Faculty Distinction Fund Awardee

K. M. Venkat Narayan, MD, MSc, MBA, FRCP

Dr. Narayan is the Ruth and O.C. Hubert Professor of Global Health and Epidemiology at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Narayan is a product of three continents and has a richly diverse background. He is a physician-scientist trained in internal medicine, geriatric medicine, and preventive medicine, and specializes in the epidemiology and prevention of diabetes, obesity, and vascular diseases.

Until recently, he led the Diabetes Epidemiology and Statistics Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Dr. Narayan was a Visiting Scientist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for four years before joining CDC in 1996.  He is an investigator in several large, multi-center, national studies of diabetes (e.g., The TRIAD Study of diabetes quality of care, Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), The ACCORD Trial of CVD Prevention, and The SEARCH study of diabetes in children).  Additionally he leads the Emory Global Health Institute-funded diabetes research center in Madras and has led studies focusing on health impacts of global migration.

He has authored/coauthored over 190 peer-reviewed publications, including invited textbook chapters and several editorials. His editorial activities have included appointments as associate editor of Primary Care Diabetes and Clinical Diabetes; Editorial Board Canadian Diabetes Journal and Diabetes & Technology; and guest editorship of Annals of Internal Medicine and Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. 

He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, and the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians (UK).

For more information, contact:
K.M. Venkat Narayan, MD, MSc, MBA, FRCP
Ruth and O.C. Hubert Professor of Global Health
Rollins School of Public Health
kmvnarayan@sph.emory.edu