M.D., DM (Cardiology), MSc, FRCP, FNASc, FNA, DSc(Honoris Causa)
Executive Director, Centre for Chronic Disease Control (CCDC)
Distinguished Professor – Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)
Professor, Department of Epidemiology
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Adjunct Professor, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, U.S.A
Professor Dorairaj Prabhakaran, educated at Bangalore Medical College (MBBS), the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (MD: Internal Medicine and DM: Cardiology) and McMaster University Canada MSc: Health Research Methodology), is an eminent cardiologist, epidemiologist and academician of global repute. He is currently Executive Director, Centre for Chronic Disease Control, a WHO collaborating centre for the Southeast Asia region and an ICMR Collaborating Centre of Excellence. He is also a Distinguished Professor at the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and holds professorships at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and Emory University, Atlanta, USA. In addition, he is a Visiting Scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health and an International Fellow at the Population Research Institute, McMaster University.
Prof. Prabhakaran has more than 650 publications in scientific journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Circulation, British Medical Journal, Nature, JAMA, etc. and has an H‐Index of 110. He has been listed as the topmost researcher in Medicine in India in terms of publications for the years 2009‐2014 by Scopus and Department of Science & Technology, Government of India and recently listed among the top 2% of World’s researchers by the Stanford University with a very high ranking in Medicine and Cardiology. Recognising his contribution to Indian Science, he was elected as a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy. He has won several awards and accolades, including the Quality Champion by the Quality Council of India. He was conferred the Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) by the University of Glasgow recently.
Following a very active career involving patient care and teaching at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, he established large population‐based research projects which have provided major insights in diverse domains. Briefly, his large body of work demonstrated: the relationship of air pollution to several chronic diseases in India using an innovative high‐resolution exposure model technique involving machine learning and multiple data sources; the complex interplay of genetic and environmental drivers of chronic diseases in the rapidly urbanizing populations in India; and the higher risk of heart diseases among the poor and low‐ education groups underscoring the need to provide not just social safety nets but springboards for the poor to build a healthy India.
In addition, Prof Prabhakaran is leading several projects to develop low cost, context‐specific solutions to enhance the quality of therapeutic and preventive care for chronic diseases in India. To enhance access to chronic disease care, he is spearheading research on low‐cost, mobile‐phone‐based solutions to provide personalized patient management solutions. His work also involves improving quality of care and is evaluating several models of care, including simple audit/feedback loops to physicians and Yoga‐care in cardiac rehabilitation, the trial of a cardiovascular polypill in secondary prevention and programs for building the capacity of primary care physicians in the field of chronic diseases. Prof Prabhakaran’s contribution to capacity building in chronic disease health research and training is exemplary. He is an exceptional mentor of doctoral, post‐doctoral and physician‐scientists nationally and internationally, many of whom have become leaders in heart disease research.
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