People/Profile

Academic positions:

• Hon. Consultant in Clinical Genetic/ Cardiovascular Genetics, Inherited Cardiac Unit, Bart’s Heart Centre, St. Bart’s Hospital, Bart’s NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
• Consultant in Clinical Genetics & Genomic Medicine, Cardiff Spire Hospital, Cardiff, Wales, UK
• Senior Consultant Adviser, ‘Apollo Genomics Institutes’, Apollo Group of Hospitals, India.
• Honorary Visiting Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
• Visiting Professor, School of Medicine, Texas Tech University, Texas, USA
• External Adviser for Genomic Medicine, South Africa Medical Research Council (SAMRC), South Africa
• Fellow Faculty of Scholars, Human Genome Organization International (HUGO), USA

Citation:

• A highly acclaimed, globally acknowledged genetic and genomic clinician with special interests in clinical genetics, cardiovascular genomics and genomic/ OMIC medicine. He is credited with landmark contributions and achievements in genetic-inherited diseases of children, hereditary familial conditions of heart and blood vessels, applications of novel genomic principles and technology in genomic-precision medicine and public and population health genomics.
• He is honoured with Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa by the alma mater, KGMU Lucknow, Hind Rattan International NRI Award, the GAPIO-Siemens Medical Innovation Award, the Glory of Georgians & Life Time Achievement Award of the King George’s Medical University Alumni UK, and the Life Time Achievement Award conferred by GAPIO (2023).
• He is honoured with inclusion in the HUGO Faculty of Scholars, one of the highest recognition in the field of Genomics and Molecular Biology conferred by the Human Genome Organization International (HUGO). He is widely applauded for his sincere and persistent efforts for medical genetics as the integral part of medical teaching and practice across India and in low and middle income countries (LMICs).
• He serves on the panel for WHO sponsored International partnership for genomic education and training in collaboration with the NHS England Genomic Medicine Service. He founded and leads the Genomic Medicine Foundation UK that is committed to promoting and educating genomic applications in medicine and healthcare in developing countries, notably in South Asia (South Asia Genomic Healthcare Alliance- SAGHA).

Notable services, achievements and contributions:

• Author/Editor of several peer reviewed research papers, articles and books. Main book titles include-

Genetic Disorders of the Indian Subcontinent (Kluwer-Springer); Genomics and Clinical Medicine (Oxford); Principles and Practice of Genomic Medicine (Oxford); Principles and Practice of Clinical Cardiovascular Genetics (Oxford); Cardiovascular Genetics & Genomics- Principles and Clinical Practice (Springer-Nature); Oxford Specialist Handbook Inherited Cardiac Disease (Oxford); Medical & Health Genomics (Elsevier); Genomics and Society (Elsevier); Clinical Molecular Medicine-Principles & Practice (Elsevier); Genomic and Molecular Medicine e-book series (9 volumes), Morgan& Claypool Publishers. Advances in Genetics series (9 volumes), Academic Press by  Elsevier.

• Founding Editor in Chief of new bio-medical journals-

‘Genomic Medicine’ (Kluwer-Springer), continues as ‘Human Genomics’, the official journal of HUGO,  BMC/Springer Nature ; ‘Applied and Translational Genomics’ (Elsevier); ‘Genomic and Molecular Cardiology (GMF-UK); ‘Seminars in Genomic Medicine’ (GMF-UK).

Founded and leads the multi-volume book series ‘Genomic and Precision Medicine in Clinical Practice’. Authored and edited new books in this series-

1. ‘Genomic Medicine Skills and Competencies’
2. ‘Cardiovascular genomic medicine’ and ‘Genomics, Populations and Society’, Co-Editors- Prof. Perry Elliott, University College London, UK & Prof. Arthur Wilde, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
3. ‘Genomics, Populations and Society’, Co-editor- Prof. Ruth Chadwick, University of Lancaster & Cardiff University.
4. New titles in this series include- ‘Clinical Nutrigenomics for Personalized Healthcare’; ‘Cancer Genomic Medicine’; ‘Medical and Health Genomics of South Asia’; ‘Genomic and Molecular Dysmorphology’; ‘Clinical Pharmacogenomics’; ‘Laboratory Genomic and Molecular Medicine’.
5. ‘Genomics and healthcare in low and middle income countries (LMICs)’

Leading ambassador for harnessing the genetic and genomic advances for improved healthcare in developing nations. This book is a unique resource for genetic-genomic status across all Low & Middle Income Countries (LMICs).

• Founded and continues to lead the Genomic Medicine Foundation UK (www.genomicmedicine.org). Main project of the Foundation- the South Asia Genomic Healthcare Alliance (SAGHA) to promote and enhance mutually beneficial collaboration-partnership in the fast-emerging field of genomic medicine and healthcare. The alliance has close academic and professional links all over India & South Asia.
• Established and manage key projects of SAGHA for promotion and empowering genomic healthcare in South Asia- Genomic and Precision Medicine in South Asia; DECIPHER South Asia; South Asia Pharmacogenomics Consortium; Genomethics South Asia Consortium
• Served on the Panel of the VAIBHAV summit, Department of Science Technology, Government of India. October 2020. International scientists’ advisory forum of Indian Origin.
• Funder and established the ‘Young Investigator Gold Medal’ to enhance research & academic contributions of the junior Faculty of KGMU, Lucknow.
• Founder President of the new Global Academy of Medical Sciences (GAMS) for enhancing & empowering academic medicine in ‘low and middle income countries (LMICs)’.
• Consultant Advisor to the Apollo Group Hospitals, India for the Apollo Genomics Initiatives. He was instrumental for establishing and directing the Apollo Genomics Institutes in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Ahmedabad, with further four Institutes under development. The Apollo Genomics Institutes are prime example for delivering the ‘state of the art’ genomic medicine and healthcare across India with the sole aim to offer cutting edge precision genomic diagnostic and therapeutic services in rare and common diseases along with teaching, training, research and novel applications of multi-OMIC sciences and technologies.
• Served as a panelist on the WHO Science Council for promoting genomic applications in healthcare across low and middle income countries (LMICs).
• Current Chair of the Human Genome Organization International (HUGO) Genomic Education Committee steering the global program for enhancing genomic knowledge and skills for multi-disciplinary healthcare with particular reference to the low and middle income nations.
• Member of the International Partnership for Genomics Education and Training led by the NHS England Genomics in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO).

Updated- May 2025