Dr. A. G. Unnikrishnan

Dr AG Unnikrishnan is the CEO and Chief of Endocrinology at the Chellaram Diabetes Institute, a diabetes institute in Pune. He heads clinical care, research, education and also oversees a philanthropic rural diabetes care program.

Dr Unnikrishnan has co-authored the largest multicenter study of subjects with pancreatitis and pancreatic diabetes worldwide, in addition to his many other , more than 190 Pubmed-indexed publications. He is also the former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Thyroid Research and Practice, and former Executive Editor of Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism

He received the Jacob Memorial Prize for the best patient care awarded by the Christian Medical College, Vellore, in 1998. He has received the Subash Mukherjee Oration award of the Endocrine Society of India (2011), and the Srivastava Award (2011) of the RSSDI (India’s largest diabetes society) , for his contributions to diabetes. He received the Fellowship Award of the RSSDI in 2017, Dr Sam GP Moses oration award by the Diabetes Association of India in 2018 and the Diabetes Excellence Award at Digital Diabetes Summit at Hyderabad, 2019. Recently, in 2020, he delivered the Madhukumbh Oration at the Annual  Diabetes Association Meeting at Nashik, Maharashtra.