Dr Kamlesh Khunti Diabetes expert on list of influential GPs

Dr Kamlesh Khunti
A diabetes expert from Leicester has been voted one of the most influential GPs in the country.
Dr Kamlesh Khunti is in the top 50 of family doctors who have helped shaped health care in the past year in a list published by Pulse magazine, one of the country’s leading medical publications.
Prof Khunti, 49, has been a GP in Leicester for more than 20 years, although much of his work is now centred on diabetes research.
He is professor of diabetes and cardiovascular medicine at the University of Leicester and on the primary care diagnosis of diabetes.
Prof Khunti, whose practice is in Hockley Farm, Braunstone, has helped the Royal College of General Practitioners to improve the diagnosis of patients with diabetes.
He also works as an adviser to the Department of Health on its national vascular screening programme.
The programme, introduced through GP surgeries, helps to detect early signs of heart disease, stroke, diabetes and kidney disease.
Prof Khunti was brought up in the city and returned to Leicester after training to be a doctor in Scotland.
Along with Professor Melanie Davies, from the University of Leicester, he has developed the self-education Desmond programme which helps patients with type two diabetes control their condition.
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