The top 10 diabetologists in Delhi listed below work out of a small number of institutions: AIIMS, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Indraprastha Apollo, Max Saket, BLK-Max, Fortis C-DOC, GTB Hospital and Medanta in Gurugram. Each entry carries the qualifications, department, OPD days and hours, address, appointment number and consultation fee that the hospital itself publishes.
Every figure below was checked against a primary source on 24/08/2026. Fees and timings change without notice, so ring the number listed before you travel.
How this list was put together
There is no official ranking of diabetes doctors in India, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. So this is not a scoreboard.
What it is: ten senior clinicians selected on markers you can verify for yourself. National honours such as the Padma awards and the Dr B.C. Roy Award. Formal DM Endocrinology training. Leadership of a hospital department or a national professional body. Authorship of India’s own diabetes guidelines. Published research with a citation record.
Every detail in this top 10 diabetologists in Delhi list comes from the hospital’s own website, the doctor’s own site, or the hospital’s own booking platform. Nothing here was taken from a directory listing or a review aggregator, because those are where stale phone numbers and invented fees live. Where two sources disagreed, that is said plainly in the entry rather than smoothed over.
One more thing worth being honest about. Delhi has hundreds of excellent diabetes clinicians who are not on this list, including many working in district hospitals and neighbourhood practices. Ten names cannot cover a city of this size. Treat this as a shortlist of places to start, not a verdict on anyone left out.
Top 10 diabetologists in Delhi at a glance
| Doctor | Institution | Area | Published OPD | Stated fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. (Dr.) Anoop Misra | Fortis C-DOC | Chirag Enclave | By appointment | ₹2,800 |
| Dr Ambrish Mithal | Max Healthcare | Saket, Panchsheel Park, Gurugram | Mon and Sat 9am to 3pm (Saket) | Not published |
| Prof. Nikhil Tandon | AIIMS New Delhi | Ansari Nagar | Via hospital OPD system | Government rates |
| Prof. S.V. Madhu | UCMS and GTB Hospital | Dilshad Garden | Via hospital OPD system | Government rates |
| Dr (Prof.) Surender Kumar | Sir Ganga Ram Hospital | Rajinder Nagar | Tue, Thu, Sat 3 to 5pm | Not published |
| Dr Ajay Aggarwal | Sir Ganga Ram Hospital | Rajinder Nagar | Mon to Sat 11am to 3pm | Not published |
| Dr S.K. Wangnoo | Indraprastha Apollo | Sarita Vihar | Via Apollo booking | ₹2,500 |
| Dr Saptarshi Bhattacharya | Indraprastha Apollo | Sarita Vihar | Via Apollo booking | ₹2,000 |
| Dr Ashok Kumar Jhingan | BLK-Max | Pusa Road | Mon to Fri 3 to 5pm | Not published |
| Dr Jasjeet Singh Wasir | Medanta | Sector 38, Gurugram | Via Medanta booking | Not published |
1. Prof. (Dr.) Anoop Misra, Fortis C-DOC
Anoop Misra is probably the most decorated diabetes physician working in Delhi today. Fortis Healthcare’s profile lists him as Executive Chairman of Fortis C-DOC, with MBBS and MD qualifications and 40 years of experience, and records both the Dr B.C. Roy Award in 2006 and the Padma Shri in 2007.
His research output is what sets him apart. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research and Reviews, President of the Diabetes Foundation (India) and Director of the National Diabetes, Obesity and Cholesterol Foundation, according to his own site. Much of the work on how metabolic risk behaves differently in South Asian bodies has his name on it.
He trained at AIIMS and taught there for a decade, heading its Diabetes and Metabolism Group, before moving into private practice.
Clinic: Fortis C-DOC, B-16, Chirag Enclave, Opposite Devika Tower, New Delhi 110048 Phone: +91 11 49101222 or +91 8130359222, email info@fortiscdoc.com (source) Appointments: +91 11 49101201, per his own site Consultation fee: ₹2,800, as listed on the Fortis doctor page on 24/08/2026 OPD timings: Fortis C-DOC does not publish per-doctor OPD hours online. Ring to book.
2. Dr Ambrish Mithal, Max Healthcare
If you want the single most transparent set of clinic timings in this list, this is it. Max Healthcare’s doctor page publishes his full weekly schedule across three sites.
Mithal is Group Chairman of Endocrinology and Diabetology at Max Healthcare. His leadership profile lists MBBS (1980) and MD (1984) from Kanpur University, DM in Endocrinology from AIIMS in 1987 and a Fogarty Fellowship at Harvard Medical School in 1993 to 1994.
He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2015 and the B.C. Roy Award in 2017. Medical Dialogues reported the Padma Bhushan independently when he moved from Medanta to Max in January 2020. Before Medanta, he was at Apollo Delhi and SGPGI Lucknow.
Bone and mineral metabolism is a second area of his, which matters more than it sounds: osteoporosis, vitamin D and diabetes overlap constantly in Indian patients.
OPD timings:
- Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket: Monday and Saturday 9:00 am to 3:00 pm; Tuesday and Thursday 9:00 am to 12 noon
- Max Hospital, Gurgaon: Monday and Friday 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
- Max Multi Speciality Centre, Panchsheel Park: Tuesday and Saturday 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Address (Saket): 1, 2, Press Enclave Marg, Saket Institutional Area, New Delhi 110017. Appointments: +91 926 888 0303. Consultation fee: not published on the Max site. Ask when booking.
3. Prof. Nikhil Tandon, AIIMS New Delhi
Tandon is Professor and Head of the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism at AIIMS New Delhi, per the institute’s own faculty page.
The scale of his academic footprint is unusual. Emory University’s Global Diabetes Research Center, which collaborates with him, records over 600 articles and an h-index of 85 and notes that he founded the CARRS cohort studying cardiometabolic risk in India.
The same profile states that he serves as Vice President of the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences, has been elected Chairman of the WHO Technical Advisory Group on Diabetes, and that his diabetes care model was adopted by India’s National Programme for NCDs.
He is also one of the three authors of the 2023 National Medical Journal of India commentary summarising what the ICMR-INDIAB study means for the country.
Address: AIIMS, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110029. Board number: +91-11-26588500 or +91-11-26588700. Appointments: AIIMS directs patients to its online registration system at ors.gov.in or its call centre. Expect a wait, and expect to be triaged into the department rather than to a named consultant. Fee: government hospital rates, which are nominal compared with private consultation.
Other current faculty in the department include Dr Yashdeep Gupta, Additional Professor.
4. Prof. S.V. Madhu, UCMS and GTB Hospital
The public-sector name most worth knowing in East Delhi. Madhu heads the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism and the Department of Medicine at University College of Medical Sciences and GTB Hospital, according to the India Health and Wellness Council, which also lists him as Secretary and Chairman of the Research Society for the Study of Diabetes in India.
His name carries particular weight because he is a co-author of the RSSDI-ESI Clinical Practice Recommendations for the Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus 2020, the document Indian diabetes physicians actually work from. His research profile lists him as Professor and Head of Endocrinology at UCMS with around 350 publications and roughly 10,900 citations.
Institution: University College of Medical Sciences and Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, Dilshad Garden, Delhi. Appointments: through the hospital’s OPD registration. GTB is a Delhi government teaching hospital, so consultation is free or near-free. A caveat: neither the college nor the hospital publishes a per-doctor OPD schedule that could be verified for this guide, so confirm the endocrinology OPD day before travelling.
5. Dr (Prof.) Surender Kumar, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
Of every hospital site checked for this guide, Sir Ganga Ram publishes the most usable detail, down to the room number. Surender Kumar’s page lists him as Advisor in Endocrinology and Metabolism, with MBBS from Medical College Amritsar (1982), MD from AFMC Pune (1990) and DM in Endocrinology and Metabolism from AIIMS New Delhi (2000). His stated clinical interests are diabetes, thyroid, obesity and other hormonal problems.
OPD: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm, Room F-40 Contact: 011-42251740 or 9810592691, by appointment Hospital address: Sir Ganga Ram Hospital Marg, Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi 110060, switchboard +91 11-42254000 Other clinics: he also consults at Noble Medicare in Janakpuri and Sama Nursing Home, 8 Siri Fort Road
A note on due diligence. A widely-read booking directory lists different qualification years for him and a ₹2,000 fee. Because that record contradicts the hospital’s own, no fee is quoted here. If a directory and a hospital disagree, believe the hospital.
6. Dr Ajay Aggarwal, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
Aggarwal is listed as Senior Consultant in Endocrinology and Metabolism and Chairperson of the Department of Endocrinology at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. His published OPD is the widest of anyone in this list, which matters if you work six days a week and cannot take a whole morning off.
OPD: Monday to Saturday, 11:00 am to 3:00 pm, Room F-40 Department clinics: the endocrinology department runs a dedicated Diabetes and Obesity Clinic and a Thyroid Clinic alongside bone health, growth, andrology and general endocrine clinics, per the department page Department OPD: General OPD on Tuesday and Friday, 9:00 am to 10:00 am; daily Private OPD 9:00 am to 6:00 pm Hospital: Sir Ganga Ram Hospital Marg, Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi 110060, +91 11-42254000
The general OPD hour is the cheaper route, and it is genuinely only an hour, twice a week, so arrive early.
7. Dr S.K. Wangnoo, Indraprastha Apollo
Apollo Hospitals Delhi’s endocrinology team page lists Wangnoo with MBBS, FRCP, DM and MD (Medicine), practising endocrinology and diabetes care at Indraprastha Apollo. Apollo’s own booking platform records 31 or more years of experience and states a consultation fee of ₹2,500 for both online and physical visits, as checked on 24/08/2026.
The DM alongside an FRCP is worth noting. It means super-speciality endocrine training on top of membership of a Royal College, which is an uncommon combination in Delhi practice.
Hospital: Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, Sarita Vihar, Delhi Mathura Road, New Delhi 110076. Consultation fee: ₹2,500. Appointments: through Apollo’s booking platform or the hospital switchboard. The hospital runs 24×7 emergency services.
8. Dr Saptarshi Bhattacharya, Indraprastha Apollo
Apollo’s booking page lists MBBS, MD, DM Endocrinology from AIIMS New Delhi and FACE, with 15 or more years of experience, and a consultation fee of ₹2,000 as at 24/08/2026. He consults in English, Hindi and Bengali.
His Apollo Hospitals profile records membership of the Executive Committee of the Endocrine Society of India from 2021 to 2024, and that he is an ex-President and founding member of the Society for Promotion of Education in Endocrinology and Diabetes.
Hospital: Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, Sarita Vihar, Delhi Mathura Road, New Delhi 110076 Consultation fee: ₹2,000
9. Dr Ashok Kumar Jhingan, BLK-Max Super Speciality Hospital
BLK-Max lists him as Principal Director of the Centre for Diabetes, Thyroid, Obesity and Endocrinology, with MBBS, MD (Medicine), MAMS, FICA and FIAMS, and states 49 or more years of experience. On that figure, he is among the longest-practising diabetes physicians in the city.
A transparency note: the Max Healthcare mirror of the same profile lists his experience as 6 or more years, which is plainly a data error somewhere in their system. The 49-year figure is the one on BLK-Max’s own page, and it fits his role and qualifications, but the discrepancy is worth knowing about.
OPD: Monday to Friday, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm, per the Max Healthcare doctor page. Hospital address: Pusa Road, Radha Soami Satsang, Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi 110005. Appointments: +91 926 888 0303. The hospital does not publish his fee online and directs enquiries to that number. Hospital helpline: +91-11-30403040, emergency 011-4055 4055
10. Dr Jasjeet Singh Wasir, Medanta
For readers in south-west Delhi and Gurugram, this is the shortest journey. Medanta lists Wasir as Director of the Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes, with MD (Internal Medicine) and MBBS, and describes nearly ten years of experience in diabetes and metabolic diseases. His focus areas are diabetes, obesity and thyroid disorders, and he practises at both Medanta Gurugram and Medanta Mediclinic Golf Course.
Address: Medanta The Medicity, CH Baktawar Singh Road, Sector 38, Gurugram, Haryana 122001. Phone: +91-88-0000-1068, emergency 1068. Consultation fee and OPD hours: not published online. Book through Medanta’s care portal or the number above.
Also worth knowing
Fortis C-DOC’s team extends well beyond its chairman. Dr Ritesh Gupta is Additional Director there, and his stated interests are type 1 diabetes, insulin pumps and male hormonal disorders, which is a genuinely narrow specialism in Delhi and useful to know if you or your child are pump-dependent. The centre also lists Dr Alka Jha, Dr Vimal Gupta, Dr Amrita Ghosh and Dr Suhail Durani.
At Sir Ganga Ram, Dr Setu Gupta is an Associate Consultant with DM Endocrinology and Metabolism from AIIMS (2022), running a general OPD on Friday mornings and a private OPD Monday to Saturday, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. Younger consultants often have shorter waiting lists.
Apollo Delhi’s endocrinology roster also includes Dr Asim Siddiqui, Dr C.M. Batra, Dr I.P.S. Kochar, Dr R.P. Singh and Dr Richa Chaturvedi.
Why Delhi needs this many diabetes specialists
The numbers explain the queues. India’s diabetes prevalence stands at 11.4% with a further 15.3% living with prediabetes, as Mohan, Anjana and Tandon summarised in the National Medical Journal of India in 2023, drawing on the ICMR-INDIAB study. That is roughly 101 million people with diabetes and 136 million with prediabetes.
Delhi sits far above the national line. The same paper states that in large metropolitan cities including Delhi, prevalence in adults over 20 is over 25%. One adult in four.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has cited the same ICMR-INDIAB figure of 10.1 crore and points to the National Programme for Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases, under which 724 district NCD clinics and 6,110 community health centre NCD clinics have been set up. Treatment in government hospitals is described as free or highly subsidised for the poor and needy, including free insulin.
Which is worth remembering before assuming a ₹2,800 private consultation is the only route.
Diabetologist or endocrinologist: which do you actually need?
The two words get used interchangeably in Delhi, and they do not mean the same thing.
An endocrinologist has completed a DM in Endocrinology, which Medical Dialogues describes as a three-year super-speciality course taken after an MD, MS or DNB, regulated by the National Medical Commission. The curriculum covers disorders of the pituitary, thyroid, adrenal glands, pancreas and gonads, so diabetes is one part of a much wider remit. In this guide, Mithal, Surender Kumar, Bhattacharya and Setu Gupta hold that qualification.
A diabetologist, in Indian usage, is usually a physician with MBBS and MD in Medicine who has built a practice around diabetes. Depth of daily experience can be enormous. Misra, Jhingan and Wasir sit in this group by the qualifications their hospitals list, and all three direct a diabetes centre or division.
For straightforward type 2 diabetes, either can manage you well. Where the question reaches beyond blood sugar, into the pituitary, adrenal or thyroid territory the DM curriculum covers, the super-speciality training is the more relevant one. If you are already being treated for hypothyroidism alongside diabetes, one endocrinologist handling both is simpler than two clinicians who never speak to each other.
When should you see a specialist rather than your GP?
Most people with type 2 diabetes are managed perfectly well in primary care, and there is no need to escalate by default.
The evidence for specialist referral is real but narrower than clinic marketing suggests. A 2023 retrospective cohort study in Endocrine Practice, matching 508 pairs of patients with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes, found that those treated by endocrinologists had roughly twice the odds of achieving a fall in HbA1c of at least 1% within a year.
The odds ratio was 2.27 (95% CI 1.6 to 3.2), and the authors identified 96 patient profiles that favoured referral.
Two honest caveats. That study was done in Israel within a single insurer’s registry, so it does not transfer neatly to Delhi. And it looked at patients whose diabetes was already uncontrolled, which is exactly the group most likely to benefit. It is not evidence that everyone with diabetes should see a specialist.
India’s RSSDI-ESI recommendations advise treating each new tablet or dose increase as a trial, ‘monitoring the response through glucose monitoring (FPG, PPG, self-monitoring of blood glucose [SMBG] or HbA1c) every 2-3 months’. If several of those two-to-three-month reviews have passed without your numbers moving, that is a fair moment to ask your doctor whether a specialist opinion would help.
Other situations worth raising with your own doctor include repeated hypoglycaemia, a new complication such as changing vision or numb feet, pregnancy or planning one, and diabetes diagnosed at a young age or behaving unlike typical type 2.
Persistent early signs of high blood sugar despite treatment are worth acting on rather than waiting out, and there are good reasons not to leave it.
What does a diabetes consultation cost in Delhi?
Based on what these hospitals published on 24/08/2026, a private consultation with a senior name runs between roughly ₹2,000 and ₹2,800. Bhattacharya is listed at ₹2,000, Wangnoo at ₹2,500 and Misra at ₹2,800.
Several hospitals do not publish a figure at all, including Max, BLK-Max, Sir Ganga Ram and Medanta. That is not evasiveness so much as pricing that varies by branch, by first visit versus follow-up, and by video versus in-person.
The public route costs far less. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare states that treatment in government hospitals is ‘either free or highly subsidised for the poor and needy’, and that free essential medicines including insulin are provided, which is why a specialist opinion in Delhi is not restricted to people who can spend a few thousand rupees.
Budget separately for tests, whichever route you take. Blood work is usually ordered at a first specialist visit and can cost more than the consultation itself, so ask what is being requested and why.
What to bring to your first appointment
Bring the last two years of blood test reports in date order, not just the most recent one. A trend tells a specialist more in ten seconds than a single number does.
Bring your actual medicine strips or a photograph of them, including doses and timings. ‘A small white tablet in the morning’ wastes clinic minutes you have paid for.
Bring two weeks of home glucose readings if you have them, with the time of day and whether it was before or after a meal. If you do not own a meter yet, a basic home glucometer costs less than one private consultation and makes every future appointment more useful.
Write down your three most important questions before you go. Delhi OPD slots are short, and the questions people most want answered are the ones that get forgotten in the room.
What a good diabetes consultation should cover
Not just a prescription. Ask for a review of your glucose pattern rather than a single reading, and ask what the plan is for the complications diabetes is screened for: eyes, kidneys and feet.
It should also involve a conversation about food that goes beyond ‘avoid sugar’. The relevant question in an Indian diet is usually how the rice, roti and portion sizes are structured across the day, which is where everyday Indian foods that help manage blood sugar become more practical than a blanket restriction list.
If your weight is the main driver, ask directly about newer options. GLP-1 drugs in India have changed the conversation considerably since generic semaglutide arrived, and a good specialist will tell you honestly whether you are a candidate or not.
And ask what your personal HbA1c target is. India’s own RSSDI-ESI 2020 recommendations explicitly reject a single number for everyone, advising clinicians to ‘customise therapy focusing on individualised target HbA1c for each patient based on: age, duration of diabetes, comorbidities, cost of therapy, hypoglycaemia risk, weight gain, durability’.
The same document says near-normal targets suit younger patients with recently diagnosed diabetes and few complications, while slightly higher targets may be appropriate for older patients with long-standing disease and cardiovascular complications.
If your doctor cannot tell you your target, that is a reasonable reason to seek a second opinion.
Can you see these doctors online?
Some, yes. Apollo lists identical online and physical fees for Wangnoo, ₹2,500 either way, which tells you the hospital treats a video consultation as equivalent rather than as a cheap substitute. Several of the other hospitals here offer video slots too, so ask when you ring.
Teleconsultation works well for reviewing reports, adjusting doses and follow-ups. It works poorly for a first assessment, because nobody can examine your feet through a phone. A sensible pattern is one in-person visit to establish the picture, then video for routine reviews.
Before you book
Ring first. Every timing and fee in this guide to the top 10 diabetologists in Delhi was accurate on the hospital’s own website on 24/08/2026, and senior consultants change their OPD days more often than websites get updated.
Ask three things when you call: is the doctor consulting on the day you want, what is the current fee for a new patient, and should you come fasting. That last one saves a wasted trip more often than anything else.
If you are still at the stage of trying to understand why your numbers are drifting rather than choosing a specialist, insulin resistance is usually the mechanism sitting underneath, and understanding it makes the consultation itself far more productive.
This guide is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice; inclusion here is not an endorsement of any individual clinician. Choose a doctor with your own GP’s input where possible, and discuss any change to your treatment with the clinician who knows your history.
Sources
Hospital and clinician profiles, all fetched 24/08/2026
- Fortis Healthcare, Dr Anoop Misra, Diabetology and Endocrinology, Fortis C-DOC
- Fortis C-DOC, Contact Us and Dr Ritesh Gupta
- Anoop Misra, official website
- Max Healthcare, Dr Ambrish Mithal, leadership profile and doctor page with OPD timings
- Max Healthcare, Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket and BLK-Max Super Speciality Hospital
- Max Healthcare, Dr Ashok Kumar Jhingan; BLK-Max, Dr Ashok Kumar Jhingan and Contact Us
- Medical Dialogues, ‘Padma Bhushan endocrinologist Dr Ambrish Mithal moves from Medanta to join Max Healthcare’, 2020, updated 2022
- AIIMS New Delhi, Dr Nikhil Tandon and Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism faculty
- Emory Global Diabetes Research Centre, Nikhil Tandon, affiliated faculty
- IHW Council, Dr S.V. Madhu; ResearchGate, S.V. Madhu research profile
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Dr (Prof.) Surender Kumar, Dr Ajay Aggarwal and Dr Setu Gupta
- Apollo Hospitals, Endocrinology team, Delhi and Dr Saptarshi Bhattacharya
- Apollo 24|7, Dr Subhash Wangnoo, Dr Saptarshi Bhattacharya and Indraprastha Apollo Hospital
- Medanta, Dr Jasjeet Singh Wasir and Medanta Gurugram
Clinical and epidemiological sources
- Mohan V, Anjana RM, Tandon N. ‘Lessons Learnt from the ICMR–INDIAB Study’, The National Medical Journal of India, 2023
- Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. ‘Update on treatment of Diabetes’, Press Information Bureau, 01/08/2023
- Chawla R, Madhu SV, Makkar BM, et al. ‘RSSDI-ESI Clinical Practice Recommendations for the Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus 2020’, International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries, 2020;40(Suppl 1):S1-S122
- Avnat E, et al. ‘Identifying Profiles of Patients With Uncontrolled Type 2 Diabetes Who Would Benefit From Referral to an Endocrinologist’, Endocrine Practice, 2023
- Medical Dialogues, ‘DM Endocrinology: Admissions, Medical Colleges, Fees, Eligibility Criteria Details’
