Biography

Kamlesh Khunti is Professor of Primary Care Diabetes and Vascular Medicine at the University of Leicester. He is Director of Leicester Diabetes Centre, Director of the NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARC) East Midlands, Director of Centre for Ethnic Health Research and Director of The Real-World Evidence Unit. He leads a programme of work on cardiometabolic diseases and multiple long-term conditions (MLTC). He was recently appointed as Director of the first NIHR Global Health Research Centre for Multiple Long-Term Conditions and is Co-lead for the Cross NIHR Collaboration for Multiple Long-Term Conditions. He is the national NIHR ARC Lead for MLTC and was awarded the Commander of the order of the British Empire (CBE).