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am honored and humbled to add Dr. Lakshmi K Shankhdhar to our advisory board.
Dr. Kshitij Shankhdhar M.B.B.S., Dip. Diab., DDM, PGDND
Diabetologist
& Incharge, Lucknow Diabetic Foot Care Clinic, L.K. Diabetes
Centre, Lucknow, India
58
year old Dr. Lakshmi K Shankhdhar is a triple post graduate (Medicine,
Radiology and Nutrition) physician who holds the distinction of establishing
North India's still only exclusive Diabetes clinic at Lucknow by the name of
L.K. Diabetes Centre. The clinic has a multidisciplinary approach to manage
diabetes patients.
His
unaided purely private clinic is housed in 2 premises with approximately 20
rooms and is rendering only primary level diabetes care with separate
departments such as Nutrition, Diabetes education, Podiatry, pathology,
radiology and Surgery.
The
clinic has several baseline tools to render quality care to the patients such
as software on diet which renders special diet plans for routine patients and
for patients with complications such as obesity, renal failure, CAD,
hyperuricemia, dyslipidemia, pregnancy and growing T1 diabetes children. The
software offers all Indian menus such as North Indian, West Indian, East Indian
and South Indian recipes with up to 7 days variability. The Nutrition department
has raised 2 special diabetes diets; DIAL Diet (Diet Including Acarbose
Liberalizes) and VILD Diet (Voglibose Inclusion Liberalizes diet) which have
been presented to the American Diabetes Association and International Diabetes Federation
respectively.
Dr. Lakshmi K Shankhdhar presenting his findings at the American Diabetes Association 2009
The
full fledged Obesity Unit is equipped with Omron's Body fat analyzer to
calculate body fat percentage and BMR
The
Podiatric Unit of L.K. Diabetes Centre is most elaborate and has fetched many
laurels. It is equipped with advanced instruments such as Biothesiometer and
hand held audio Doppler for calculating Ankle Brachial Index. Podotrack for
plantar pressure assessment is also available in the clinic. A unique, low cost
yet effective offloading device, called "Samadhan System" with several guest
presentations in many international Podiatric conferences was discovered by this
unit.
The
diabetes Education Unit has emphasis on both group education and individual
education. The clinic has an improvised Studio to make video films for diabetes
education and a simple concept of film making has been discovered by the unit.
The concept was presented in the last ADA-2009 at New Orleans and has been
accepted for Faculty Oration for ADA 2010.
The
Podiatric Surgery Unit has a minor Operation Theatre is also provisioned for
minor surgeries, required for day to day podiatric care.
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Several
new concepts with the capability to change diabetes care in the developing
world have been evolved in this clinic and presented in ADA, EASD or IDF.
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There
are 4 physicians in the clinic, Dr. Lakshmi K Shankhdhar, Dr. Uma Shankhdhar,
Dr. Kshitij Shankhdhar and Dr. Smita Shankhdhar along with a devoted team of
paramedics.
· Medical Director for the Clinic, Dr. L.K. Shankhdhar was offered Visiting Fellowship by Harvard Medical International, the International arm of Harvard Medical School (Boston) in 2009.
Educated at King George's Medical University
, Lucknow , India
Dr. L.K. Shankhdhar receiving the prestigious Visiting Fellowship by Harvard Medical International, the International arm of Harvard Medical School (Boston) in 2009. Harvard Fellowship
Dr. L.K. Shankhdhar Is a widely published and recognized as an international expert. Some of his published articles include:
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Published: International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot
The working group is Part of the International IDF.
About the International Diabetes Federation
The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) is the global advocate for
the 250 million people with diabetes worldwide as well as their
families and healthcare providers. It is an umbrella organization
representing over 200 diabetes associations in more than 160 countries.
IDF is a non-governmental organization in official relations with the
World Health Organization and associated with the Department of Public
Information of the United Nations (UN).
The mission of IDF is “to promote diabetes care, prevention and a cure
worldwide”, a statement of intent that addresses the challenges facing
the global diabetes community in the 21st century.
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