidentship, DiabetesIndia pioneered the first ever truly national survey for the prevalence of diabetes as well as the Metabolic Syndrome in India. The latter is an ongoing process with evaluation of the novel risk factors and their role and importance in the Indian context.

He has been closely associated with the activities of the IDF for many years and is a member of the IDF task Force on Insulin, Test strips and other diabetes supplies, a member of the IDF Consensus group on the Prevention of Prediabetes, Diabetes and the Metabolic Syndrome, as well as the IDF group on Diabetes and Obstructive Sleep Apnoea.

His main research area is in the area of diabetes and its association with vascular disease and has written four books and has numerous publications to his credit, both original papers as well as solicited articles. .

He is currently heading a team which is evaluating the role of guidelines and mechanisms for the prevention of diabetes and obesity, especially childhood and juvenile obesity, through lifestyle interventions valid in the Indian and developing country scenarios. He is also co-ordinating the Indian Consensus on the Metabolic Syndrome with a special emphasis on the prevention aspects of diabetes and early onset atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.