Dr Vinod Nikhra is a Senior Consultant Physician and Faculty at NDMC Medical College and Hindu Rao Multi-speciality Public Hospital, New Delhi, India. He is a healthcare administrator, academician and clinician. He has been a Visitor at Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland and an Observing Physician at Alabama Medical Center – a tertiary care hospital in Opelika, Alabama, USA. He has been elected a Fellow by International Medical Sciences Academy and the Royal Society of Medicine, London. He has been Editor of ‘Madhya, the midage’, the official Journal of Association for Health in Middle Age during 2003-2006. He has been on Reviewer panel of, among others, the Family Practice, an Oxford University medical journal and International Journal of Obesity. His published books include, ‘Aging slowly, Living longer’ and ‘The Anti-obesity Guide’. Over the years he has contributed about hundred papers in leading national and international medical journals.