Dr. A. Muruganathan is a renowned physician working in Tamil Nadu currently. His contributions to the field of medicine and his achievements are numerous and some of these are listed below:

Academic:

• Ex. Emeritus Professor – The Tamilnadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University
• Imm. Past Governor – American College of Physicians India Chapter
• Dean – Indian College of Physicians (ICP): 2016-2017
• President – Hypertension Society of India (HSI): 2015-2016
• Past President – Association of Physicians of India (API): 2013-2014
• Past President – Tamil Nadu IMA & Past Dean IMA CGP

Editor:

• Adult Immunisation-2014
• Progress in Medicine 2017
• Medicine Update 2013 and 2017
• Manual of Hypertension-2015 & 2019

Awards:

• Received BC Roy Award from President of India 2005
• WHL Excellence Award in Population Hypertension Prevention and Control 2021
• Received Best Performing Doctor Award from Tamilnadu Government on Doctors Day 2014
• Received Lifetime Achievement Award by TN DR. M.G.R. Medical University & Saveetha Medical University, K.G. Foundation, Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Foundation & Indian Society of Hypertension

Dr. Krishnan Swaminathan is a Consultant Endocrinologist at Madhuram Diabetes &Thyroid Centre, Coimbatore

•  He has completed his undergraduate medical education at Madras Medical College and completed his higher specialist training in Diabetes & Endocrinology from renowned centres in the United Kingdom including London, Cambridge & Scotland
• He passed his MRCP in 1999 and was awarded FRCP by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 2009
• He has completed his Research MD in diabetes and cardiovascular disease
• He is one of the very few doctors in the country to have a PhD from the prestigious IIT Madras on agrochemicals and diabetes
• He is the founding trustee of Idhayangal Charitable Trust, a registered charity that has funded approximately 4 crores for various charitable causes, especially for poor children with Type 1 diabetes in India

Publications:

• He has 75 publications to his credit in peer-reviewed international journals
• He is the author of the best-selling easy-to-read Tamil book, “Samaniyanum Sarkarai Noyum” and the English book on diabetes “Diabetes Demystified”, which has now sold over combined 20,000 copies.

Educational Qualifications:

MBBS, FRCP, MD

Dr. Kumaravel V. is the Consultant Endocrinologist and Director of Alpha Hospital & Research Centre, Madurai, India

• He is a Course Director in FCE organized by IMA CGP
• He is a member of the American Thyroid Association, Endocrine Society of India (ESI), the Research Society of study of Diabetes in India (RSSDI), Indian Society of Bone and Mineral Research (ISBMR)
• He is Vice President of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) & President of the Endocrine society of Tamilnadu and Puducherry (ESTN)
• He was an assistant professor at Amrita institute of medical sciences & Research Centre in Kochi, Kerala in the Department of Infectious Disease, Diabetes & Endocrine between years 2003-2007
• He completed his M.Sc. in diabetes from Roehampton University, London in 2007
• He was Consultant at ACEER in Chennai, Tamilnadu between the years 2007-2009
• He has done his short-term Observership in Islet Cell transplantation, at the University of Minnesota in year 2009
• He has attended Investigator meeting for a diabetes trial at Barcelona in January 2009 and in Delhi in March 2009 and also attended ICH/GCP training conducted by ICON - DAIICHI 12 SANKYO in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in Aug 2007
• He has organised many national conferences, and workshops and has been a part of 60+ conferences, workshops on the Role of growth hormone therapy, Gliptins: Where to use, where not to use, Interpretation of Thyroid function test, Insulin therapy in T2DM – Beyond basal insulin, etc
• He is Actively involved in designing the curriculum for clinical Endocrinology and involved in Teaching the same to other Doctors from various medical specialities from 2011-till date
• He is part of many ongoing research projects on Cell-free DNA in differentiating benign and malignant thyroid nodules, Urinary Iodine Estimation – Biomarker of iodine status etc.
• He has also contributed to the Revised IAP growth chart.

Publications:

• He has published national/international journals, 30+ publications and also contributed to 6+ book chapters

Education Qualifications:

• MBBS, MD (Gen Medicine), DNB(Endo), MNAMS

Awards:

• He has been awarded the IMA State appreciation award for coordinating academic activities in July 2017, December 2013 & 2014
• He has been awarded as Hon Professor at IMA-CGP at New Delhi in 2014
• He has been awarded by National Honorary Faculty in August 2015