Prof. K. K. Deepak (MBBS, MD, PhD, DSc) is currently a Visiting Professor at CBME, IITD. He is former Head of the Department of Physiology, Dean (Exams), Chief of Centre for Medical Education and Technology at AIIMS, New Delhi. He has collaborations with BARC Mumbai, NIT Jalandhar, IIT Madras and ESIC Medical College Faridabad. Earlier he worked with IIT Roorkee and AB-IIIT Gwalior.
He set up the first Autonomic Function Lab in India in 1989 for clinical services, research, education and technological developments at AIIMS-ND. This has a human database of 23000. He supervised more than 125 theses. He has been instrumental in establishing the autonomic function labs in several medical institutions in the country. His team developed cloud-based analysis of Heart Rate Variability (cHRV) with Digital India Corporation. In 2000 he established India’s first Vascular function lab in the Department of Physiology at AIIMS-ND which is contributing in R & D. Recently in 2023 he established first formal Biofeedback Clinic at AIIMS-ND.
He started Space Physiology lab at AIIMS in 2013 and continue to do R & D in this area. He filed a patent for a gravitational loading body gear "pro-gravity body gear" in 2016, which was published in 2018. This pro-gravity body gear was successfully utilized in earth-based experiments on microgravity. Prof. Deepak is also inventor in six more patents related to isometric exercise, human muscular fatigue recording, endurance meter for rodents, and other space physiology-related innovations. In the beginning of his career, he developed a physical blood pressure simulation model which was used in NASA experiments.
He is formally trained in Educational Technology at Dundee Institute of Technology, Scotland in 1989. He served as visiting Professor at UCSD USA during 2017-2019.
He has published over 225 peer reviewed research papers (4500+ citations) with H index of 36. He has received several awards including highest awards of Physiology Associations (APPI & PSI) and NAMS fellowship in 2015.