Dr. Monica Kakkar, MBBS, MD (Biochemistry), is Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Associate Dean (Academics) at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bathinda, India, where she is also In-charge of the Sample Collection Centre. She has over 17 years of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching experience and more than 15 years in NABL-accredited laboratories, where she has served as Director, In-charge and Quality Manager of laboratory services. She is trained in laboratory quality management and internal audit under ISO 15189, and has completed the Advanced Course in Medical Education.

Her research interests include non-communicable diseases, inhibitors of physiological and pathological mineralization, molecular diagnostics and medical education. She has been PI or Co-PI on more than 15 projects funded by ICMR, the American Heart Association, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and BFI, with ongoing funding of about ₹6 crore. She has more than 35 peer-reviewed publications, has supervised 10 MD/MS theses, and is Co-Editor of the South Asian edition of Lippincott Illustrated Reviews: Biochemistry.

She is President of the ACCLMP Punjab Chapter (three terms) and a Central Executive Member of ACCLMP, and a life member of AMBI, ACBI, IEA and IPHA.