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Dr. Surya Prakash Bhatt is presently working as a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine (P.C.C.S.M.) at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (A.I.I.M.S.), New Delhi, India. He worked as senior Research Scientist (2015-2020) from the department of Pediatrics and P.C.C.S.M., New Delhi. Further, he has completed his Post-doctoral fellowship (2012-2015) from Department of Neuro-Biochemistry and P.C.C.S.M., New Delhi, India and PhD in Medical Biotechnology (2006-2011) from A.I.I.M.S., Jamia Hamdard, University and Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), New Delhi.

Dr. Bhatt have been working in the field of Metabolic Research including obesity, diabetes, sleep apnea, muscle mass, vitamin D deficiency, and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) for 17 years. During this period, He has established Sleep Laboratory, Metabolic research laboratory, Molecular, and Biochemistry laboratories and standardized all techniques used in modern-day research and in-charge of these laboratories. In addition, I am expert in Basic and Clinical Science, Clinical and Translational Health, and Clinical and Drug Trials research experience and leading a group (50 research staff).

His academic dedication can be judged from my publications as he has already published 50 full research papers in national and international journals and more than 55 abstracts in international and national journals with good impact factors. He has also presented his research work in different international (USA, Germany, Spain, Bangkok, Srilanka, and Nepal) and national conferences. Further, he got many awards & honors; best humanitarian award in 2020, best research excellence award from the Institute of scholars (2020), world sleep day activity from world sleep congress (2017), Young Scientist project (2014) from Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi, India; young investigator award in World sleep Congress, Seoul Korea, 2015 and clinical research scholarships by Indian Council of Medical Research (2007).

For the first time in India, he and his group have shown that OSA is a major contributor in acceleration of cellular aging processes through telomere shortening in Asian Indians (Bhatt et al, 2021). In another study, besides age, obesity, and subcutaneous adiposity (predominantly truncal) are major contributors to telomerase shortening in Asian Indian women with prediabetes (Bhatt et al, 2021). He also analyzed polymorphisms of insulin resistance (Bhatt et al, 2021), pro-inflammatory cytokine genes (Bhatt et al, 2019) and systemic inflammation (Bhatt et al, 2019) for OSA and NAFLD, vitamin D deficiency in prediabetes (Bhatt et al, 2020 & 2018), obesity (Bhatt et al, 2014), and fatty liver (Bhatt et al, 2012), a new index for prediction of fatty liver (Bhatt et al, 2015), novel gene (Myostatin, Bhatt et al, 2014) for muscle mass and body fat, and multiple genes for fatty liver (Bhatt et al, 2017, and obesity (Bhatt et al, 2012, review) in Indians. Another contribution of his work is conducting a large-scale intensive Health Education Awareness Programs and Medical Camps among commercial vehicle drivers (100 transporters), children, parents, and public on the health impact of obesity, sleep apnea, malnutrition, sedentary lifestyle, and air pollution across 100 schools/colleges and more than 100 residential associations in urban and rural areas, Delhi and NCR, India, and participated in more than 20,000 students, their parents, and teachers. The Health Education Awareness Programs has been given through lectures, workshops, group discussions, leaflets/booklets, and audio-video media. He also initiated health education programs and medical camps focusing on women in the age 20-60 years, targeted for proper nutrition and lifestyle advice and early detection of bone disorders, pre-diabetes and diabetes. This program included about 2000 women from urban and rural areas. They were made aware through lectures, workshops, group discussions, leaflets/booklets, and audio, video media on dietary vitamin D intake and sun exposure. His long-term goal is to become an independent team leader in medical research.