Qualifications: MBBS, MD, PhD, CCT (Diab&Endo), FRCP, PGDip (Clinical Education)
Current roles:
Consultant Physician: ENDOCRINOLOGY & DIABETES & GENERAL MEDICINE, Royal Bolton Hospital
Honorary Senior Lecturer & Co-lead for Endocrinology - Edge Hill University Medical School
Honorary Lecturer - Manchester University
Member of the Diabetes Board - Greater Manchester and Eastern Cheshire Strategic Clinical Network.
Co-lead for Professional development and Executive Committee member: Association of British Clinical Diabetologists.
Clinical Champion: Diabetes UK
Associate Editor: British Journal of Diabetes.
Conversant in: English, Bengali, Hindi, and Urdu.
Dr. Banerjee qualified in 1992 and completed his MD degree in 1996. He did his basic medical training in the North-West of England and higher training in Diabetes and Endocrinology in Wales and the North-West of England. During his higher training, he also completed his Ph.D. from Manchester University as a recipient of a very prestigious grant from the British Heart Foundation.
After completing his training in 2009, he worked as a Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology at the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust, and Wirral University Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust before joining The Bolton Foundation NHS Trust in 2015, where he was the Clinical Lead for the last 5 years. In 2020, he was selected as a Clinical Champion of Diabetes-UK. He serves as a member of the Diabetes board and leads the Antenatal diabetes service at the Greater Manchester and Eastern Cheshire Strategic Clinical Network.
He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer and Co-lead for Endocrinology at Edge Hill University Medical School. He is deeply involved in teaching and currently supervises and teaches Undergraduate medical students (Manchester University and Edge Hill University) as well as trainee doctors placed at the Diabetes & Endocrine unit at the Royal Bolton Hospital. Over the years, he has taught medical trainees, Primary Care physicians, and nurses in his field of Diabetes and Endocrinology as well as General Medicine. He is the joint lead for Professional Development of the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists and a co-opted member of its Executive Committee.
He has designed and runs UK's first course to help prepare the Specialist Registrars in Diabetes and Endocrinology for their Specialty Certificate Examination since 2009. This has been running for the last 14 years and now attracts international attendees.
He has led research projects, and quality improvement projects, and published peer-reviewed articles in various journals of Diabetes and Endocrinology. He has been invited to speak at fora both within the UK and internationally, including in India and Bahrain. He is an Associate Editor of the British Journal of Diabetes.
His hobbies include reading, cricket, traveling, and landscape photography.
He has been in private practice since 2018 and on the panel of all major insurers – being fee assured and available for face-to-face as well as remote consultations.