Dr Naresh Kanumilli is a General Practitioner and Community Diabetes Consultant based at Northenden Group Practice and is the current National Health Service England Clinical Network Lead for Diabetes across Greater Manchester and East Cheshire. He is also the Primary Care Research Lead for Diabetes at the Greater Manchester Clinical Research Network, National Institute for Health Research.

He has a specialist interest in diabetes and cardiology with a focus on the management of chronic conditions within the community and is actively involved in setting up and running community-based clinics in both diabetes and cardiology. He is a Diabetes UK Clinical Champion and a committee member of the Primary Care Diabetes Society, the largest organization of diabetes professionals in the UK.