Full Name
Om P. Ganda, MD
Speaker Bio
Dr. Om Ganda graduated from the SMS Medical College, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, and earned his MD (Medicine) at the AIIMS, New Delhi in 1970.
Dr. Ganda began his tenure at the Joslin Diabetes Center and the Harvard Medical School as a Research Fellow in 1973.
He is the Director of Lipid Center, Chair of the Joslin Clinical Guidelines Committee, senior faculty of Global Education and Care (GEC), and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Dr. Ganda has been a co- investigator in a number of NIH-funded clinical trials, including the landmark DCCT/EDIC, and Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), and several multi-national clinical trials related to Lipids and Cardiovascular disease, including the recently completed the REDUCE-IT, and the PROMINENT trials.
Earlier, he was a co-investigator in other NIH- sponsored studies on the pathogenesis of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes in monozygotic twins and offspring of both parents with type 2 diabetes.
Board Certifications: American Board of Internal Medicine, American Board of Endocrinology, and American Board of Clinical Nutrition.
Dr. Ganda is an active member of ADA, the Endocrine Society (TES), AACE, and NLA. He served as a member of the Board of Directors of AACE and a member of the AACE clinical practice, and lipid guidelines task force.
As an educator, Dr. Ganda has been a frequently invited speaker at various conferences in North America, Latin America, South and East Asia, Middle- East, and Europe.
Dr. Ganda has > 200 peer-reviewed publications, most in high impact journals, including > 150 original publications and 34 book chapters.
Awards and Recognitions:
Capps Scholar, Harvard Medical School.
RSSDI Orations: GP Moses Oration (2000);
M Viswanathan Oration (2003)
Master Clinician, the Endocrine Society, 2013
Marble Historical Commission Award, Joslin Diabetes Center, 2013
Compassionate Caregiver recognition by the Schwartz Center; 2014
Commissioner on the Asian American Commission, appointed by the Governor of Massachusetts, 2012--2015
Distinguished Clinician Award, AACE-NE, 2016
Health Pioneer Award, by the New England South Asian community, 2019.
Master of American College of Endocrinology (MACE), 2023
Dr. Ganda began his tenure at the Joslin Diabetes Center and the Harvard Medical School as a Research Fellow in 1973.
He is the Director of Lipid Center, Chair of the Joslin Clinical Guidelines Committee, senior faculty of Global Education and Care (GEC), and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Dr. Ganda has been a co- investigator in a number of NIH-funded clinical trials, including the landmark DCCT/EDIC, and Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), and several multi-national clinical trials related to Lipids and Cardiovascular disease, including the recently completed the REDUCE-IT, and the PROMINENT trials.
Earlier, he was a co-investigator in other NIH- sponsored studies on the pathogenesis of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes in monozygotic twins and offspring of both parents with type 2 diabetes.
Board Certifications: American Board of Internal Medicine, American Board of Endocrinology, and American Board of Clinical Nutrition.
Dr. Ganda is an active member of ADA, the Endocrine Society (TES), AACE, and NLA. He served as a member of the Board of Directors of AACE and a member of the AACE clinical practice, and lipid guidelines task force.
As an educator, Dr. Ganda has been a frequently invited speaker at various conferences in North America, Latin America, South and East Asia, Middle- East, and Europe.
Dr. Ganda has > 200 peer-reviewed publications, most in high impact journals, including > 150 original publications and 34 book chapters.
Awards and Recognitions:
Capps Scholar, Harvard Medical School.
RSSDI Orations: GP Moses Oration (2000);
M Viswanathan Oration (2003)
Master Clinician, the Endocrine Society, 2013
Marble Historical Commission Award, Joslin Diabetes Center, 2013
Compassionate Caregiver recognition by the Schwartz Center; 2014
Commissioner on the Asian American Commission, appointed by the Governor of Massachusetts, 2012--2015
Distinguished Clinician Award, AACE-NE, 2016
Health Pioneer Award, by the New England South Asian community, 2019.
Master of American College of Endocrinology (MACE), 2023
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