Biography

Dr. Kshitij Shankhdhar established the first diabetic foot clinic of north India called Lucknow Diabetic Foot Care Clinic and Research Centre under L.K.Diabetes Centre, Lucknow, India. For 15 years, Dr Kshitij Shankhdhar has been actively involved in diabetes care and diabetic foot amputation prevention. Dr. Shankhdhar holds the credit of inventing (in the year 2000) - The Samadhan System of Offloading the diabetic foot. His work in the field of Diabetic foot care has been selected for oral presentation at most esteemed international conferences in Diabetology, organized by associations like The International Diabetes Federation, American Diabetes Association, Canadian Diabetes Association, European Association for the Study of Diabetes, Diabetic Foot Study Group (EASD), Wounds UK, Diabetic Foot Global Conference and many others in different parts of the world. In the year 2009, he solely conducted a 2 day workshop on diabetic foot, organized by the International Diabetes Federation, at Seychelles, Africa in which he trained a number of African doctors and nurses. On 23rd April, 2015 he delivered a 40 minute key note lecture at International Diabetic foot conference at Novosibirsk, Russia. In April 2016, he was faculty speaker at 7th Abu Dhabi wound care conference and also Chairman of a session. Dr. Shankhdhar is the Working President of the UPMA - Uttar Pradesh Madhumeh (the word madhumeh means diabetes in Hindi language) Association in the state Uttar Pradesh, India. He had successfully established a first of its kind, UPMA's Medical College of Diabetology, for a structured education program for people with diabetes. He strongly believes in the words of Dr. Elliott Joslin (regarded as the father of modern diabetes care), “The person with diabetes who knows the most lives the longest.”

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Research Interest

Diabetes Medical Care, Diabetes Education, Diabetic foot care (Podiatry)