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{{Short description|Indian endocrinologist}}
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| birth_date = 28 November 1963
| birth_place = Delhi, India
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| occupation = [[Endocrinologist]]
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| known for = [[Thyroid]] epidemiology, [[diabetes]]
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]]<br>[[Dr. B. C. Roy Award]]
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'''Nikhil Tandon''' is an Indian [[endocrinologist]], medical academic and the head of the department of endocrinology, metabolism and diabetes at the [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences]].<ref name="Bloomberg">{{cite web | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2010-11-07/india-s-deadly-diabetes-scourge-cuts-down-millions-rising-to-middle-class | title=Bloomberg | publisher=Bloomberg |year=2015 | access-date=5 March 2015}}</ref><ref name="India Medical Times">{{cite web | url=http://www.indiamedicaltimes.com/2015/01/26/dr-ambrish-mithal-dr-ashok-seth-to-be-conferred-with-padma-bhushan-award/ | work=India Medical Times | year=2015 | access-date=5 March 2015 | title=Dr Ambrish Mithal, Dr Ashok Seth to be conferred with Padma Bhushan award | India Medical Times | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170423130539/http://www.indiamedicaltimes.com/2015/01/26/dr-ambrish-mithal-dr-ashok-seth-to-be-conferred-with-padma-bhushan-award/ | archive-date=23 April 2017 | url-status=dead }}</ref> He is a recipient of [[Dr. B. C. Roy Award]], the highest Indian medical award in 2005<ref name="Endocrine Society of India">{{cite web | url=http://www.endocrinesocietyindia.org/?q=node/38 | title=Endocrine Society of India | publisher=Endocrine Society of India |year=2015 | access-date=5 March 2015}}</ref> and was honoured by the [[Government of India]] in 2015 with [[Padma Shri]], the fourth highest Indian civilian award.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web |url=http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=114952 |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Padma Awards |year=2015 |access-date=16 February 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150128022143/http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=114952 |archive-date=28 January 2015 }}</ref>

==Biography==
Nikhil Tandon was born on 28 November 1963 in Delhi.<ref name="Vidwan">{{cite web | url=http://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/searchr.php?id=43102 | title=Vidwan | publisher=Vidwan |year=2015 | access-date=5 March 2015}}</ref> He secured his master's degree (MD) from the [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi]], obtained his doctoral degree (PhD) from the [[University of Cambridge]] and returned to India in 1993 to join [[AIIMS]] as a member of its faculty.<ref name="Endocrine Society of India" /><ref name="Vidwan" /><ref name="Emory University">{{cite web | url=http://www.ph-leader.emory.edu/people/bio-section-faculty/tandon-nikhil.html | title=Emory University | publisher=Emory University |year=2015 | access-date=5 March 2015}}</ref> He has stayed with AIIMS ever since and is a professor and the head of the department of endocrinology, metabolism and diabetes at the institution.<ref name="Endocrine Society of India" /><ref name="Vidwan" /> He has been the national co-ordinator for ''Action in Diabetes and Vascular Diseases'' (ADVANCE),<ref name="Emory University" /> a study conducted by [[The George Institute for Global Health]], Australia for combating the risks of diabetes and prevent it becoming a global epidemic<ref name="George Institute">{{cite web | url=http://www.indiasnews.net/index.php/sid/368371 | title=George Institute | publisher=George Institute | date=7 June 2008 | access-date=5 March 2015 | archive-date=22 April 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160422174224/http://www.indiasnews.net/index.php/sid/368371 | url-status=dead }}</ref> and has been a member of the steering committee of Center for Cardio-metabolic Risk Reduction in South Asia (CARRS) Trial funded by the [[National Heart Lung and Blood Institute]].<ref name="Emory University" /> He also serves as a member of the faculty of [[Emory University]].<ref name="Emory University" />

Tandon is a former vice-president of the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]]<ref name="NASI">{{cite web | url=http://www.nasi.org.in/pastoff.htm | title=NASI | publisher=NASI | year=2015 | access-date=6 March 2015 | archive-date=6 November 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151106200754/http://www.nasi.org.in/pastoff.htm | url-status=dead }}</ref> and a president and the incumbent general secretary of the Indian Society for Bone and Mineral Research.<ref name="Indian Society for Bone and Mineral Research">{{cite web | url=http://www.iofbonehealth.org/iof-national-societies/1219 | title=Indian Society for Bone and Mineral Research | publisher=Indian Society for Bone and Mineral Research | year=2015 | access-date=6 March 2015 | archive-date=4 April 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404092336/http://www.iofbonehealth.org/iof-national-societies/1219 | url-status=dead }}</ref> He has served as an executive committee member of the Endocrine Society of India<ref name="Endocrine Society of India" /> and is its president.<ref name="Endocrine Society of India" /><ref name="Emory University" /> He is an elected fellow of the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]]<ref name="NASI Fellow">{{cite web | url=http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=T | title=NASI Fellow | publisher=NASI | year=2015 | access-date=6 March 2015 | archive-date=26 December 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181226132012/http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=T%20 | url-status=dead }}</ref> and a fellow of the [[National Academy of Medical Sciences]]<ref name="NAMS">{{cite web | url=http://www.nams-india.in/docs_pdfs/fellow2013.pdf | title=NAMS | publisher=NAMS |year=2015 | access-date=6 March 2015}}</ref> and the [[Royal College of Physicians of London]].<ref name="Endocrine Society of India" /><ref name="Vidwan" /><ref name="Emory University" /> He has been associated with several national and international bodies such as [[Indian Council of Medical Research]], [[Defence Research and Development Organization]], [[Department of Biotechnology]], [[National Institutes of Health]], Institute for International Health and [[British Heart Foundation]] for research on thyroid epidemiology, diabetes and metabolic bone diseases<ref name="Emory University" /> and has participated in many clinical trials.<ref name="Emory University" /><ref name="Clinical Trial">{{cite web | url=http://www.ctri.nic.in/Clinicaltrials/pmaindet2.php?trialid=5496 | title=Clinical Trial | publisher=CTRI |year=2015 | access-date=5 March 2015}}</ref> His research findings have been published in several national and international journals,<ref name="Vidwan" /><ref name="Emory University" /><ref name="AIIMS Publications">{{cite web | url=http://www.aiims.edu/aiims/departments/endocrino/endo_nikhil_pub.htm | title=AIIMS Publications of Nikhil Tandon | publisher=AIIMS Publications |year=2015 | access-date=5 March 2015}}</ref><ref name="Predicting adult metabolic syndrome from childhood body mass index: follow-up of the New Delhi birth cohort.">{{cite journal | pmid=19015213 | title=Predicting adult metabolic syndrome from childhood body mass index: follow-up of the New Delhi birth cohort. | vauthors=Sachdev HP, Osmond C, Fall CH, Lakshmy R, Ramji S, Dey Biswas SK, Prabhakaran D, Tandon N, Reddy KS, Barker DJ, Bhargava SK | journal=Arch Dis Child |date=October 2009 | volume=94 | issue=10 | pages=768–774 | doi=10.1136/adc.2008.140905 | pmc=2749731}}</ref><ref name="Reversible hypogonadism in Bardet-Biedl syndrome">{{cite journal | pmid=19327768 | title=Reversible hypogonadism in Bardet-Biedl syndrome | vauthors=Desai A, Jha O, Iyer V, Dada R, Kumar R, Tandon N | journal=Fertil Steril |date=July 2009 | volume=92 | issue=1 | pages=391.e13–5 | doi=10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.02.023| doi-access=free }}</ref> [[PubMed]] listing 454 of them in their online repository.<ref name="PubMed">{{cite journal | title=PubMed Profile |journal = Biochemical Pharmacology|volume = 24|issue = 20|pages = 1903–4|year=2015 |pmid = 20|last1 = Barthel|first1 = W.|last2 = Markwardt|first2 = F.|doi = 10.1016/0006-2952(75)90415-3}}</ref> He has also featured in the news for the [[pituitary tumor]] surgery of the then tallest woman in the world, Siddiqa Parveen.<ref name="ND TV">{{cite web | url=http://www.ndtv.com/delhi-news/delhi-worlds-tallest-woman-finds-new-lease-of-life-at-aiims-549103 | title=ND TV | publisher=ND TV | date=28 January 2014 | access-date=5 March 2015}}</ref>

The [[Medical Council of India]] awarded him [[Dr. B. C. Roy Award]] in the medical teaching category in 2005.<ref name="Endocrine Society of India" /> The [[Government of India]] followed it up with the civilian award of [[Padma Shri]] in 2015.<ref name="Padma Awards" /> He lives at the [[Asian Games Village (New Delhi)|Asian Games Village]] in New Delhi.<ref name="Vidwan" />

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==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite journal | pmid=19015213 | title=Predicting adult metabolic syndrome from childhood body mass index: follow-up of the New Delhi birth cohort. | vauthors=Sachdev HP, Osmond C, Fall CH, Lakshmy R, Ramji S, Dey Biswas SK, Prabhakaran D, Tandon N, Reddy KS, Barker DJ, Bhargava SK | journal=Arch Dis Child |date=October 2009 | volume=94 | issue=10 | pages=768–774 | doi=10.1136/adc.2008.140905 | pmc=2749731}}
* {{cite journal | pmid=19327768 | title=Reversible hypogonadism in Bardet-Biedl syndrome | vauthors=Desai A, Jha O, Iyer V, Dada R, Kumar R, Tandon N | journal=Fertil Steril |date=July 2009 | volume=92 | issue=1 | pages=391.e13–5 | doi=10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.02.023| doi-access=free }}

==External links==
* {{cite journal | title=PubMed Profile |journal = Biochemical Pharmacology|volume = 24|issue = 20|pages = 1903–4|year=2015 |pmid = 20|last1 = Barthel|first1 = W.|last2 = Markwardt|first2 = F.|doi = 10.1016/0006-2952(75)90415-3}}
* {{cite web | url=http://www.aiims.edu/aiims/departments/endocrino/endo_nikhil_pub.htm | title=AIIMS Publications of Nikhil Tandon | publisher=AIIMS Publications |year=2015 | access-date=5 March 2015}}

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[[Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge]]
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