Association of British Clinical Diabetologist (ABCD) would like to foster clinical relationships among colleagues
with the overall aim of improving patient care. Below we
introduce the ABCD committee and
their
responsibilities, achievements, and special interests.
Click here for contact details of the committee (access by
ABCD members only) |
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Committee
Member |
Responsibilities,
achievements, special interests |
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Karen Adamson (Co-opted representative for Scottish
Royal Colleges, Scottish lead for mentorship and education
coms):
Current Position: Consultant Physician,
Livingston. Associate Director of Education. Clinical Lead
Diabetes Managed Clinical Network, NHS Lothian.
Interests and current work: Medical
education. New therapies in diabetes. Service development
and quality improvement, particularly in relation to type 1
diabetes. |
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Marc Atkin:
Current Position: Consultant in Diabetes,
Endocrinology & GIM, Bath.
Interests and current work: Interests and current
work: Lead for Diabetes Service development, Inpatient lead
and Foot lead at the RUH, Bath. Research interests included
novel markers of CV disease in T2DM. My interests lie in
developing innovative ways of delivering diabetes care to
improve quality and efficiency. |
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Emma Bingham:
Current Position: Consultant and Lead for
endocrinology for Frimley Health, Surrey.
Interests and current work: I completed my research
in hypoglycaemia and brain glucose metabolism using PET
imaging with Stephanie Amiel. I am lead Endocrinologist for
Frimley Health with interests in antenatal diabetes,
diabetic foot care and transitional care and lead on many
quality improvement projects at our hospital including data
quality, IT, patient flow and supported discharge. I am a
member of the Kings pituitary MDT and a member of the KSS
STC.. |
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Ali Chakera (SpR / YDEF Representative ):
Current Position:
SpR, Exeter
Interests and current
work: I am doing my PhD
supervised by Andrew Hattersley focussed on improving the
treatment of patients with monogenic diabetes (MODY) in
pregnancy and developing a test to supersede amniocentesis
for diagnosis of foetal genotype. |
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Hamish Courtney (Northern Ireland
Representative):
Current Position: Consultant
at the Belfast Trust.
Interests and current work:
Inpatient, antenatal, foot care, DAFNE programme, pituitary,
adrenal and thyroid conditions, co-clinical lead in the
Northern Ireland Diabetes Clinical Research Network,
diabetes SpR training and education. |
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Umesh Dashora
(News Editor, BJDVD):
Current Position: Consultant, Clinical
Lead, Chairman (Medical Division), Senior Lecturer and
Deputy Sub-Dean (BSMS) at Conquest Hospital, Hastings.
Interests and current work: I am the
regional link fellow for the RCP (Edin) and am on the
executive committee of south east regional council and
southern region consultants and specialist committee of BMA.
Having completed an MA in Medical Education from Brighton
University, I am very keen to introduce some of the newly
acquired skills in education and training. I have been
working on a model diabetes prescription chart to reduce
insulin errors nationally. I am also interested in
developing national audits of the use of high strength
insulin preparations. |
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Russell Drummond (Honorary Meeting
Secretary):
Current Position: Lead consultant in
diabetes and endocrinology within the North Glasgow
Department of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Clinical
Pharmacology.
Interests and current work: Clinically I
have interests in pituitary disease, thyroid disease,
monogenic diabetes, type 1 diabetes and insulin pump
therapy. I am chair of the Greater Glasgow and Clyde Type 1
Diabetes group and an Associate Professor and year director
at the University of Glasgow medical school. Recent research
in abstract, poster and publication form can be accessed
here <insert hyperlink>. |
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Kate Fayers:
(Lead for Parity of Esteem):
Current Position: Lead
consultant at the new West Hampshire Community Diabetes
Service.
Interests and current
work: Patient
empowerment has been at the heart of my strategy for
developing an intermediate community service which has
relocated type 1 and type 2 diabetes care into the community
and is supported by a portfolio of education for patients
and healthcare professionals. My interests extend to the
wider long term conditions strategy, population risk
stratification and GP engagement as mechanisms to drive up
standards of care and reduce inequity. |
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Alison
Gallagher:
Current Position:
Consultant Diabetologist at the University Hospitals of
Leicester NHS Trust.
Interests and current
work: Focussing on patient safety and
quality of care I have led and developed a Mortality and
Morbidity process for Metabolic Medicine within Leicester
and have overseen several patient safety initiatives with
particular involvement in the inpatient administration of
critical medication. I have a sub-speciality interest in
Diabetes in Pregnancy. As a local junior doctor lead I am
involved in the recruitment and training of Specialist
Registrars within Diabetes and Endocrinology in the East
Midlands.
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Ian Gallen (Lead on Driving Issues):
Current Position: Consultant physician and
community diabetologists at Royal Berkshire Hospital
Reading.
Interests and current work: I sit on the
Medical panel of the DVLA and liaise with ABCD on driving
matters. I am member of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise
Medicine of RCP London. I have a special interest in helping
diabetic athletes, and in the care of pregnant women with
diabetes. |
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Jyothis George:
Current Position: Academic diabetologist at the
Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism
(OCDEM).
Interests and current work: My
translational research, funded by the MRC amongst others,
involves first-in-human studies of two novel peptides
(kisspeptin-10, GnIH) and their translational applications.
As clinical lead for EXSCEL - a large (14,000 patient)
multinational (>30 countries) cardiovascular outcome study -
I am learning 'mega-trial' skills under the mentorship of
Prof. Rury Holman. |
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Stella George (Workforce Co-ordinator):
Current Position: Consultant at East and
North Hertfordshire NHS Trust.
Interests and current work: I am the lead
for inpatient diabetes in our trust and our wonderful team
has won the QiC Diabetes award for our pro-active service. I
am one of the lead authors of the recently published
‘Guideline for the Use of Variable Rate Intravenous Insulin
Infusions in Medical Inpatients’ and look forward to
receiving feedback of its use in real life settings so that
we can continue to improve it. I am also the lead for our
diabetes retinopathy clinics and joint lead for our
transition service. I have been appointed as the next
Manpower Survey Coordinator for Diabetes and Endocrinology
and I am also a regional coordinating sub-dean for the
University of Cambridge students that come to the ‘ southern
hub’ of hospitals for their undergraduate clinical
attachments.
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Rob Gregory (Chairman):
Current Position:
Consultant at the
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.
Interests and current work:
My
sub-specialty interests are diabetes and pregnancy, and
management of patients with diabetes and chronic kidney
disease. I am also the diabetologist on the Leicester
Pancreatic Surgical team that is internationally-renowned
for total pancreatectomy and islet autotransplantation. I
have collaborated with Professor Joan Taylor of De Montfort
University on the development of an implantable artificial
pancreas. |
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Paul Grant (Editor, BJDVD):
Current Position:
Consultant Physician
Diabetes & Endocrinology
Interests and current work:
Following a
healthcare management degree at Brighton Business School, my
focus is increasingly on improving clinical systems and
quality of care. I am a Quality in Care (QiC) awards judge
and the New Consultant representative on the RCP Diabetes &
Endocrinology Joint Specialist Societies Committee.
I have an interest in clinical research, writing, editing
and publishing. As well as being the deputy editor of
Clinical Medicine, I am now the editor of the new ABCD
journal - the British Journal of Diabetes & Vascular Disease
(www.BJDVD.com). Twitter feed @BJDVD_Editor
Recent publications:
UK Consensus Guidance on the diagnosis and management of
inpatient hyponatraemia and SIADH
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eci.12465/pdf
Train Driving & Diabetes: keeping safety on track
http://www.practicaldiabetes.com/view/0/index.html
How much does a diabetes outpatient appointment actually
cost?
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/JHOM-01-2012-0005
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T. Hugh Jones (Chair, Academic Sub-Committee):
Current Position: Consultant at Barnsley
Hospital.
Interests and current work: I am also an
Honorary Professor of Andrology in the Department of Human
Metabolism the University of Sheffield Medical School,
Sheffield, UK and Hon. Consultant Endocrinologist at the
Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield. I am a clinical and
laboratory researcher into the role of testosterone in the
pathogenesis and treatment of type 2 diabetes and
cardiovascular disease. I have also conducted research on
the hypothalamic and paracrine control of anterior pituitary
hormone secretion, among others. I was elected to the
European Academy of Andrology and am a co-chair of the
testosterone and metabolic disorders group as part of the
International Consultation on Men’s Health and Infertility. |
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Andrew Macklin (Social Media, Chair
information and Communication Sub-Committee):
Current Position: Consultant at West Dorset.
Interests and current work:
I enjoy the
variety of challenges in DGH work and the close working
relationship with primary care and patients that exists in
the area. These have allowed a wide range of developments in
diabetes and general medicine which have improved patient
care.
Social Media Links:
Twitter;
Facebook;
Youtube;
LinkedIn.
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John A. McKnight (Scottish
Representative):
Current Position:
Honorary Professor at the
University of Edinburgh.
Interests and current work:
My research
interests include preventing diabetes, epidemiology and
remote monitoring of diabetes. I have an active interest in
improving quality of care in NHS Scotland, Chairing the
National Clinical Data Advisory Group of Healthcare
Improvement Scotland. |
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Dinesh Nagi
(Honorary General Secretary):
Current Position: Consultant at the Mid Yorkshire
NHS Trust
Interests and current work: I am currently
a member of the RCP Council representing Diabetes UK,
Association of British Clinical Diabetologist (ABCD) and
Society of Endocrinology. I am a past Secretary of the ABCD.
I also lead the Diabetes Topic Specific Research Group at
WYCLRN. I have a major interest in service development in
diabetes, having led the development and implementation of
the innovative redesign of diabetes service supporting
primary care. I am Clinical Lead and Director of Wakefield
and North Kirklees eye screening programme. I have edited a
book on exercise and sports in diabetes. |
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Dipesh Patel:
Current Position: Consultant and Honorary Senior
Lecturer at UCL
Interests and current work: General
endocrinology and inpatient or complex diabetes management.
My academic interests include lipid transport,
cardiovascular disease, mechanisms in type 2 diabetes and
renal disease and clinical trials involving novel therapies. |
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Ana Pokrajac:
Current Position: Consultant at the West Herts
Hospital Trust.
Interests and current work: My main
interest is complex diabetes and I am working to improve
management and the experience of care for patients with
diabetes and chronic kidney disease (CKD). I am a member of
the national guidelines writing group (ABCD–RA) on the
topic. Ever since my research in Endocrinology, I have been
feeling passionate about it. I lead on management of the
Thyroid Eye Disease for the Trust and I am a core member of
Thyroid Cancer MDT. Since 2014, together with colleagues, I
am a member of the organising board for Hertfordshire
Diabetes Meeting that promotes integration of all
stakeholders in diabetes in the county. "In 2015, I was
elected a National Clinical Champion by Diabetes UK." |
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Gerry Rayman (Co-opted member -
Diabetes UK,
National Inpatient Programme Lead):
Current Position:
Consultant Physician and Head of
Service at the Diabetes and Endocrine Centre and the
Diabetic Foot Clinic, Ipswich Hospitals NHS Trust.
Interests and current work:
I contribute to
research into complications of diabetes, particularly foot
complications. My interests include the application of new
technologies to diabetes care including glucose sensing and
methodologies in early detection of diabetic neuropathy. I
have also been involved in developing group education
programmes in diabetes including the DESMOND and the
Families, Adolescents and Children’s Teamwork Study
programmes (FACTS; group education for families). I have
introduced and led a number of education initiatives for
SpRs including the Foundation course and the ABCD SpR
meeting. I have been the Clinical Lead for Diabetes
Inpatient Care and foot disease at NHS Diabetes. I was the
innovator and am the lead of the National Diabetes Inpatient
Audit. I am currently Specialist Advisor to Diabetes UK and
President of the Endocrine and Diabetes Section of the Royal
Society of Medicine. I am the Clinical Lead for Diabetes
UK’s ‘Putting Feet First’ campaign and have contributed to
NICE guidelines on the diabetic foot, CG10 and CG119, and am
a member of the current NICE clinical development guideline
group on integrated foot care. |
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Rustam Rea:
Current Position: Consultant at Oxford University
Hospitals NHS Trust.
Interests and current work: I have spent
the last 7 years developing new models of integrated
diabetes care bringing together primary and secondary care.
This has involved setting up new NHS companies to deliver
integrated care across traditional boundaries. The new
partnership working results in shared clinical and financial
responsibilities across a population. My other clinical
interests include improving inpatient diabetes care through
staff education and better use of IT systems within
hospitals. |
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Aled Roberts
(Welsh Representative):
Current Position: Consultant, Clinical Lead and
Lecturer at University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff.
Interests and current work: My interests
include the management of hospital inpatients with diabetes,
and perinatal care of patients with diabetes and endocrine
disease. I am a member of the JBDS Inpatient Guideline Group
and a tutor on the Cardiff University Diabetes Diploma. |
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Tony Robinson (Honorary Treasurer):
Current Position:
Consultant and
clinical Lead at Royal United Hospitals Foundation Trust Bath.
Interests and current
work: I am the
departmental lead for retinal screening, antenatal care and
research. I have been involved with developing our
departmental database, and our own website. At present we
are negotiating with our three local CCGs a new community
diabetes service. Regionally I have helped to set up a South
West Diabetes in Pregnancy forum and we are organising our
fifth annual meeting at present. I am the Regional Specialty
Advisor for Severn Deanery area and a mentor for the ABCD
mentorship programme. |
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Susannah Rowles (Co-opted Lead for
Transitional Care):
Current Position:
Consultant,
Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, Greater Manchester.
Interests and current
work: Diversity
seems to be the best aspect of my job as I provide diabetes
care within both the hospital and community setting,
endocrinology and still do G(I)M including “on call”. We are
now into our 3rd year of delivering integrated diabetes
services across 4 hospitals and 4 CCGs. There is large
managerial element too as the clinical director for
Cardiology, Stoke and Site lead. I represent ABCD at NHS
England’s Diabetes in Young People Working Group and at the
RCP Diabetes & Endocrine Specialist Advisory committee. |
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Bob Ryder (Co-opted member, Website and
Audit, Co-opted Website Co-ordinator & Clinical Lead,
Nationwide Audits of New Diabetes Therapies):
Current Position:
Consultant,
Consultant at City Hospital, Birmingham.
Interests and current
work: A current major
interest is community diabetes and a project which won the
QIC best primary and/or community initiative in 2014. Over the years
special interests have included
photographic screening for
diabetic retinopathy – I undertook
much of the groundwork
behind the current national eye screening programme;
lactic acidosis;
symptoms of ovulation;
diabetic hypoglycaemia unawareness;
diabetic autonomic
neuropathy;
diabetic impotence;
clinical use of IT,
most recently to support Think Glucose;
treating
to target;
relative risks and benefits of pioglitazone
(especially its insufficiently recognised cardio-protective
properties). I run the
ABCD website and lead the
ABCD
nationwide audits of new therapies, most recently
establishing for this purpose an
ABCD presence on N3, the
national broadband network of the NHS. Current and imminent
audits include
exenatide qw,
dapagliflozin and
insulin degludec.
I am chief investigator for
ABCD's multi-centre endobarrier study (REVISE-Diabesity). Beyond diabetes I am best known for being principal author
of the best-selling "An Aid to the MRCP Short Cases", the
fourth edition of which is “An Aid to the MRCP PACES”
consisting of
volume 1,
volume 2 and
volume 3. |
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Thozhukat
Sathyapalan (Academic Consultant within 10 years of
Appointment):
Current Position:
Reader and
Honorary Consultant at Hull.
Interests and current
work: I lead the
Academic Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism research in
Hull. My clinical interest in diabetes includes ‘diabesity’.
In endocrinology, my subspecialty interests are reproductive
endocrinology and neuroendocrine tumours. My academic
interests is in understanding the cardiovascular risk in
insulin resistant states including obesity, polycystic ovary
syndrome and type 2 diabetes and modulating these risks with
pharmacological and nutritional interventions. |
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Dr Patrick Sharp (Ex Officio - Honorary General
Secretary 2011 - 2015, Co-opted Type 1 Lead):
Current Position:
Director for
Diabetes Solent NHS Trust.
Interests and current
work: My initial
research work was in the area of diabetes related
complications, but a more mature view is that we should be
working more actively in the earlier part of the pathway,
and certainly in the area of diabetes prevention. As a
consequence, I am currently working on a series of projects
investigating the most efficient screening modalities to
diagnose diabetes and non-diabetic hyperglycaemia in the
community. I am currently working for a community diabetes
provider, and therefore have a keen interest in models of
diabetes care. I am working with CQC in developing markers
of quality for community diabetes providers. In recognition
of the fact that education is a key component of modern
diabetes care, I am engaged in the development of web-based
educational tools for both patients with diabetes and
healthcare professionals who manage people with diabetes. |
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Alan Sinclair (Lead of ACCEA, Academic
Committee):
Current Position:
Professor of
Medicine at the University of Bedfordshire and Dean at the
Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Postgraduate Medical School.
Interests and current
work: I have produced
European guidelines on diabetes care for older people
available on
www.instituteofdiabetes.org. I am co-leading a major
EU-funded project on diabetes and frailty (MID-Frail
Project) and leading an NIHR-funded study on medication
errors in care home residents with diabetes. I am the lead
for the Older Peoples Diabetes Network which I jointly
established in 2012 with NHS Diabetes. I am currently
leading a global initiative for the IAGG and have co-chaired
an International Working Group to produce global diabetes
guidance for older people with the IDF. I founded the
Institute of Diabetes for Older People (IDOP) which is now
nationally recognised for its significant outputs in the
area of diabetes in older people.
www.instituteofdiabetes.org |
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Baldev Singh (Lead Mentorship Programme & Chair
Education and Development Sub-Committee):
Current Position: Consultant Physician & Clinical
Director of IT (Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust), Associate
Postgraduate Medical Dean (Health Education West Midlands),
National Diabetes Consultant Mentorship Programme Lead
(ABCD).
Interests and Current work:
My interests include type 1 diabetes , insulin pump
therapy, complex care diabetes , community diabetes, new
models of diabetes care, information technology in diabetes
care, the development of services and the development of
people and I have a variety of research themes linked to
these. The diabetes consultant community has a proud and
vibrant history which ABCD continues to foster. My
contribution is to help in the development of our future
consultants through the National Diabetes Mentorship
Programme and, more latterly, through a widening provision
of other learning resources and opportunities under the ABCD
banner. |
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Jonathan Valabhji (Co-opted member -
National Clinical Director Obesity & Diabetes, NHS
England):
Current Position:
National Clinical
Director for Obesity and Diabetes at NHS England, Consultant
Diabetologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and
Adjunct Professor at Imperial College London.
Interests and current
work:
My major clinical areas of interest are
Type 1 diabetes and diabetic foot disease, with a current
research focus on diabetic foot disease. As National
Clinical Director for Diabetes, I provide clinical
leadership for the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme and sit
on the NHS Prevention Board. I also work with the
Cardiovascular Strategic Clinical Networks to drive diabetes
service improvement locally and nationally and am chair of
the National Diabetes Audit Partnership Board. I am leading
a pilot project with NHS Improving Quality to address the
high premature mortality associated with diabetic foot
disease. I am working to ensure that the reconfiguration of
vascular surgical services impacts positively on those with
diabetic foot disease through working with the Vascular
Society and am co-chair of the NHS England Specialised
Commissioning Clinical Reference Group for Vascular surgery.
I am working with colleagues to investigate the higher
morbidity and mortality suffered by inpatients with diabetes
through a national project involving case notes review. I am
leading a piece of work within NHS England on improving the
transition from paediatric to adult services for young
people with diabetes. I worked with colleagues to produce
the NHS England publication “Action for Diabetes” in January
2014. I am co-chair of the NHS England Specialised
Commissioning Clinical Reference Group for Severe and
Complex Obesity. |
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Peter Winocour (Co-opted member -
Lead Renal Network,
previous Chairman - 2008 - 2011):
Current Position:
Consultant and CD East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust.
Interests and current
work: Currently I am
co-ordinating joint ABCD-Renal Association guidelines on
diabetic nephropathy. I was the diabetes lead in the
published JBS3 guidelines on CVD prevention. I am also RCPL
Secretary of the Joint Speciality Committee in Diabetes and
Endocrinology and ABCD Lead on Transitional Diabetes Care. |
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Chris Walton (Ex Officio chairman -
2011 - 2013):
Current Position:
Consultant at Hull
Interests and current
work: I work mostly on
the community interface and I chair the local diabetes
network board. I recently gave up my local role in the
retinal screening service and replaced it with the role of
the Yorkshire/Humber strategic clinical network (SCN)
clinical lead for diabetes. For the past 8 years I have been
an officer of ABCD initially as Treasurer and over the past
three years as Chair. Much of my time recently has been
taken up with the process of taking over the British Journal
of Diabetes & Vascular Disease (BJDVD) from SAGE. I intend
to continue to be active in the work of the Association and
developing BJDVD. I believe that the journal can help
further the role of UK diabetologists in developing clinical
research and provide a platform for a host of educational
opportunities. |
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