The Christian Medical College Vellore, India was founded in the year 1900. Since 2002 CMC has been repeatedly nominated amongst the top two medical colleges in the country. It is a multicampus institution that has 7 campuses and is located across 3 adjacent districts. It has 3800 beds and 13,000 outpatients per day (2.5 million outpatients per year). The National Accreditation body has graded it as a five star academic institution, the second medical college in the country to be so graded. One of the unique features of this set up is the holistic care it provides to a large urban and rural community. In view of this unique feature of providing high-level specialised care at the hospital and holistic care for a defined community of over 250,000 people in rural area. The WHO has recognised CMC Vellore as a Collaborative Centre in Community Based Health Professional Training, Rehabilitative medicine and Nursing Education.

It is a pioneer institution in India for several specialities including Neurosurgery (the second in Asia), Cardiothoracic Surgery, Haematology, Infectious disease and the first institution in India to initiate open heart surgery, renal transplantation, bone marrow transplantation, a diabetes educator programme and the first hospital based Next generation sequencing system in India.

The institution is a recipient of several grants in research from several agencies including the NIH, European Union, Wellcome Trust Department of Biotechnology, Indian Council of Medical Research and has received more than 600 external grants in the last 3 years. It has state of art departments for physical medicine and rehabilitation, community health, biostatistics and houses the 20 million dollar national centre for stem cell research and therapy. It has a well characterized GPRS system that has plotted the topography of disease in the community to the soil and water resources for the district.

Discoveries including neurocysticercosis for epilepsy, the first CNS storage disorder enzyme characterization in Arylsulphatase A and B deficiencies, the Vellore-Mumbai bionic hand, the aetiology of several viral diseases including Jap B encephalitis, the relationship of Wuchereria Bancroftii to filariasis, the inventions of the posterior fossa CNS shunt, Microcellular rubber and tendon transfer surgeries all originated at Christian Medical College Vellore.

It has a strong network with rural areas and charitable institutions across the country, which provides with the ability to construct and translate programmes which have maximum impact and relevance to the poor and the underprivileged.

The Department of Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism is the oldest in South India with an integrated endocrinology department in Southern India and was conceived in the year 1995, and has an active PhD Programme since the year 1996, and a Clinical Endocrinology and diabetes programme since the year 2001.
The department has published extensively in the area of Diabetes Epidemiology, Obesity, Diabetes Foot and dynamic studies including hyperinsulinemic euglycemic clamp studies, Energy Expenditure and NMR Spectroscopy, over the last 20 years. It is also a leader in the management of Osteoporosis, pituitary and adrenal disease, through its integrated systems.

It is also the progenitor for three books, one in its 9th Edition (Practical Guide to Diabetes), one in its 2nd Edition (Atlas in Endocrinology and Diabetes) Foot- A comprehensive Guide for Clinicians; and a Manual in Diabetes foot care.

The department initiated a World Diabetes Foundation project in 2003 to train 130 hospitals in rural India and subsequently from Project HOPE, which has resulted in a sustainable training programme for doctors and educators and diabetes, inclusive of a distance education programme. This has been extended and has covered health care personnel from developing areas across Asia and Africa and has several modules along with the distance education team in training individuals in diabetes skills. It is a major progenitor for the diabetes nurse educator system in India. A national diabetes foot and foot care training programme, to support the development of integrated diabetes foot clinics and orthotic centres was initiated in 2023.

The unit which handles large volumes of clinical work: about 100,000 patients per year, several subspecialty clinics: integrated diabetes, young onset diabetes, diabetes foot integration and Obesity. The supportive units of community health, Prosthetics and orthotics, Clinical Biochemistry are strong.

It has a state-of-the-art endocrine next generation sequencing genetic laboratory, which was the first one in a hospital in India when set up in 2012, which has defined the patterns of variants in Beta cell disease, insulin resistance and obesity typical in South Asia and receives samples from overseas, including Australia. The department has more than 80 multinational and in-house designed clinical trials in Diabetes Mellitus. The department has had research networks with several overseas universities which included Oxford, Copenhagen, Albert Einstein (New York), Monash, Melbourne and Karolinska Universities, in the past and some are ongoing.

The department was awarded the: British Medical Journal South Asia Diabetology Team of the Year for 2015. His leadership was also instrumental in his team at the department of Endocrinology at CMC, Vellore being awarded in 2017, the Excellence in Patient care awards for the Royal College of Physicians- for outstanding work in advancing medical education and training, and the World India Diabetes Foundation Award for the year-2018. For more details on the department and its faculty, please access: cmcvelloreendo.org.

The Department of Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism is the oldest in South India with an integrated endocrinology department in Southern India and was conceived in the year 1995, and has an active PhD Programme since the year 1996, and a Clinical Endocrinology and diabetes programme since the year 2001, and belongs to the Christian Medical College, Vellore which is a 125 year old Medical College of International repute and is amongst the top 3 medical colleges in India for the last 25 years, it has excellent support for education and research, with an infrastructure for a 3,000 bedded multispecialty hospital, a high quality stem cell centre, rehabilitation centre and a hinterland which covers a population across India and other South Asian countries.

The department has published extensively in the area of Diabetes Epidemiology, Obesity, Diabetes Foot and dynamic studies including hyperinsulinemic euglycemic clamp studies, Energy Expenditure and NMR Spectroscopy, over the last 20 years.

It is also the progenitor for three books, one in its 8th Edition (Practical Guide to Diabetes), one in its 2nd Edition (Atlas in Endocrinology and Diabetes) Foot- A comprehensive Guide for Clinicians; and a Manual in Diabetes foot care.

The department initiated a World Diabetes Foundation project in 2003 to train 130 hospitals in rural India and subsequently from Project HOPE, which has resulted in a sustainable training programme for doctors and educators and diabetes, inclusive of a distance education programme. This has been extended and has covered health care personnel from developing areas across Asia and Africa and has several modules along with the distance education team in training individuals in diabetes skills. It is a major progenitor for the diabetes nurse educator system in India. A national diabetes foot and foot care training programme, to support the development of integrated diabetes foot clinics and orthotic centres was initiated in 2023.

The unit which handles large volumes of clinical work: about 100,000 patients per year, several subspecialty clinics: integrated diabetes, young onset diabetes, diabetes foot integration and Obesity. The supportive units of community health, Prosthetics and orthotics, Clinical Biochemistry are strong.

It has a state-of-the-art endocrine next generation sequencing genetic laboratory, which was the first one in a hospital in India when set up in 2012, which has defined the patterns of variants in Beta cell disease, insulin resistance and obesity typical in South Asia and receives samples from overseas, including Australia. The department has more than 80 multinational and in-house designed clinical trials in Diabetes Mellitus. The department has had research networks with several overseas universities which included Oxford, Copenhagen, Albert Einstein (New York), Monash, Melbourne and Karolinska Universities, in the past and some are ongoing.

The department was awarded the: British Medical Journal South Asia Diabetology Team of the Year for 2015. His leadership was also instrumental in his team at the department of Endocrinology at CMC, Vellore being awarded in 2017, the Excellence in Patient care awards for the Royal College of Physicians- for outstanding work in advancing medical education and training, and the World India Diabetes Foundation Award for the year-2018.