Dr. Dicky merupakan seorang dosen, klinisi dan peneliti di Divisi Endokrinologi, Metabolisme dan Diabetes, Departemen Penyakit Dalam, RSUPN Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo, Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Indonesia. Dr. Dicky saat ini mengepalai Metabolic, Cardiovascular, and Aging Research Centre, Indonesian Medical Education and Research Institute (IMERI) yang penelitiannya fokus di bidang kardiometabolik, mulai dari penelitian dasar, klinik dan epidemiologi. Dr. Dicky memfokuskan penelitiannya pada pengaruh urbanisasi terhadap peningkatan kejadian obesitas, resistensi insulin dan  diabetes mellitus. Saat ini Dr. Dicky sedang  mengembangkan penelitian dan pelayanan terkait pengembangan teknologi dan personalised medicine pada  diabetes melitus. Selain di bidang penyakit kardiometabolik, Dr Dicky juga  memiliki minat di bidang kelainan kelenjar tiroid dan hipofisis. 

Dr. Dicky  telah menghasilkan berbagai publikasi internasional serta diundang untuk menjadi pembicara pada berbagai konferensi internasional  seperti Asia Oceania Congress of Endocrinology 2018, World Congress of Internal Medicine 2018,  European Association for Southern Asian Studies Meeting 2019, 7th Annual Congress of the European Society for Translational Medicine 2020, International Congress of Obesity 2022, Korean Society for The Study of Obesity Meeting 2023.

• Increased intestinal-fatty acid binding protein in obesity-associated type 2 diabetes mellitus, Plos One, 2023 I https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0279915
• Challenges in the diagnosis of insulin resistance: Focusing on the role of HOMA-IR and Triglyceride/glucose index, Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research & Reviews, 2022 I https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1871402122001953
• Simple anthropometric measures to predict visceral adipose tissue area in middle-aged Indonesian men, Plos One, 2023 I https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0280033
• The role of Intestinal-Fatty Acid Binding Proteins and Chitinase-3-Like Protein 1 across the spectrum of dysglycemia, Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research & Reviews, 2022 I https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1871402121003866
• Cardiovascular disease prediction model for Indonesian adult population with prediabetes and diabetes mellitus: The Bogor Cohort study of Noncommunicable Diseases Risk Factors, Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research & Reviews, 2022 I https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1871402121003507

• The Indonesian Medical Education and Research Institute – Winner of Open Innovation | 2022
• Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education Republic of Indonesia – High Quality Article in The Field of Health and Medicine | 2020
• Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education Republic of Indonesia – PhD Scholarship | 2013 - 2017
• International Diabetes Federation – Training and Travel Grant | 2013