Ananda Basu MD, FRCP

Dr. Ananda Basu, MD., FRCP (UK) is the Harrison Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology at the University of Virginia. He received his MD degree from Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) in Pondicherry, India in 1986 and thereafter trained in Endocrinology at the General Hospital in Birmingham, UK. In 1993, he joined the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN where he trained as a clinician-investigator in the area of integrative physiology of diabetes in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Rizza along with a clinical fellowship in Endocrinology. Thereafter, he joined the Mayo faculty in 2000 where he rose to the rank of full Professor in 2011.

He was recently recruited to the UVA faculty as part of a strategic initiative to bolster the clinical component of the Center of Diabetes Technology and translational physiology research in type 1 diabetes at UVA. He worked in China as part of the CID China Initiative for Diabetes Excellence introducing the basics of evidence-based medicine. At UVA, besides continuing his physiology research into type 1 diabetes, Dr. Basu plans to develop and start an outpatient Diabetes Technology Clinic while applying state-of-the-art cloud-based decision support systems that have been developed at the Center for Diabetes Technology at UVA.