Janaka Karalliedde

Janaka is a clinical professor of diabetes, in the School of Cardiovascular Medicine and Metabolic Sciences, King's College London. He is an active clinician with more than 20 years of experience and specialist expertise managing patients with kidney and cardio-vascular complications related to diabetes at Guy’s and St Thomas Hospital.

He has established community based clinics in London, working with primary care colleagues focused on early identification and treatment to reduce cardiovascular and kidney complications.

Janaka is a clinician scientist with a research focus on the pathophysiology and treatment of cardio-renal complications in people with diabetes. He speaks frequently at national and international meetings and has published more than 100 articles on cardio-renal disease.

He has also led an award winning programme of work on risk stratification and clinical prioritisation [Health Service Journal award (2023), Quality in Care diabetes award (2024), Royal College of Physician excellence in patient care awards (top three 2025)] that enables early identification and clinical prioritisation of people with modifiable risk that is now embedded in routine care.