Meet the India Governor-elect Designee

Congratulations to the India Chapter Governor-elect Designee (GED), Anuj Maheshwari, MD, FACP. Our new GED will complete a year of training as a Governor-elect and then will start his four-year term as Governor in the Spring of 2021. As Governor, Dr. Maheshwari will serve as the official representative of the College for the India Chapter, providing a link between members at the local level and leadership at the national level. In the meantime, Dr. Maheshwari will be working closely with Dr. Muruganathan (the current governor) and College staff to learn about the College and his duties as Governor. To learn more about the new GED, read his bio below.

Anuj Maheshwari, MD, FACP 

Medical School Education: MBBS, MD

Post-Doctoral Training: General Medicine & Diabetes

Certification: King George's Medical University

Present Position: Professor/Head, General Medicine, Babu Banarasi Das University

ACP Chapter and Leadership Activities:
Invited Speaker, Acute Metabolic Complications in Diabetes, Medicine Update, Era’s Lucknow Medical College 2017; Organiser, Annual Conference 2018 (more than 1000 doctors participated); Invited Speaker, Art & Science of Insulin Therapy: Role of Insulin Coformulations, Annual Conference; Invited Guest Speaker, BSMCON, ACP Bangladesh 2018; Invited Guest Speaker, Annual Conference, ACP Japan 2019; Invited Lecturer, Practicing Wellness to Beat Diabetes, ACPCON, Midterm Conference 2019; Invited Faculty, Annual Conference 2019

ACP National Activities:
Fellowship 2015; Well-being Champion, Internal Medicine Meeting 2018; Volunteer/Invited Teacher, Mini but Mighty: Skills for Well-being, Internal Medicine Meeting 2019; Speaker, Well-being Briefing Session, Internal Medicine Meeting 2019 
 

Other Appointments/Activities:
30 research projects as PI; 275 Guest Lectures; RJ Wegmann Oration, Indian Society of Hypertension; BC Bansal Oration, Indian Academy of Clinical Medicine 2016; VG Nadgouda Lecture, Research Society for the Study of Diabetes in India (RSSDI) 2016; PR Prasad Oration, Jharkhand, RSSDI 2018; RM Shah Oration, Gujarat, RSSDI 2018; Health Icon Award 2017, 2019; Marvelous Personality of the Year 2017; Organiser, multiple conferences; Contributor, 1.5 million+ data, May Measurement Month Project, ISH; Initiated Diabetes & GDM Prevalence Study

Areas of Professional Interest and Expertise:
Diabetes; Hypertension; Practicing Well-being