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| birth_date = 1929<br />
| birth_place = [[Multan]], [[British India]]<br />
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| death_place = [[New Delhi]], [[India]]<br />
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'''Man Mohan Singh Ahuja''' (1929 – 12 July 1998) was Indian physician and endocrinologist.<ref>[http://www.rssdi.org/1998_july-sept/obituary.pdf Obituary, Prof. M.M.S. Ahuja by N. Kochupillai in Int. J. Diab. Dev. Countries (1998), Vol. 18, pp: 95-6.]{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><br />
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He was born in 1929 in [[Multan]] in [[British India]]. He was graduated from [[Madras Medical College]] in 1952. He passed M.R.C.P. (London) in 1956, and did residency at [[Hammersmith Hospital]], London. In 1958, he joined [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences]] as Registrar in Medicine department under Prof. [[Khushwant Lal Wig|K. L. Wig]]. He was promoted as Associate Professor and later as Head of the Department of Medicine in 1969. He became Head of the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, when it was formed in 1982 until 1989. He was Dean of the Institute in 1988–1989.<br />
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He played key role in founding 'Research Society for the Study of Diabetes in India' in 1972<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rssdi.in/history.php |title=History of Research Society for Study of Diabetes in India |access-date=28 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110212123550/http://www.rssdi.in/history.php |archive-date=12 February 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and 'Hormone Foundation, India.' He was the founding editor of [[International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries]].<br />
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He was Chief editor of medical publication series on "Progress in Clinical Medicine in India". They are unique and monumental documentations of scientific work done in India on problems of Indian Medicine. Many generations of Medical students have been benefited from these volumes.<br />
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He died on 12 July 1998 in [[New Delhi]]. He was survived by his wife Dr. Meera Ahuja, daughter Sumati and son Vikas.<br />
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==Awards==<br />
* He was awarded the prestigious [[B. C. Roy Award]] for Medical Research in 1982.<br />
* Government of India awarded [[Padma Shri]] in 1991.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2014 }}</ref><br />
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