Vijay Babu Balakrishnan MD, CCD

• CSIR foreign travel grant
  2006
  CSIR foreign travel grant for young scientists/scholars
• ARCCNM award
  2006
  ARCCNM award for outstanding paper in 9th World congress of Nuclear Medicine and Biology
• Young investigator
  2006
  Young investigator award at the 53rd Annual meeting of Society of Nuclear Medicine by the IASNM
• Best resident of the month
  2009

• Co-investigator in a Randomized Controlled Trial on the Efficacy of Sitagliptin Therapy for the Inpatient Management of General Medicine and Surgery Patients with Type 2 Diabetes - 2014
• Principal investigator in residency research project, “Remission and resolution of type 2 diabetes mellitus after bariatric surgery – a community hospital experience”
• Principal investigator in residency research project, “Evaluation of Cardiac Function in Patients receiving Anthracycline therapy”
• Balakrishnan VB, Siraj ES. Effective Use of U-500 Insulin via Insulin Pump in a Type 2 Diabetes Patient with Severe Insulin Resistance. In Diabetes Case Studies. Draznin B, Low Wang CC, Rubin DJ, Eds. Alexandria, VA, American Diabetes Association, 2015, p. 102-104

ADDITIONAL INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO:

• Effect of Mifepristone on Cushing’s syndrome due to bilateral adrenal adenomas. Presented in The Endocrine Society’s 96th Annual Meeting & Expo, Chicago 2014.
• A rare case of Adult-onset Nesidioblastosis presenting with asymptomatic hypoglycemia and peripheral neuropathy. Presented in the 22nd Annual Meeting of the AACE, Phoenix 2013.
• Marine-Lenhart Syndrome with a Malignant Hyperfunctioning Nodule – A Rare Presentation of a rare Syndrome. Presented in the 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Thyroid Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico 2013.
• Pituitary apoplexy – a diagnostic challenge. Presented in the 22nd Annual Meeting of the AACE, Phoenix 2013.
• Uncommon cause of hypoglycemia in a diabetic patient – Salicylate toxicity. Presented in the 22nd Annual Meeting of the AACE, Phoenix 2013.
• Yet another cause of chest pain – Intracardiac Inferior vena cava filter migration. Presented in the Annual AMA-RFS annual research symposium, San diego 2010.

• Sixty Percent Of People With Thyroid Disease Don’t Know They Have It: Are You One Of Them?