Maurice Bloch Seminar: Dr Dorairaj Prabhakaran

We are pleased to invite you to:

The Institute of Health and Wellbeing Maurice Bloch Annual Lecture Series

Title: What are the innovations to address the epidemic of cardiovascular diseases?

Presenter: Dr Dorairaj Prabhakaran MD, DM, MSc, FRCP, FNASc

Vice President (Research & Policy), Public Health Foundation of India

Executive Director of Centre for Chronic Disease Control , New Delhi, India

Date: Thursday 30 June 2022

Time: 12.30 - 1.30pm a light lunch will be provided 30mins prior to the event.

Chair: Prof Vittal Katikireddi

Venue: Kelvin Hall LT, this is a hybrid meeting https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/95962432213?pwd=YmNSV1d6RGYzSDFuNjI1eFU3d1hWdz09 Meeting ID: 959 6243 2213 Passcode: 274755

Professor D. Prabhakaran is a cardiologist and epidemiologist by training. He is an internationally renowned researcher and is currently the Vice President- Research & Policy, Public Health Foundation of India, Executive Director of Centre for Chronic Disease Control, New Delhi, India and Professor (Epidemiology) London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. In addition he holds Visiting Scientist position at Harvard School of Public Health, position of International Fellow at McMaster University, Canada and Madhu and Hari Varshney Visiting Professorship at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is also the Head of the WHO collaborating Centre for Surveillance, Capacity building and Translational Research in Cardio‐ Metabolic Diseases in South East Asia region. He was elected as Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London) in 2011 and Fellow of the National academy of Sciences , India in 2011. He is currently the chair of the Science committee of the World Heart Federation .

His work spans from mechanistic research to understand the causes for increased propensity of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) among Indians, to developing solutions for CVD through translational research and human resource development. He has received funding from NHLBI, Wellcome Trust, European Commission and several other international and national funding bodies. He has mentored over 50 post-doctoral and doctoral students so far. He has authored several chapters and over 550 scholarly papers with an H index of 98. 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, the highest science academy of India. He has won several awards and accolades, including the Quality Champion by the Quality Council of India.

His exceptional contributions spanning Science, Medicine and Public Health has catapulted the field of Preventive Cardiology in India and the Low and Middle-income countries.