Dr Misra is Chairman, Fortis-CDOC Center of Excellence for Diabetes, Metabolic Diseases, and Endocrinology, New Delhi, and Director, National Diabetes, Obesity and Cholesterol Foundation, and Diabetes Foundation (India). After doing undergraduate and postgraduation from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, he has worked in Royal Free Hospital in London, UK and at Department of Medicine and Endocrinology at Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Texas, USA as WHO Fellow and later, as a faculty. In India, Dr Misra has been participant of top Advisory Committees relating to Diabetes, Cardiovascular diseases, and Nutrition in India. He has been advisor to Ministry of Health, Indian Council of Medical Research and Department of Biotechnology on several issues related to diabetes and other non-communicable diseases.

Prof. Misra has more than 40 years of experience in teaching, service, research, and community health intervention programs and has published more than 350 scientific papers/chapters in the National and International journals (citations till Feb, 2023; ~ 39, 181, h-index 100 and i10 index: 410) and books. In 2021, an analysis of Stanford University, he is among top 2% of scientists in diabetes research from India to be ranked globally.

He is Editor-in-Chief of “Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research and Reviews” (Elsevier), and Clinical Keys (Elsevier), and Associate Editor of “Journal of Diabetes” (USA), and European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (UK). He is member, member Editorial Advisory Board of British Medical Journal, member, BMJ’s Regional Advisory Board for South Asia and member, Lancet Obesity Commission, 2023. Dr Misra has received numerous awards and 31 named orations. He has been awarded highest award for medicine in India Dr BC Roy award (2006) and India’s prestigious National Honor, Padma Shree (2007). He has received “Outstanding Investigator Award” from World India Diabetes Foundation in 2013. His current interest include research on nutrition, metabolism, and diabetes in relation to liver fat, pancreatic fat, lean skeletal muscle mass and vitamin D.He believes that everyone with diabetes should have access to quality care and that obesity should be treated as a chronic disease. He is committed to finding new ways to prevent and treat these conditions and to improving the lives of people affected by them.He is author of bestselling books “Diabetes with Delight” and “Diabetes ke Saath Khushaal Jeevan” (Bloomsbury).