Qualifications, certifications and memberships

• Founder and Medical Director, Caspian Healthcare, Hyderabad: a single-specialty diabetes, obesity and lifestyle-disease centre handling more than 20,000 consultations a year
• Site Principal Investigator, PRIMARY-India (Sanofi, protocol OBS16627); investigator on TRANSFORM-INDIA and OSCAR
• Founder and Course Director, CASPIAN Certificate in Obesity Medicine (twelve modules, founding batch from August 2026); Facilitator, National Diabetes Educator Program
• Chairperson, D-GENius session, World Congress of Diabetes, DiabetesIndia 2026, and member of its Local Organising Committee
• National Faculty, 13th JPEF Annual Global Diabetes Convention; Invited Faculty, 14th JPEF; invited speaker, DTech 2026, Mumbai; confirmed keynote, BDICE 2027
• More than 200 invited talks, CMEs and workshops, and 25 or more advisory boards and expert panels
• Diabetes India Award 2026; Excellence in Medical Education and Diabetes Care Award, Welcare India, 2026
• Author of the "It's Not..." series of seven patient guides; founder of the annual Caspian Diabesity Expo; 1,939 followers on his WhatsApp channel (September 2026)

• MD, PharmacologyGandhi Medical College, Secunderabad (2019 to 2022)
• MBBSGandhi Medical College, Secunderabad (2011 to 2016)
• RegistrationTelangana State Medical Council, Reg. No. TSMC/FMR/04937

• SCOPE Certification in Obesity ManagementWorld Obesity Federation. Strategic Centre for Obesity Professional Education.
• Fellowship in Diabetes (FID)IMA College of General Practitioners
• Certificate Course in Evidence-Based Diabetes Management (CCEBDM)Public Health Foundation of India
• Enhanced Post Graduate Certificate in Diabetes (EPGCD)HIMS, Lucknow
• Fellowship in Intensive Care Medicine (FICM)Medvarsity
• Fellowship, Academy of General Education (FAGE)Manipal

TOTALL Diabetes Hormone Institute, Indore

• PGCAT, thyroid (2024)
• PGCDM I and II, diabetes (2024 to 2025)
• PGEDM, endocrinology (2025)
• ODEP obesity modules, including Advanced (2025 to 2026)

• Founder and Course Director, CASPIAN Certificate in Obesity Medicine, a twelve-module certificate course for practising doctors under the Caspian Healthcare Foundation (founding batch from August 2026)
• Executive Committee Member, Indian Society of Hypertension, Telangana Chapter (2025 to 2028)
• Facilitator, National Diabetes Educator Program (NDEP). Caspian Healthcare is an NDEP centre and the first batch is running (2026)

International

• The Obesity Society (TOS), USA
• International Diabetes Federation (IDF)
• American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE)

National and state

• Research Society for the Study of Diabetes in India (RSSDI)
• Indian Medical Association (IMA)
• Association of Family Physicians of India (AFPI)
• Indian Pharmacological Society
• Nutrition Society of India (NSI)
• Indian Podiatry Association
• Diabetic Foot Society of India (DFSI)
• Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM)
• Indian Red Cross Society
• Infection Control Academy of India (IFCAI)
• Healthcare Reforms Doctors Association (HRDA)

• 2026Excellence in Medical Education and Diabetes Care Award. National Excellence Awards 2026, Independence Day Special Edition, Welcare India Social Welfare Foundation. Presented on 23 August 2026 at the IMA Building, Koti, Hyderabad
• 2026Diabetes India Award. DiabetesIndia
• 2026SCOPE Certification in Obesity Management. World Obesity Federation
• 2020 to 2022COVID Warrior felicitation. Healthcare Reforms Doctors Association and Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, for frontline service through the pandemic
• 2020Community Immunity Ambassador. MBRU Break the Chain of COVID-19 programme; COVID-19 Awareness and Management certificate endorsed by NATHEALTH and FICCI