About Janaka

Janaka is a Clinical Reader (Associate Professor) in Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease in the School of Cardiovascular Medicine & Sciences at King's College London and Consultant Physician in Diabetes, Endocrinology and General Internal Medicine at Guy’s and St Thomas Hospital London.

He graduated with a distinction in medicine from the University of London and was awarded a PhD for research on the pathophysiology and treatment of cardiovascular disease and renal disease in diabetes. Janaka leads research projects focussed on cardio-renal disease predictors and biomarkers and their potential for real world application to guide risk stratification of people at high risk of rapid progression of kidney disease.

He speaks frequently at national and international meetings, has published more than 100 articles on cardiovascular and renal disease and recently led on the United Kingdom diabetes and kidney association joint guidelines for people with diabetic kidney disease.

He is an active clinician with more than 20 years of experience and specialist expertise managing patients with renal and cardio-vascular complications related to diabetes at Guy’s and St Thomas Hospital and has also established community based cardio-renal metabolic clinics in London focussed on early identification and treatment to reduce cardiovascular and renal complications.

Janaka is passionate about developing and delivering practical clinical medical education and teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students at King’s College London. He is also involved in education of health care professionals and specialist trainees in medicine with a focus on diabetes cardio-renal metabolic complications and their treatment. He is a member of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) teaching and education committee and keen to explore new collaborations in his role as associate editor for European Federation of Internal Medicine (EFIM) Academy.