Dr. Vaishali Deshmukh, MD, DNB (General Medicine), DM (Endocrinology), FACE, is an Assistant Professor of Endocrinology at Sassoon General Hospital and BJMC, Pune, and Consultant and Head of the Endocrine Department at Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital and Deshmukh Clinic, Pune. She is the Founder and Secretary of SPHERE, with over 25 years of mentoring and teaching experience, and has served as Principal Investigator in multiple global phase 2, 3, and 4 clinical trials in diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis, and cardiovascular disease. Her interests include integrative medicine, neuro-behavioural endocrinology, and endocrinology in women.