Kamlesh Khunti#
| Membership Number: | 7272 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://le.ac.uk/people/kamlesh-khunti |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-2343-7099 |
| X: | @kamleshkhunti |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - present Director NIHR Multiple Long Term Conditions Global Research Centre
- 2017 - present Co-Director, Leicester Real World Evidence Unit
- 2016 - present Director, Centre for Ethic Health Research
- 2019 - present Director, NIHR Applied Research Collaboration East Midlands (ARC)
- 2015 - present Honorary Professorial Fellow with Department of General Practice. University of Melbourne.
- 2013 - present Director, Leicester Diabetes Centre
- 2007 - present Professor of Primary Care Diabetes and Vascular Medicine
- 1990 - present General Practitioner, Hockley Farm Medical Practice, Leicester.
Fields of Scholarship
- Real World Evidence
- Ethnic minority health
- Prevention of multimorbidity
- Cardiometabolic disease
- Prevention of cardiometabolic diseases
- Randomised controlled trials
- Risk assessment tools
Honours and Awards
- April 2002 Royal College of General Practitioner’s John Fry Award for Research
- April 2006 Mary MacKinnon Award at the Diabetes UK Annual Professional Conference
- May 2010 Primary Care Diabetes Europe Paul Cromme Award Lecture, Istanbul
- May 2010 Fellow of Royal College of Physicians of London
- November 2013 Health Service Journal BME Pioneer
- January 2014 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Award for Excellence in Medical Research, India
- February 2014 Health Services Journal Top 50 BME Pioneers 2013
- July 2014 NIHR Senior Investigator Award
- September 2014 Voted 25th most influential GP out of 50 named by Pulse
- June 2015 Lifetime achievement award for research from the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin
- April 2016 Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
- June 2016 Recognised Top 5 Most influential Researchers by Expertscape
- December 2017 International Diabetes Federation 2017: Outstanding Achievement Service Award. Abu Dhabi, UAE
- December 2017 International Diabetes Federation 2017: Centre of Excellence Award. Abu Dhabi, UAE
- December 2017 International Diabetes Federation 2017: Centre for Education Award. Abu Dhabi, UAE
- November 2018 EDEN Winner of Inaugural DPC Industry Awards – The Diabetes Times (https://diabetestimes.co.uk/winners-announced-at-inaugural-dpc-industry-awards
)
- April 2019 Prof Kamlesh is named as one of the top 30 Insulin experts in the UK. https://www2.le.ac.uk/staff/announcements/academics-named-in-national-top-30
- May 2019 Professor Kamlesh Khunti, Professor of Primary Care Diabetes and Vascular Medicine, is named as ‘Nation’s Lifesavers’ – the top 100 individuals or groups based in universities whose work is saving lives and making a life-changing difference to our health and wellbeing https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e-gSlkVgV9U&feature=youtu.be
- June 2019 Registered Top 1 Diabetes Researcher. Globally 61 Expertscape
- Nov 2019 South Asian Health Foundation. “Lifetime Achievement” award
- Nov 2021 Diabetes Philippines Augusto D. Litonjua Endowed Lecture Award
- Nov 2021 Primary Care Diabetes Society, Lifetime Achievement Award
- Nov 2021 The Citizens’ Awards 2021, Winner in the Category of Covid-related Researcher, University of Leicester
- Nov 2021 QCOVID BMJ won Research Paper of the Year Award
- COVID-19 Research Paper of the Year for their work developing the QCovid risk prediction model. The model helps to identify those at risk of severe outcomes from COVID-19. Its use across the NHS in England resulted in an additional 1.7m people being added to the clinically extremely vulnerable shielding list
- Dec 2021 CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for services to Health in the New Year’s Honours List
- Feb 2022 Innovation Wards - LeicestershireLive Innovation Awards 2022 https://www.business-live.co.uk/partners/university-leicester-drives-innovation-help-25508924
- August 2022 Top 50 Asian Powerlist, GG2 Power List https://www.easterneye.biz/power-list
- Sept 2022 Shortlisted for Times Higher Education (THE) Awards https://the-awards.co.uk/2022/en/page/shortlist
- October 2023 HSJ Top 50 most influential Black, Asian and minority ethnic people in health https://www.hsj.co.uk/the-50-most-influential-black-asian-and-minority-ethnic-people-in-health-full-list/7035410.article
- July 2023 Awarded Honorary Doctorate of Law, University of Dundee
- November 2023 Lilly Leonard Award https://twitter.com/kamleshkhunti/status/1724784023120257241
- January 2024 Mackenzie Lecture "Journey of an Inner-City Researcher: from Africa to Dundee"
- July 2024 Dr.Mohan’s Diabetes Specialities Centre (DMDSC) Gold Medal Oration Award, Dr.Mohan’s International Diabetes Update 2024, India
- November 2024 James Mackenzie Prize, Royal College of General Practitioners Highest Awrd
- 2018 to present Recognised Top Researcher Globally by Publication for Type 2 diabetes bt Expertscape https://expertscape.com/ex/diabetes+mellitus%2C+type+2
