2018 Harold Rifkin Award for Distinguished International Service in the Cause of Diabetes
Viswanathan Mohan, MD, PhD
Viswanathan Mohan, MD, PhD, is the recipient of the 2018 Harold Rifkin Award for Distinguished International Service in the Cause of Diabetes. Supported by a grant from the Rifkin family, this award honors individuals who have demonstrated outstanding research, evaluation and care in diabetes performed from an international perspective with an international impact.
Dr. Mohan is Chairman and Chief of Diabetology at Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Specialties Centre at Chennai in South India, a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Noncommunicable Diseases Prevention and Control. He also serves as Director of the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation.
Internationally renowned, Dr. Mohan has worked tirelessly to address the challenges of diabetes in India and developing countries. He is actively involved in Indian Government health policy and advocacy programs related to diabetes and has served as President of the Research Society for the Study of Diabetes in India. Dr. Mohan’s comprehensive diabetes center boasts 40 branches with computerized clinical data on more than 400,000 patients.
With several productive international research collaborations, Dr. Mohan has contributed to more than 700 original publications. His remarkable reach in training health care providers includes efforts supported by the World Diabetes Foundation (Denmark) and Public Health Foundation of India, through which he has trained more than 20,000 providers in India, Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, Uganda, Cambodia, Vietnam, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Nepal. He also provides lifelong free treatment to thousands of poor patients. Please join us in celebrating Dr. Viswanathan Mohan for outstanding international service in the cause of diabetes.
Award Ceremony Video