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• Dr Urman Dhruv is a senior physician and also Director, Department of Internal Medicine and Diabetes at HCG Hospitals, Ahmedabad. The department has all the latest equipment available under one roof for management of diabetes

• He has been practicing Internal Medicine for more than 30 years. His area of interest has been the public awareness programmes and diabetes

• He has been awarded the honour of “Fellow of Diabetes India” for his outstanding academic activities in the field of diabetes

• He has been given “Investigator of the Year 2017” award by Indian Society of Hypertension towards his contribution to prestigious 3M project

• He has been an active member of committees which have created national diabetes guidelines and national hypertension guidelines

• He has written chapters in Text book of medicine

• He was invited in 2008-2009 by San Francisco General Hospital USA to deliver a lecture on Diabetes management in Indian set up

• He has been the author of multiple review articles in various text books and review books. This includes a review article on cardiac autonomic neuropathy in Clinical medicine Update by Association of Physicians of India. His important articles include GLP RA: Role beyond glucose metabolism, DPP IV Inhibitors: Escalating the steps in algorithm of management of type 2 diabetes ( In Publication), 2 D Echo variables in type 2 diabetes, Obesity: Current perspectives, Vitamin D: Under rated or over hyped?

• He has been invited as guest faculty at various national conferences on Diabetes including conferences by Research Society for Study of Diabetes in India ( 10 times) and Diabetes India Congress

• He has been conducting undergraduate teaching course at HCG Hospitals

• He has recently published an Gujarati audio mp3 for Diabetes education and awareness for public and patients