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Kavita VENKATARAMAN is currently an Associate Professor at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore. She is a clinician and epidemiologist, with research interests in the areas of cardiometabolic diseases with a specific focus on diabetes and its complications, rehabilitation care, care integration, patient perspectives of care, and patient-reported outcomes. She has authored several articles in reputed international journals and has several competitively funded research projects, completed and ongoing in these areas. She also works closely with the Ministry of Health, Singapore, on diabetes and post-acute care. Within the school, she is involved in undergraduate medical and non-medical, graduate, and doctoral student teaching on the topics of non-communicable diseases and research methods. Dr Venkataraman was previously with the WHO Country Office India, working as the National Consultant for Non- Communicable Diseases and Mental Health.

• NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (Primary)
• NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (Joint)

• Cardio-metabolic diseases, rehabilitation care, care integration
• Patient perspectives of care and patient reported outcomes

• Non-communicable disease epidemiology, prevention and control
• Health behaviour change

• MBBS(2002), University of Delhi, India
• PG DHA(2004), University of Delhi, India
• PhD(2009), University of Delhi, India

• NMRC Transition Award for budding Clinician Scientists – Nov 2013
• Runner Up – Best Young Investigator Oral Presentation – SIPHC 2012

• 2005-2009: National Consultant (Non-Communicable Diseases and Mental Health), World Health Organization, Country Office for India
• 2010-2012: Research Fellow, Translational Clinical Research (TCR) Flagship Programme on Developmental Pathways to Metabolic Disease, NUS
• 2013-2014: Lecturer, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, NUS
• 2014-2021: Assistant Professor, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, NUS
• 2021-current: Associate Professor, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, NUS

• Short Term Strength and Balance Training Does Not Improve Quality of Life, but Improves Functional Status in Patients with Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Venkataraman K, Tai BC, Khoo EYH, Tavintharan S, Chandran K, Hwang SW, Phua M, Wee HL, Koh GCH, Tai ES. Diabetologia (accepted)
• Altered motor and motor perceptual cognitive imagery task related activation in diabetic peripheral neuropathy: insights from functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Venkataraman K, Pun V, Mohamed AZ, Luo M, Wong C, Zong F, Khoo EYH, Tai ES, Nasrallalah F. Diabetes Care (accepted)
• Association of diabetes treatment with long-term glycemic patterns in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A prospective cohort study. Luo M, Tan CS, Lim WY, Chia KS, Tang WE, Tai ES, Venkataraman K. Diabetes Metabolism Research and Reviews. 2019 May;35(4):e3122.
• Cohort Profile: LIFE course study in CARdiovascular disease Epidemiology (LIFECARE). Shafiq M, Fong AYY, Tai ES, Nang EEK, Wee HL, Adam J, Woodward M, Sritara P, Poulton R, Sy R, Venkataraman K. International Journal of Epidemiology. 2018 /ije/dyy168.
• Longitudinal trends in HbA1c, patterns and associations with outcomes: a systematic review. Luo M, Tan KHX, Tan CS, Lim WY, Tai ES, Venkataraman K. Diabetes Metabolism Research and Reviews. 2018 Apr 17:e3015.

View her full list of publications here.

• Lifestyle diseases swamp Asia’s healthcare systems, SciDev.Net, 14 December 2018
• New study shows right way for diabetics, The Straits Times, 6 October 2017
• 本地研究得知： 血糖管控不好糖尿病患中风肾衰风险高, Lianhe Zaobao, 6 October 2017