K.M.Venkat Narayan, MD, MSc, MBA

Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University in Atlanta , Georgia , USA

Dr Narayan is Hubert Professor of Global Health & Epidemiology at Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University in Atlanta , USA . Dr. Narayan is a product of three continents and has a richly diverse background. He is a physician-scientist trained in internal medicine, geriatric medicine, and preventive medicine, and specializes in the epidemiology and prevention of diabetes, obesity, and vascular diseases.

Until recently, he led the Diabetes Epidemiology and Statistics Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Dr. Narayan was a Visiting Scientist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for four years before joining CDC in 1996. He is an investigator in several large, multi-center, national studies of diabetes (e.g., The TRIAD Study of diabetes quality of care, Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), The ACCORD Trial of CVD Prevention, and The SEARCH study of diabetes in children).

He has authored/coauthored over 170 peer-reviewed publications, including invited textbook chapters and several editorials. His editorial activities have included appointments as associate editor of Primary Care Diabetes and Clinical Diabetes ; Associate Editor Canadian Diabetes Journal and Diabetes & Technology ; and guest editorship of Annals of Internal Medicine and Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.

Dr. Narayan serves as Research Director for the India, China, America (ICA) Institute. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland , and the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians ( UK ).

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